Blue-grass blade., 1895-01-06
What My Lecture at Lex
ington Indicated.

lectured in Lexington, Dec. %, which
was Sunday, for the benefit of the Print
ing Pressmen.
announced, in advance, that would
talk about politics and religion, and it
was known that am an atheist, and /
did express atheistic views.
The most encouraging comment that
was made to me, on my lecture was
yAde by a gentleman of one of the learn
ed professions, who Is University cf
Virginia man. You do not hear of any
foot ball, or hazing, or slugging, or
banjo playing, in connection with that
institution. 1t was founded by Thomas
Jefferson the infidel.
There was not, at my lecture, a single
Lexington saloon keeper, preacher, pol
itician or editor. Those four classes all
stand in with each other, and are there
fore opposed to me. lectured at 2:5o
P. NJ While l was doing so those
preachers and politicians were at home
reading, i'll the newspapers of those edi-
tors, the conspicuous advertisements of
those saloon keepers, which, on that
Sunday, constituted the most prominent
feature in all the papers except the Blade
The Leader gave my lecture very
kind notice. The Leader is edited by
the son of Christian minister. A
prominent feature in its advertisement
was life-size bottle of whisky. The
Leader is the most prominent paper in
Lexington and is about the only Repub-
lican paper in the State.
On that Sunday the first thing on the
first page of the Leader was saloon
keepers advertisement the full width OF
the paper. The Republican party says
it is trying to stop the liquor traffic, but
it does not believe in trying to do it by
the Prohibition method. 1t is opposed
to carrying politics into the pulpit.
The men who paid out most Of their
| money to buy the handsome plant and
pay the handsome editor of the Leader
for editing it are the Stolls. X. P. Stoll
is the biggest distiller il Lex ngton, and
other members of the family are engaged
in the whisky business. The other men
who do most to support the Leader, are
the Milwards, the Shaws, and Pearson
and Clark and Curry.
None of these men will allow copy
of the Blue Grass Blade to come into
their houses, because it is infidel.
The Milwards and Shaws are the most
aggressively religious people in Lexing-
ton. They are Methodists, and vote the
straight Republican ticket, except one
Milward who, within the last year or
| two has turned Prohibitionist.
| don't know so much about Clark 5
piety, but Pearson is regular rotten pious
He is Methodist, runs grocery, and
will sell you a thousand barrels OF
whisky If you have got the money to
pay for it.
Curry is Presbyterian, and is ex'
tremely pious. They took him from
here away up to New York to sit dowr
on Briggs. Curry runs grocery, anC
will sell you thousand barrels of whisky
if you have the money.
When Hull Davidson, the Democrat,
saloon seeper, was made Mayor of Lex
ington, and while such was several time:
indicted for selling liquor to minors ant
for allowing gambling in his house, h'
first announced his candidacy through
this Republican newspaper, the Leader
that is run by these eminently piou:
Republicans, and made his campaign
through that paper.
The Presbyterian editor of the Trans
cript, a Democratic paper, run by ;
Yankee soldier, confessed in an editoria
to having taken $500 to advocate the
claims of Davidson who was and is |
brother Presbyterian.
Davidson failed in his own business
and made an assignment, then failed al
, Life Insurance man, and is now in thu
race horse business.
When a man is not fit for anythin,
else on Gods earth-or the Devil
which ever it belongs to-he can gener
r ally succeed as preacher or life in
r surance man, or a Kentucky editor, am
when he can not make any of that thres