The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1894-10-17
The Fact That Some Men Have
Become Crazed on the
Question
Does Not Shake His Faith In the
Grand Principles of
Democracy.
ALBERT IOHNS0NS' SPEECH.

All Populist papers are teeming with
fraud that smells to Heaven" perse.
cutting the two old political parties,
especially the Democratic party, heaping
Goals OF fire on not only the heads of the
President, congressman and Senators
but their constituency as well, declaring
in thunder tones that the only way
susceptible of reaching the seat of the
disease that has been manifesting itself
in catalogue OF ills, is by handing over
the rens of the government to the Pop
ulists who are getting awful hungry for
"pie," crying like babies because they
can't get a smell.
This county is besieged with Populist
papers. We Democrats-some of us at
least-get them gratis. We read them,
of course; read everything we can get
hold of from Tom Paine's Age of Reasc n
down to Darwin's Theory. They do not
tend to mar our intellectual powers. The
belief is firm within us that there is a
God, thereafter The fact that some
men have become crazed in their search
alter knowledge, doesn't shake our faith
in Divinity, and the fact that some OF
our representatives have gone wrong, is
no indication that all Democrats are
thieves. The versatility of our minds
is not moved by the incalescent howl
ings of gang of coyettes and Jackals
-calamity-howlers, dead BEATS" or
Populists(?) if you please.
was invited to attend the club meet
ing at Oak Grove the night of the 9Th
inst, and hear grand display OF elo-
quence in the Populist line, from MIR.
Johnson, Of b. andenburg. When there
is any thing of grandiloquent nature
going on in the country, Sirocco's mighty
apt to take it in so took in Johnson's
eloquence. The only thing / regret, in
regard to listening to his harangue is, /
had to put mustard plaster on my side
to- draw the soreness out which was
caused from the smothered commissions
of laughter that wouldn't down at my
bidding. He scared aloft ON the wings
of oratory, his mellow, sweet-scented
voice rising and falling 'twixt earth and
heaven like the winds harp-strains, till
one imagined he could see him oscilat-
ing in ETHEREAL space with the angels OF
heaven reckoning him up. He read his
speech, or essay, or whatever it was,
from a manuscript in tablet form, never
for solid moment keeping his eyes off
OF his paper only for glance around the
room now and then to see if every body
was awake.
We were all very much awake, but are
yet undecided whether he intended that
address for parody ON the psalms OF
David, a burlesque on Solomon, or was
trying TO paraphrase Bunyan's Pilgrims
Progress, but suffice it to say, 1--WE got
our sufIiciency full and more would have
been flipity-hopity," as the girl said
when she showed her plate back at the
table and refused to partake of anything
more, her mother having cautioned her
to eat sparingly when in company, and
when she was pressed to continue her
meal, excuse herself thusly; 'Thank you,
have sufiiciency and more would be
superhuous." But you see the old gal got
things kinder mixed. Johnson never
made an application from start to finish,
it was continued prologue Of psalms.
In closing, he said that he had become
very religious since he had embraced the
Populistic doctrine, and didn't see how
the Democrats and Republicans could
refrain from becoming members of the
Populistic church, that Jesus Christ was
the best Populist that ever lived. When
he brought Christ into the ring, it was
after he had finished reading his manu-
script and had fallen TO pieces like an
old barrel that had been under the
influence OF too much sunshine. Elisha
Ashcrait capped the climax then by ris-
ing TO his ieet and telling the audience
that he (Ashcrait) was sorry that Mr..
Johnson didn't speak, plain enough for
them all to understand him.
Elisha then opened the doors of tie
church and invited sinners to come for
ward and join the Populists while the
congregation sang an old familiar hymn.
Didn't any body go up. guess they
wanted to search the scriptures and see
ifJohnson' told the truth about Christ
being Populist. honestly believe
that some OF the Populists in Meade
county think that the second coming OF
Christ, is close at hand, and when He
makes His appearance, He'll say, first
thing, TO the Populists, swell done thou
good and faithful servants, d. etc" and
will say to the dead, Gan you Populists
rise fist" Then He'll say, "Where is
Jim Arnoldg Jim will speak up right
quick, "Here am Lord, I've bulliraged
the Democrats and Republicans until l
know you'll give me a high seat in the