Blue-grass blade., 1894-05-20

involves a principle that concerns eve,
man and woman in any civilized goverl
ment. The issue is between the sexe
The men who are in sympathy wit
Breckinridge are trying to establis
what they call the double standard" {
morals, and Breckinridge, as the cham,
ion of this idea, has said that he could 3
guilty, with impunity. of personal ur
cleanness that would ruin a woma,
That this is historically true is now, an
mas long been, commonly recognize
fact; but it has been fact that good an
honest and intelligent people have a
ways deplored, and the Injustice q
which has, until now, been, by all sue
people, recognized.
To save his own rotten hide. this oil,
gray-headed hbertine, is now irving +
foist this deplorable and hitherto dep1or
ed fact into place in the code of tn
unwritten law of the land.
That every old sin-soaked libertine i,
the country should tumble to his racket i
natural; but the more distressing part O
the case is that there are many instance
OF good men, who, having an ak to grind
or led captive by the seductive orator,
OF the man, or made to sympathize witt
him because so many preachers ar,
against him, or made to first pity, thel
endure, and then embrace him, becaus,
of the real or alleged suffering that h,
has undergone, as the result of his crime
are now his allies in his nefarious an(
diabolical purpose.
The principles of our government ar,
supposed to put all of its law-abidins
citizens, not only on an equality befor,
the law, but also in social recognition
Or, IT there be any difference in this re
gard, there is the unwritten law of chiv
airy that gives the woman some prefer
ence. But in this instance where there
is direct and square clash in the inter
est OF the men to condone the crime
OF Breckinridge and the interest of al
women to condemn and punish him fo,
his crime, and this crime is to be con
doned or condemned by his election o,
defeat for Congress-the men can al
walk up and vote their sentiments auf
the women cannot. And though it i.
not true that all the men in the countr,
are ibertines as Breckinridpe and Phi
thompson have proclaimed, there ART
thousands of men as corrupt as Rrect;n
ridge who will walk up and vote TO,
AAA~AAS D~SoaSN IL - u tuclI interest II
stand by their own kind, who have wive.
Just as pure as Breckinridge's wife, who
is SAID to have died from a broker
heart, from having discovered his per
nay ana such women as these must sta,
at home and attend to the domestic af
fairs, and scheme to get spring bonnet
and new dress with big sleeves on i
to wear to church, while their lords ant
masters go to the polls to do the votins
for both of them.
The man or the woman who can MOI
see the injustice of this is burned foo
and is not worthy of the boon of civil o,
religious liberty.
And yet these old devils, with Just as
much hypocrisy as Billy Breckinridge ir
MS lexington Opera-house speech, will
say this is all right and get the preacher.
to back them in it, because little old
bow-legged Jew lawyer, who used to pu,
women in Jail because they did not think
as he did, and was so burned mean and
ugly that none of the women would mar.
ry him, and who lived 5000 miles from
here nearly 1000 years ago, had taken il
on himself to say that no woman should
speak in public, and that she must be in
subJection to her hus band, and that
when she wanted to know ANYTHING she
must go and ask her husband about II
Whether this legal shyster assumed that
every husband was a walking encyclope-
dia, or whether his idea was that no
woman ought to know any more than
her husband, do not know. but that
was the law he laid down.
Women like Madam de Stael and Har-
rlet Beecher Stowe and Mrs. Livermore
and Mrs. Ward, and Queen Victoria.
whose husbands nobody ever heard of.
must go to those husbands to learn what
to do, and Miss Francis Willard who has
no husband, and Sara Bernhart who inst
took up with" fellow could lust sit
still and suck their thumbs, with no.
body to go to.
Think of Emma Abbott going to her
husband to tell her how to play, "Mik-
ado or Mary Anderson defering to her
husband as to how to represent "Cymbe-
line or "POrtia" or Juliet" or "Imopen."
To send this old rake and fake back to
Congress is for the fathers of the land to
say, in action that speaks louder than
words, that the road to fame from Ken
lucky, is the path of vice. How anv
true good sensible woman who has a son
to protect from the vice of this country
can now say that she does not want to
vote against this bad man, is more than
can understand.
Breckinridge, in his Lexington speech.
told us how he sat up, until the grav
drawn, wrestling with questions Of e
nance. He is an old liar. Every BODY
IN the country knows how he has been
spending his nights, and squandering,
on strumpets, the money which he owed
% his creditors, and could not or would
not pay.
Phil Thompson, who has separated
rom his wife, and killed two men, is the
sind of a man that Breckenridge en-
,loys for his counsel.
Under all the circumstances, do not
hink 1t is very creditable either to the
lead or the heart of any woman to say
he does not want to vote.
At the same time that the Democrats
we're offering old Cleveland and old Car
isle and old Breckinridge, none of whom
ave ever shown any business capacity,
he Prohibitionists offered John Bidweil,
man who had large experience in ma
!onal politics, who had shown his finau-
lal capacity by honestly making a very
irge fortune for himself, and who had
hown his philanthropy and patriotism
! using his fortune to do good for
theirs, and who was and is man of the
urest morals. And yet with such men as
and Henry Watterson to
ictate the politics of this country, Bid
ell gets 100000 votes and old Cover
nd his gang get Landslide" that
ives them the presidency and both
ouses, and everything in a sling, and
ow they stand, with their fingers in
ieir mouths without sense enough to
now what to do with what they have
OF, when our Kentucky Billy-goat got
Congress by telling US what an Ely
um we would have if the Democrats
iould get into power and give us tariff
form. And yet they have not reformed
orth cent, and do not propose to do
). or to do anything else but draw their
llaries. {
repeat that the woman who does not
ant vote, and want it bad, is not much d,
woman.