The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-09-09

dsrtook TO rake the upright women Of
their acquaintance the crednlons ehaper-
ones Of their eoncubfnss.
Col. Brsckinrissge coafesses that he DID
rot do IL be wonid be shot: well be de-
served to b shot for doing II. and be
would hare been sho. II Gov. Birkbnrn
had been alive. The hopeless feature Of
BreckinrIdge's case Is. not that he yielded
TO temptation ana fell. bat that be refused
% carry bis cross, aud proposed that de-
cent society snd his contemHsd and re-
pudistsd coucubsne should carry Il Breek-
iarsdge shoEs bis brutal cynicisn In bis
assumption that the people Of his district
have no mere moral sensibilisy than him
self: that they are wiling to take him
with al his hypocrisy. msndacisy and In
escsney aud send him back % congress
because he has brains A pltifnl plea,
sursgy: for nobody ever denied brains TO
Beeixsbub or snbtiety 10 bis Satanic ma
jssty.
BreckinridEe makes the same mistake
that very bad and very bright men fire.
qusntIy make; he assumes that nobody
save foos can be really better than him
self. There 10 where we think Breckin-
ridge makes bis mistake; he thinks be-
cause fashionable women like Mrs.
Cuthbert Bullitt plead for him that he
will be reelected. bat be forgets that Mrs.
Builitt's plea only covers his libertinage;
1t does not cover his chronic Hypocrisy,
msndacity and utter mssnness in trying
20 screen his eoncnbines behind the
sheltering wings OF his dead wifs's up
right woman friends. Many coarse
minded man Of the werld would seorn
such q disgusting act OF social fraud; be
would say; II have sinned; I will shout
der my own sin and its consequences ike
& man: I win not dump my dirty load on
the doorstep Of my decent woman friends
and dsceitfully persuade them to as
sumo IL"
Col. Breckenridge will find cut that
many q man Of tho world in Kentucky,
who would extenuate his conjugal In
fidelity. will vote against him because be
deliberately unloaded his eoncubines upon
decent society; be would not or could not
carry his cross. so he tried 10 make good
society carry 1t for him: this was the act
OF q coward and q man without q spark Of
q gentleman In bis composition. Breckin-
ridge ought 20 run for public Office in that
portion OF England where English society
is thus described by an English satirist:
nj fhsr. ~s-. hsxvsas I.uk "a Lam
With shouts mystsriously obscene;
And Squeezing yeuths cried "DamnF'
And Dragged OF callow sins with "oh.
II my mamma could only know
How bold, how bad. / aml'
In contrast with the brutal cynicism Of
Breckinridge note the sensibility of Prince
Bismarck. who, after wild life at college,
never was assailed by scandal. except
when be had his picture taken with that
of the lannon's singer Lucca- The moment
this picture appeared Bismarck from all
his old Lutheran friends in Germany re-
csived letters of warning. regret and ex-
hortation, which soon moved him to have
the supply Of offending pictures cut off
short IF i had foreseen for an instant
how much pain this trivial incident would
cause my many true friends" he wrote to
Pastor Andre in reply 10 q moral lecture
from him, II should have got myself out
of the cameras range quickly enough"
Never again. Bismarck assured his friends.
would he let his picture be taken with q
woman. ami he has kept his word. Most
of the Lucca- Bismarck photographs were
bought mp and destroyed. Today hardly
dozen Of them could be found the world
over