Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-05-10
BRECKENRIDGE AND THE CHURCH.

He ConEesses His Sins and Pleads With
the Pastor and Officials tor Forgiveness
-watterson's Attack Creates Surprise.
New York Sun special.
LEXINGTON, KY, May Cat the
solicitation of prominent man in the
Presbyterian Church, Colonel Breckin-
ridge yesterday confessed his sins before
the officers and pastor of Mt. Horeb
Presbyterian Church Of this place,
which was founded by his father, Robert
j. Breckinridge.
He kept back nothing from the repre-
sentativos of the church and asked for
giveness Of his sins. The officers will
consider the matter for some time before
any action will be taken. 1t had been
reported that Colonel Breckenridge had
been expelled from the church, but the
report was not true.
The officers of the Confederate Vet
eran Association tomorrow will make a
public denial of desire upon the part of
the association as such to participate in
the present Congress campaign.
THE "ooURIER-JouRSAL's" ATTACK.
LOUISVILLE, May 6.-The Courier
Journal, which has heretofore main
tanned position of silence regarding
the case of Congressman w. G. p.
Breckenridge, since the beginning of the
Pollard scandal, breaks silence in an
editorial article to-day, declaring that
Colonel Breckinridge should be beaten
for denomination. The paper says:
"The situation in the Ashland district,
unfortunate as it is unprecedented,
makes it imperative that every journal
which has the good of the party at
heart, which cherishes the honor of its
State, and which appreciates its obliga-
tions to society, shall protest with all its
power against the recollection to Con
gress of Colonel w. g. p. Breckinridge.
"We do not undcrrate what he has
done for his party and the cause of tariff
reform in the past. But even if his
ability for future usefulness were not
destroyed by tho miserable scandal
which has darkened his name, the party
could not afford to accept his services at
the price it would be forced to pay.
st is idle to attempt to obscure the
issue with sophistical distinction be-
tween Col. Breckinridge's public and
private life. The case has gone far be-
yond the possibility of that.
"The question simply is, do the people
of Kentucky propose to send as a repre-
sentative to Congress the man whom
Col. Breckenridge confessed himself to
be in his testimony before Washington
jury? 1t is question which transcends
the limits of the Ashland district, and Of
Kentucky itself.
"It is question in which the people
of the entire nation are deeply inter
ested. That part of his speech yester-
day devoted to the scandal in which he
has figured were better passed over in
pity. 1t is a strange exhibition of mar
velous effrontery, wretchcd taste, and
mentally and morally oblique casu-
istry."
A dispatch from Lexington tonight
says that the editorial. article in this
mornings C0urier-Jourtdl calling for
the retirement of Colonel Breckenridge
made sensation among the politicians
there, and Colonel Breckinridge de-
clinGd to make any statement regarding
it. He will answer it at Paris. AS this
is the first time the Courier Journal has
ever interfered in party fight it is ex-
pected to have great weight.
Col. Breckenridge will refuse to divide
time with his opponent, i. L. Settle, to-
morrow at Paris, but Settle declares he
will speak anyhow.
The Rev. II. G. Morrison, State Con-
ference evangelist for the NJ. L. Church
South, tonight declared that church
people ought to sec to it that Breckin-
ridge is defeated. Two Baptist clegymen
and one Presbyterian minister referred
to the matter in their sermons, and said
that his repentance should be accepted.