The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-28
HIS wIFE's SISTER.
MISS Desha believes Kentuckians
Will Not Elect Breckinridge.
Louisville Courier-Journal

Louisville Courier-JournaL.
Early in the campaign in the Ashland
known to her friends her Emphatic opin,
ion concerning his candidacy. She was.
naturally. bitterly opposed to IL.
DeesRba 70 the present mt n nInei however, Miss
will be remembered that during The ufe
OF her sister. she made her home with Col.
Breckinridge's family; that is. until the
Congressman's relations with Miss Pollard
became notorious. when she left his roof.
Last night the managing editor OF the
Courier-Journal received from Miss Desha
the publication of the statement given be-
low. which she addresses ITO the men and
That the appeal OF the sister OF the dead
wife of Colonel Breckenridge viii be one
paign goes without saying. That it will
be more. CARRYING with it a powerful in
brother-in-law, is equally evident.
The statement is as follows:
To the Men and Women OF the Bluegrass:
| have hesitated for many days before
preiudices OF Kentucky men and their
opinion that If a woman lifts her voice
gains n on the established order Of iniquity"
Is so grave that l venture even at the
FISK Of Shocking my friends to tell You
70 know, knowing we'll you will never
hear them from Kentucky men who have
keep silence either from the feeling OF
loyalty. which is much stronger in man
that makes them wondrous kind
That Colonel Breckenridge will be re-
turned to Congress has never for one mo-
of it is an insult to the State, whose boast
mas been that. her "men were brave and
Breckenridge you would accept his and
Colonel Thompson's platform-that all men
are are nberf1nes. the II all Wom the men csn6 Of th be STATE
and your vote for him would be an an
nouncement to the world of the unchastity
1 am not troubled about his reelection.
but L am afraid that the politicians will
send some one like unto him. II they sue
coed in re~nominating him or some other
immoral man will the reputable portion OF
the community unite on a man. regardless
OF politics, who can lift the soiled banner
Of the Ashland district. cleanse its stains
by a pure life, and bear it with such honor
that We, who live in Washington and have
been deeply Inundated, may again be able
tuckians."
The plain truth is that of all the immoral
delegations In Congress that Of Kentucky
has the reputation Of being the worst.
With the Taulbee and Breckenridge scan
dals and the low obscenity of Thompson.
you will not wonder at il. What we need
from the Ashland district is a clean, pure
man, with brains enough to know that Il is
a mans actions and not his religious twad-
die thai make for righteousness, and not
brains enough 10 fool a whole community
for half a century into thinking him a.
I'LL LII u SChIACAhAdAAs vie hG II III
rectly the reverse. See to II, If you must
have ALTERATION on your banners. that in
stead of "Breckinridge and Brains you
have a name that will go well with NOR
atty.
To the women of the Bluegrass 1 give
my grateful thanks that they have remem-
bered my sister-her faithful, beautiful life
and have showed by every means in their
power their appreciation of il, and their de-
testation of the man who dishonored her
while living. who has desecrated her men,
DRY and disgraced her children.
To the confederate veterans / would say
living she never forgot you In persecu-
ton, in trial, in exile her own people were
always remembered. You passed resolu-
tons of respect when she died and followed
her to the grave with almost the honors
given to a soldier-show that your profess
tations were sincere by retiring to private
life the hal who has committed the UNI
pardonable sin against her, and by send
ing to Congress a respectable. reputable.
honest man, to lift Kentucky-the State she
loved so well-back to its proud place
among its sister States.
With pride in Kentucky's past, with
shame and confusion that even one man
is left within her borders who Is willing to
see her Inundated, with an abiding trust
in the final triumph of law and order. de-
cency and morality in her midst, / am
MARY DESHA.
A citizen of the Ashland district Of Ken
lucky.