Blue-grass blade., 1894-04-01
"OUR JOE"
Jines Moody, CircuIates "Tem-
perance' tracts, and makes
a fool Of Himself generally.

:ntil this time the most distin
u whisky guzzler i'll America has
sned "Gideon's band" under the preach
x of the peripatetic theological baSa-
zelle, Moody, and is occupying the time
for which he is drawing pay United
States Senator. by circulating among his
brother Senators tracts, the titles of
which are Strong drink; or the temper
ance song i'll Gods word" Happy
Nancy's Secret" The Song OF the Spar
row, and The Little PilgrarI." Truly
a change has come over the dreams of
Joseph. If, one year ago. a United States
Senator had dared TO intimate of Joe
Blackburn that the day would come
when he would 90 back OH Kentucky
whisky, the great staple to which he
owes his elevation, and by which he
has thousand times been elevated" he
would have caught him by the ear, as he
did little Chandler, and yanked him out
of the back door of the capitol, with a
kick that would have obviated the
necessity of the offending Senator's do
ing any walking in order to get down
the steps.
But sich is life IT. between the cut
tings up of Billy Breckinridge and Joe
Blackburn. the whole burned State of
Kentucky has not gone crazy, then my
head is Just so out of fix that they NAV
put me i'll the lunatic asylum, and | will
waive the usual forrality of the writ dc
knNafidO iRqHirtHdO.
Whether some of the "sour mash that
Joseph has imbibed has gone wrong
with him and the first part of it has
soured on his stomach and the last part
of ii has mashed on Moody and Joseph
has lost his intellectual perpendicular,
or whether it's scheme for fixing his
Senatorial fences when there are so many
after his golden slippers, who NAV work
the whisky gag on him, i'll these DAYS
when society is being led astray by this
Prohibition hallucination, or whether
Joe is trying under the cloak of religion
to shirk the responsibility of having to
kill Billy Breckinridge, as it seemed
likely he would have TO do under his old
code, do not know; but his case is a
striking illustration of the aphorism
that lit is the unexpected that happens
Kentucky is nothing if not sensational.
Even little Brother John Shelby. whose
lamb-like docility, OH the streets of Lex
ington, always suggests To me that he
ought to have. around his neck, blue
ribbon with bell OH it. goes to Wash
ington. and, like a living travesty OH
Corbett, dashes his little fist that has
about the consistency Of a mush poul-
tice, into the face of all attorney at Wash
ington, where Brother Shelby had gone
on the principle that
Everywhere that Billy went
The lamb was sure to 90"
If Joe Blackburn intends merely to let
up on whisky, | am glad to hear it, and
think it is time he was doing so but it
iS cert aiulx- NJ, ipStanc.a pf a1
self-conceit in him, to think it a matter
of such national importance that the
United States must thus be so signally
apprised of his purpose. If, however he
proposes to go back on the Democratic
party, that pledges itself, in its national
platform, not to do anything against the
liquor interest, then Senator Zoe. if lie
acts up to the advanced thought on that
line, must turn Prohibitionist; for it has
been demonstrated that Temperance
s OH saloon-keeper have just the
Seffect as singing psalms to dead
horse. If Brother Blackburn wants &c
cast i'll his lot with us Prohibitionsts. all
he has to do is to tip ME wink, and
will see that he gets there, with 10 ad
mission fee, no goat riding or dark Ian
tern busines about it.
Rev. Alexander Kent learned Wash
ington divine has lately blasted Mood,
as an ignoramus; but if in these day.
when the most fundamental claims of tn.
Christian religion are being knocked bach
and forth with as much sang fJoid ant
irreverence as if they were shuttle
''our Joe" has discovered some new
potency in the logic of Mr. Moody, Ii,
owes ii to the world to get into the pul
pit or on the lecture stand, and to keel
off the stump" until the cultivated
part of the world, that is going to hel
i'll a hand-gallop, by the infdel route, ha
been given the full benefit of his reli
gious experience.
To be consistent with my pretention
! ought to be the last man in the worl,
to throw anything in the way of Senate
Blackburn's earnest purpose of reform
but if he is getting up this simply 70
the purpose sensation, though am no
in the habit of appealing to Diety, in tn
name of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
and especially of his constituency, an,
for the sake of the peace and quiet wlIicl
we all so much need, beg of him, 70
Gods sake, to let up on us until we ge
over the Billy Breckenridge racket, AM
have q little time to rest