Blue-grass blade., 1894-05-20
ANTI-BRECKINRIDCE
Meeting-A part Of the Lexington
transcripts report Of Opera House
Proceedings.

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ica, or the world, has there been SO great
and so grand an aggregation of the in
telligence and morals of any country, to
protest against the immortality of any
one man, as that which met at the Lex
ington Opera house, Monday, May I4th,
to express, in the most unqualified
terms, its deep detestation, condemna-
tion and reputation of the Dishonora-
BILE William Campbell Preston Breckin-
ridge, liar. libertine and dead-beat.
This is not language that use simply
because the man has so degraded him
self as to license any man to speak, with
impunity, almost any evil of him, but of
the greater two of these charges he
stands guilty under his own oath, and
that he is a man who will not pay his
debts promptly, if at all, is largely known
in business circles.
am by no means certain, nor have l
been, from the beginning of his Pollard
exposure, that murder, or barfieebS
eriminfs in murder, does not properly
belong in the long list of his crimes, and
that murder of the foulest and blackest
dye-the infanticide of his own illicitly
begotten progeny. That children were
born to this animal union is, by them
admitted. There were several of these
children, and children of their kind al
ways live, in spite of the devil and the
doctors, if they have half a chance.
That the parents of these children were
of unusual bodily vigor suppose no ex-
pert in America is prepared to deny,
and yet that any of them lived beyond
the short span of early infancy nobody
knows. A man who is capable of cloak
ing his crimes in religious hypocrisy as
Breckinridge has done, is capable of any
crime, and he and his paramour should
be arrested and examined and be made
to show by the proper certificates of
physicians or acoucheurs that those
children died from natural and unavoid
able causes.
Judge Durham has been, by some, adj
versely criticised because in his speech
before that assembly. he alluded to
Breckinridge as "whoremonger"
honor the grand old man, because he is
not afraid to talk Saxon to those who are
proud of their Saxon blood. Billy Breck-
inridge is not the kind of man to be
handled with sugar tongs and handed
around on a rose leaf, as Fannie Fern"
said of N. P. Willis. The crimes of such
men as Breckinridge are, in these days
of journalistic prudery so sugar-coated
with French terms and Latin technicali-
ties that the yeomanry of the land
scarcely know with what he is charged.
The New Testament says Whore
mongers and adulterers God will Judge"
and when degenerate clergy, bedecked
and bedizened with all the gew-gaw,
clap-trap and ginger bread tinselry of
modern ecclesiasticism, becomes too
fnical to quote the King James version
of the New Testament, l who only en-
dorse its plain, blunt, honest. home
spun morals, am glad that a man like
Judge Durham, though once himself in
the Congress of the United States, can
now come to the front from the secular
walks of life, and blast this grey headed
hypocrite in the language that the En-
lish New Testament has furnished for
that purpose.
The immense audience that filled
every available foot in the Opera House
many being unable to get in-had in
it but little if any of that namby pam
by burned stuff that they call the elite
and the -four hundred of Lexington
They, and the machine politicians, and
the ward bummers, and the hoodlums
we're, happily distinguished by their alb
sence. The people who composed the
audience were the very pick and choice
of the intellect and morals of the Blue
Grass of Kentucky; and they were there
without regard to politics or religion l
as secretary, holding up the heather
end of it and receiving even more thar
Christian speakers.
The speech of Judge Durham, intrin
sically strong, gains additional force from
1x,e 1.,n L..
grand and pure life as he goes in anC
out among us, in his daily walk and con
versation, and his recital of his expert
ence that they were the Iron tongues,
and not the "silver tongues" that die
the good in the Congressional affairs O
the nation, will rob this community o
hangs on "silver tongue" when it i.
wagged in brass cheek and an irOr
jaw.
The letter of Judge Morton, which
felt honOred even to have the privileg,
of reading to that assembly, marks hin
prominently among the men of tru,
steel in our state.
We all know that it is to the interes
of politician, in this state, to stand b,
the ring, but Judge Morton's letter ha
placed him, in the estimation of our bes
people, far ahead of any ring in this, O
any other State.
He had been a brave companion il
arms with Breckinridge, and in common
with all the rest of us, appreciated, ant
was proud of his distinguished genius
but Judge Morton saw, as every man o
sense must see, that the fact of Breckin
ridges genius is all the greater reason
why he should not be allowed to cast tn,
Upas shadow of his influence upon thi
devoted land
The words of Rev. ]. w. McGarvey
the young David-the little giant cham
pion of Lexingtons morals were clear
cut, concise, forcible, moderate and con
servative though reasoned with the AT
tic salt" and Irish wit, that his name an,
Hibernian extraction warrant. In thi
connection, it is proper to say that tn
only hiatus in the enjoyment Of the oc
casion was that Judge Mulligan. tn
prince of Irish wits, was not present, o
at least did not answer to the perfeC
clamor of calls for him to come to tn
stage and give us sample of his dis
tinguished aversion to Breckenridge.
Prof. Rucker, modest as he always is
was simply forced on to the stage an
forced to speak, and he did this with tn
force and beauty that distinguish al
his efforts i'll that line; and want
remembered, to the credit of Prohibition
that two out of three speakers of the oc
casion, McGarvey and Rucker, are me-
who have distinguished themselves il
Prohibition work.
My purpose in the carrying out of tn
program of the evening was to hav
Judge Mulligan close the speeches of tn
day, and think that it was mistake @
the honorable chairman, w. B. Hawkins
that Judge Mulligan was not heard from
believe that meeting was the politi
cal death knell of Breckinridge
At 2:Io o'clock Rev. X. +. Mathew
stepped to the front of the stage an
stated that. as Judge Morton was com
PEELED to be absent, he nominated MI
w. b. Hawkins for Chairman. His mC
ton was quickly seconded, and MI
HouL;pc x.,ac aI.cfaI chairman Th