The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-14
MASTERLY MUDSLINCINC.
Breckenridge Makes a Coarse Attack
on MI. Owens and His Friends.

The Aged Colonel Addresses About
400 People, and Closes His Canvass
With a Bitter Assault Upon Those
Who Are Opposing Him, and Makes
a Defense of the Ladies Who Are
Supporting His Candidacy.
Lexington, KY. Sept. 13.-This after
noon at Fort Springs, this county, Col
Breckenridge made his farewell county
speech to over 400 people, forty two of
whom were ladies. He began in a con-
ciliatory manner, but before his speech Of
one hour and a half was ended he in
dulged in most bitter personalities.
He wound up his remarks in a perora-
tion in which he pleaded with the voters
not to indorse the candidate from Scott
county, (Owens) but to vote for him on
Saturday. cat the close of the canvass"
he said, II want to enter my protest
against the constant, infamous attacks
on the good people who have supported
me. The candidate from Scott has in
every part of the district said in sub
stance that no man could afford in
the presence of his mother or his wife, or
his sister, to permit any woman who
would support me to pin a buttonhole
bouquet on the lapel of his coat This
atrocious insinuation has been made
when he knew that thousands of good
women attended my meetings and de-
sired my reelection. 1t was an insult to
every woman in the district. 1t was
characteristic of his nature and
n hA 7ran1
result of his vocation and of
his private association, and those who
have supported him have carried on the
canvass upon the campaign. The Louis
vile Times, owned by a gang of black
mailers wv N. Haldeman of the Courier
Journal) and edited by hireling, Emmett
Logan, who is constitutionally coward
and an habitual liar, have in numerous
articles made the same intimation, and in
the issue of Sept. IL says the virtuous
and noble women of the Ashland district
are in the fight against BrecKinridge. He
who charges that the women of this dis
trict who are for me are unchaste and
ignoble puts himself beyond the pale of
civilized association, and the owners of a
| paper who print it become eternally infa-
nous. There are no words to express the
unutterable brutality of an editor or
! owner of paper who deliberately prints
| and makes money out of such coarse, vul
| gar and brutal statements.
! Every voter who supports MIR. Owens
| practically approves this brutal and in
| famous method of cauvassing. 1t has not
been denounced by Prof McGarvey, Mr..
Matthews, or such preachers; they have
| practically approved it; they stand
| sponsor for him and his canvass. Now
| denounce as unutterably atrocious all
| these and similar utterances. They are
a crime against society, against peace
| against womanhoOd, against virtue. They
| who utter such sentiments ought to be
| driven out of the country. He who utters
| them not unnaturally goes to the
sewer for his material for canvass and
has DO pleasure in any mode of argument
| that is not low, obscene and malignant
Tonight Col. Breckenridge gave out an
interview, in which he shows affidavits
that his opponent, w. G. Owens, was
gambler in Chicago last year and in
tended to stay there. He also prints an
affidavit showing that Owens, in com
pany with a woman, was put out of a
Louisville hotel. These charges, coming
against Owens at this late date, will pre-
vent Owens from replying.