Blue-grass blade., 1894-04-01

used the prestige of his name and fame
and family to combat the principles OF
Rationalism; notedly in the case o.
Briggs Now is an opportunity for us
who call ourselves Rationalists to show
to the world what we mean.
The man who calls himself Rational
ist now, and yet will fall in with the ig.
norant Christian hoodlum sentiment
that is reflected by such a paper
as the Lexington Daily Press, that
tries to crush poor and fatherless
young woman to save burned old grey
headed hypocrite, whose life, for more
than a quarter of a centuary, has been
one unbroken lie, and with this hoodlum
gang will vote for Billy Breckinridge,
should keep his mouth shut after the elec-
ton, when he hears men of more courage
deploring the ignorance and supersti-
ton of the current Christianity, or the
Christianity of any age. feel no dis
position to gloat over the fact that Breck-
inridge has been so signally brought to
grief, and that in an intellectual tilt a
young woman has been able to lay the
great champion of tariff reform across
her knees and link into his exposed rear
with her slipper until he has used his
'silver tongue" to beg like cringing
coward.
The man who sought, and gained, the
bubble reputation at the cannon's mouth,
now pleads through his attorney, and
law-partner, Shelby, that he promised to
marry this woman because he was afraid
of her pop" and actually claims that
the woman seduced him. In the history
of civilization there has never been any
thing that approached this. Beecher
and Parnell have figured in scandals
allied in nature to this; but you may add
to these the "bacarat" scandal of the
Prince of Wales, and the Senator Sprague
case, and the CarstangShaw case, and
the half dozen others in American his
tory, and the aggregation does not ap-
proach in atrocity and infamy the indi-
vidual exploits of Billy Brechinridge.
When Eve ate the apple Adam ran his
hand down in his breeches pocket, pulled
out his Barlow knife, cut him off a
chunk and chawed it, and said, like a
man, damned if he would not rather go
to hell with his wife than to heaven
without her; and that sentiment from
then down until the time that Breckin-
ridge came on the stage in this role, has
been the prevailing one among men who
were worthy to be called men. But as
Raleigh threw his cloak into the mud
for the Queen to walk on, so has this
man Breckinridge, who has spent great
part of his life in "bloviating" about
Southern chivalry," been willing to
throw into the mud, and crush under
his remorseless heel, this young woman
whom he seduced, and of whose children
he became the father, while he had a
devoted living wife, in order that his
dainty Presbyterian feet, elected" from
al eternity to wen->ssle golden slippers
in the New Jerusalem, might be saved
from the communicating soil of earth.
| What then shall we say of Bill" Owens?
His biography is short and sweet, but
to the point. He is professional gam
bier; a man who is sufficiently cold
blooded and deliberate to refrain from
drinking liquor in order that he might
win the money of those with whom he
plays cards. This is notoriously true,
and is commonly said among his friends
who are now working for his nomination,
among whom is Editor Garrett of the
Georgetown Enterprise. He is a man
who scoots out when the grand jury Is
going to convene, and wants testimony
| about gamblers.
have heard it said of him that he is an
inhdel. l do not know about it. If he
is and has the manhood to say so,
would honor him for it, and he would
spike my batteries. He will play the
| Christians for their votes just as much as
Billy Breckinridge would.
| Now what shall we say of Balm? Born
poor man in your midst, he has by in
dustry and honestly gotten him beauti-
fel home in this city, and is just as clean
as Billy Breckenridge is unclean.
He is known and loved as man and
an orator, from ocean to ocean, and has
been heard by ten times as many people
as have heard Breckinridge and Owens
together.
While those two men were bringing
upon Kentucky the disgraceful reputa-
ton that it has, Balm has heroically
labored to counteract this reputation,
and has stood among those at the very
head of the national councils of the Pro-
hibition party. A more knighly man never
drew the breath of life. While he has
the substantial and genuine qualities of
| a man, he has among women and among
men, a courtliness of address, SHdvikeT
in mOdO worthy of Chesterfield, and his
equal in all the highest and grandest
essential elements of a Congressman,
never went from Kentucky to Washing
ton.
What is Democracy? 1t is an effete
imbecility i'll intellect, and rottenness
i'll morals the stencil of which offends
high heaven, and the doom of which is
even now signed and sealed.
What is Republicanism! 1t is worse
than highway robbery. 1t has robbed
the treasury of the United States Just as
literally and truly as Honest" Dick Tate
robbed the treasury of Kentucky, and,
worse than Tate, it has used this money
to corrupt, under the guise of pensions,
the elective franchise for partisan pur-
poses.
What is Prohibition? 1t is, in its
moral aspects, the grandest political or
ganizatiOn that the world ever saw, and
in its financial aspects it is, by far, the
wisest embodyment of political reforms
that has been proposed. There is moth
ing sectional, sexual or racial about it,
The points of the compass do not direct
its movements, and geographical lines
no not bound its labors. The world is
its sphere and humanity is its people
Before the law, as well as in the home,
II not only puts woman as the peer of
man, but makes her the superior, if any
difference. 1t claims for the black man
the same rights as for the white, and
will take its presidential candidates from
the South just as soon as from the North
which neither of the other parties will
dare to do-and it asks no patronage for
a Federal soldier that it would not ask
for a Confederate soldieI
| am an infdel, open, avowed, defiant.
l ask no honor and no emolument for
myself have no interest at staksS -
the good of my fellow men. IT
not the remotest chance that
make any money out of this;
other hand it will cost me someth.