The Washington times., 1894-04-17
BRECKINRIDGIANA.

No journal can do its duty, says the Courier
markable speech of Col. Phil Thompson, one
of the attorneysin the Pollard case. We know
Of no speech made under circumstances OF
such publicity that Is in so many respects dis
creditable. That Col Thompson chose to
give it tone which could have hardly been
lower and to put it in words which could have
scarcely been coarser are matters within the
purview OF his own taste. But that he chose
to base it on a conception Of morals and phil
osophy as vicious as 1t is false is not only a
legitimate but an imperative subject for public
condemnation. Silence from manly men is
out of the question when speaker arises in
courtroom into which run the wires of every
telegraph line in the land, and protesting him
self to be representative OF men declares that
all men are libertines; that civilization il
naught but q lie; that purity is a myth; that
virtue is a mockery; that manhood is simply
lust.
That there are far too many men who are
rec creant TO duty and decency no one will
deny; that there are many whose lives fair on
the exterior, are in reality as foul as any
whose corruption has been exposed every one
knows; but when the deliberate assertion is
made that all men are roues, whose crime
y,
Mortified protest will go up from the homes
of America. where coniugal love and loyalty
have thousands and thousands of sacred al
tars and from as many thousands Of men
whose lives are manly and wholesome, be-
cause deep in their hearts is that ennobling
reverence for true womanhood which is the
inspiration and sustenance OF true manhood,
and as long as that exists such charges as
those made by Col. Thompson cannot be other
than ISLANDERS.
Breckinridge's majority in the last Congress
election, says the New York Sun, was about
aggressive campaign" for a denomination
and reelection to Congress- which he now in
tends to begin in the Seventh district Of Ken
lucky, will be interesting to watch. Will he
make it on tariff reform? viii he run on the
income tax? Perhaps it will be a campaign
of education, designed to teach the decent
Democrats Of Bourbon, Fayette, Franklin,
Henry, Oldham, Owen, Scott and Woodford
counties that they owe vindication at the
polls to the man who testified
~ lived only four squares away on the same
street j took supper with my family Then
walked back TO Sarah Guess's, in less than an
hour, and found the plaintiff in the house"
viii Hon. William Campbell Preston
Breck1nrldge eStaDllSn MS pOltlcal mead
quarters at Sarah Guess's. 1t is at a con-
venient distance from his home.
When my typewriter's chum came in at 6
last evening to go home with her. says
writer in the New York Press, noticed that
the girl had something special on her mind.
Presently she drew her friend aside and told
her in stage whisper how the men in her
oflice-she is employed, it appears, in a mer-
camille agency where there are about fifty
men and only two women-acted when the
Pollard -Breckinridge verdict was reported at
O'Clock Saturday evening. Her cheeks got
quite red and her eyes snapped as she ex-
citedly told her friend that when the news
paper extra came in and the $4,000 verdict
was announced one of the men threw up his
arms and cried, .Greatr' The next one
wanted TO know what was great. and in
minute "every man in the Office was shaking
hands with himself like pay day" my type
writer said. "Oh, Mamie. you ought 10 have
seen them. They looked really pleased
and. she added refiectively. Maybe men
aren't SO bad, after all. What do you think,
Mamie?"
Now, what 1 want to know is, what kind Of
people does my typewriter and yours and
all the rest OF the faithful little band 20
around thinking that you and l are? Do
women really believe that men are all bad
ana all alike? | was saddened by this un-
conscious revelation that an innocent little
woman who works with and among men
should have imagined that man like Breck-
inridge would find secret sympathy among
them.