Blue-grass blade., 1895-01-06

don't care durn about the Steal1ng
Of the $I4,7I3. That is all right. |
would have stolen that myself, and so
would any first class gentleman in Lex
ington, but the man who stole that 76
cents is damned thief, and hell is none
too good for him.
If / understand what the Cincinnati
Enquirer says about it-for we have to
rely on foreign papers to tell about any
of the damned rascality that is going on
in our town-this time it lies between
the living Presbyterian ]. Hull Davidson,
the living Baptist Stephen G.. Sharp
and the dead Catholic Billy Welsh.
do not say that either of the living
two are trying to charge the dead man
with having stolen that money, but do
say that if Hull Davidson does so it is
simply an outrage.
1t is no answer, from Hull Davidson,
to the people of this city, to intimate, or
insinuate, or connive at the statements
of others, to the effect that the dead
Billy Welsh stole that money. "Quod
facit per ALLAN facit per se," is the law
maxim that covers the case. Davidson
was paid big money to attend to that
business, aud if Davidson knows any
thing in the world it is book keeping,
for his father before him was profess
sional book keeper, and Hull was born
and raised book keeper, and if he has
allowed his clerk to steal out of the
money of this city $I4,7I3.76 and never
knew anything about it until it was un-
earthed by four months work of two
Gpecial!y employed expert accountants.
then, as his clerk was dead, and cut off
f~o ~, of ea1f Iafa,,a noxyt1
son should have shut his mouth, so far
as Welsh was concerned.
The heather said "Nil de mortuis nisi
bonum," and it remains for Christian
to take advantage of his own tort by in
sinuating against man, in whom he had
publicly indicated his full confidence,
when the trusted mans hand has lost its
skill in death, and his tongue lies silent
and defenceless in the grave. This
ought to be a lesson to the Catho-
lie Irish about that understanding that
one of their number has to be put into
any job that any official gets.
Ifthe Irish had the independence Of
character to use the mother wit, with
which nearly all of them are endowed
they would not be so stuck on these
Protestant politicians anyhow; for any
Protestant politician hates any Catholic
Irishman worse than he hates the devil,
and though the Protestant politician
will get down and lick the Irishman' S
brogans to get his political support, he
has got it in for that Irishman all the
same, and he will victimize the Irishman
Just so soon as it best serves his purpose
to do So
The Christian people of this town
knew that Hull Davidson was not only a
saloon keeper, but that he had been re-
peatedly indicted for selling liquor to
minors and for allowing gambling in his
house when they voted for him
No man who is morally capable of en-
gaging in that kind of business ought to
be trusted in any office The churches,
and Masons and Odd Fellows and
Knights of Pythias, and all of these other
Billy goat societies have kicked out all
the saloon keepers. because they are not
willing to associate with them, and yet
when we come to find men to run the
city of Lexington where colleges and
churches are thicker than any other
houses in town except saloons and whore
houses, these sanctified, psalm singing
fellows pick out Hull Davidson Pres
byterian saloon keeper and race horse
man, for Mayor, and then go into these
hell holes they call saloons, and get out
lot of Irish with brogues on their
tongues foot thick, to make Council
men and Aldermen out of, and then
send a Baptist saloon keeper to the
Senate, in Frankfort to make our laws
and then they raise hell, and profess to
be very much surprised, when they find
ten or twenty thousand dollars have
been stolen out of the city treasury, al
most any time they employ somebody to
look over the books.
These fellows ought to be kicked out
and the town put into the hands of re-
ceiver until its business is Strengthened
up but it never will be. because there is
so little manhood among these mascu-
line bipeds that wear breeches that each
fellow would rather pay the extra tax that
he knows lie is being swindled out OF
than stand the boycott of these Protes
tant politicians and saloon Irish, OF
saloon Dutch.
| am against all Sundays and wan
them all wiped off the calendar, buI
there is law here against working OF
Sunday, except i'll cases OF necessity.
Mat Benkart is a Dutch saloon keeper
here, and he is prominent as a Cit,
Councilman, and his liquor show is on,
of the biggest things at the Expo. Al
day last SUNDAY Mat Benkart was haul
ing ice to keep beer next summer. vii
Bronston and Southgate bounce Mat
Nay verify
The Enquirer uses Judge Sharp's
name in the mess also. II Judge SharI
is reported right he says they may ex