The herald., 1894-09-21
BoHNEo For BRECKENRIDGE.

The late primary election OF the Dem
ocratic party in the Ashland district OF
Kentucky is without parallel in the his
tory of self.governing people. 1t saw
women, whom the laws of that state
debar from exercising the elective fran
chise. going to the polls and inspiring
their msle friends and relatives TO aid
in hurling from power man who was,
less than year ago, but little short
of being a popular idol. Today he is
without power, without homage, and
without the means OF revenge upon
those who have compsssed his downfall.
At first it looks to have been mere
crusade against an individual who has
been, by his own confession, the wrecker
OF virtuous woman's good name, and
who, having wrecked herior life, coldly
abandoned her to the terrible alterna-
tive OF starvation or becoming one OF
those WHOSE footsteps take hold on
hell" But there was even another
offenss which society refuses to condope.
He had introduced this woman as his
fances to the wives of several promi-
nent men, two of whom were United
States senators. This was what society
refused to forgive. Mr.. Breckinridge
seems to have been singularly oblivious
OF the fate which overlook the brilliant
and witty Matt Carpenter about twenty
years ago for doing exactly the same
thing. All Carpenters versatile talents
could not save him when once that
revelation was made, and he died almost
friendless, if not forgotten altogether.
1t is strange that Mr.. Brsckinridge
should have sought to force his nomina-
tion upon the Democratic party with
such crimson stain upon his personal
record. Most men ciouded with such q
scandal would have bought a ticket for
England and then taken one OF Cooks
excursion tours mp the Nile; or II he de-
aired to journey in an opposite direction
he could embark for Honolulu and fam
ilisrize himself with the numerous sgil-
tiles of the hula-hulas and other salaci-
GUS saltatorians. But whatever he did
he should have kept out of the way until
the Pollard scandal and Madeline's $l5,-
600 worth of blighted affection had blown
over. In one of Charles Matthews'
clever little comedss. A Bull Ia China
Shop, oceurs the following conversation,
which ia somewhat applicable to the
present writing:
Bagshot--Ah. by the way. my dear
boy, have you no relative with whom
you could conceal yourself for short
period. say ten or fifteen years?
Flitter--Aw, yass, | have an uncle
who lett England about thirty years ago.
When we lahst heard from him he was
residing in Borneo and engaged ID the
cultivation OF nutmegs.
Bssshot--.A capital idea, my dear boy.
The very best idea Imaginable. So pack
up your trunk and be off to Borneo.
Here in England your prospects are not
great. Out in Borneo, among the nuts
mega. they will be greater. So pack up
yenr trnnk tomorrow. Pat your love at
the bottom and your shirts at the top
and be of to Borneo.
We auggest this idea to Mr.. Cleveland.
es duty that ms owes to "the solid
south" in general and the sovereign
state of Kentucky in particular. II the
portfolio OF minister TO Borneo is not va
cant it will be very easy for Mr.. Gresham
to declare it 60 alsd send the present in
cumbent about his bloomin' business.
Borneo abounds with sambur deer that
have sharp teeth. wild boars that would
rather fight than eat, cobrss that de-
light in spreading their poison, and an
very place for Mr. Breckenridge. In
Kentucky. from this time on, that
gentleman's prospects viii not be great.
Onl in Borneo. among the nutmegs, they
will be greater.