The morning call., 1894-05-15
1T HAS HURT HIM.
Women Making War
Upon Breckenridge.
APPEAL TO THE VOTERS
To Save the District From Last
ing Disgrace.
MoRTEN COULD NOT PRESIDE.
Senator 10 Blackburn Has Been
Asked to Come Home and
Make a Fight.

LEXINGTON. May 1.-THE people of
Lexington and Fayette County, including
several hundred ladies, turned out to-day
to the anti-Breckinridge meeting at the
opera-house. The meeting from a stand
point of morality was tremendous sue
cess. The opera-hOuse was filled and 500
people were turned away. Professor j.
W. McGarvey, an eminent minister of the
Christian Church. was the first speaker. and
he showed Colonel Breckenridge up in no
favorble light. He held that it would be a
disgrace to the district. to the Stale and to
the country to return such man to Con-
gress, and closed his speech with an appeal
TO The young men to vote against him.
The other speaker was Judge NJ. j, Dur
ham, who denied that Colonel Breckinridge
was the only man in the district who could
represent it in Congress- The speeches
were both wei! received and made good
impression.
Resolutions were adopted denouncing
Breckinrdge's morals and calling on the
people Of the district to rise up in their
might and vote against the sllver-tonsued
persuader. But when Harry c. Clay got
up and offered a resolution, not only de-
nouncing Breckinrdge's morals but ask
ing that Senator j. S. Blackburn be asked
to obtain leave of absence from the Senate
and that he come home and from the ros-
trum to speak against Breckenridge. the au-
dence went wild. The cheering was deaf
enlng, and iI was plain to any observer
til at The BreckiDridge boom, started by
the silver-tongued himself a little moro
than a week ago. was badly strained.
The following. are the women's resolu-
tions adopted:
WHEREAS, w. g. p. Breckenridge has an.
nounced himself as a candidate for eelecton
TO Congress from Ashland district, notwith-
standing his confession under oath OK hagrans
and habitual RIGHTEOUSNESS ana hypocrisy.
Therefore be it
Resolve d, First-That we, the women of Lex
ington ana Fayette counties, do solemDly pro-
test against his denomination as the represen-
tatiye of his district,
Second-We believe that such an Endorsement
of w. C. P. Breckinridge at the polls would be
a disgrace to Kent ucky, a shame upon man.
hood, an insult to womanhood sinful exam
pie to youth and menace to both society and
the home
Third-We earnestly implore our fathers,
husbands and brothers to wipe ont the stain
that W. c. T. Breckenridge has brought on The
fair name OF the Ashland district.
The resolutions of the men are similar,
and they adopted one recommending the
calling of such meetings by ladies in every
county in the district.
Judge Jerry r. Morten. who could mot
be present to preside, sent a letter in
which he stated that in his opinion the
denomination OF Colonel Breckinridge
would be detrimental to the best interests
OF Ashland district, TO the country and to
the Democratic party of the nation. The
reading ELECTED much applause. The
meeting was purely antj-Breckinridge.
Not word was said in favor of his com.
petitors.
CHICAGO. May IA The board Of man
ayers of the Union League Club this after
noon unanimously voted to expel Con-
gresham Breckenridge from the roll of
honorary mem bershiD.
Mr.. Breckenridge will be notified al once
of the action of the club and will be given
ten days to make a defense.