The San Francisco call., 1898-02-11
WILL FIGHT
 ONLY WITH
 THE PEN No Danger of a Duel Between Breckin- ridge and Moore. Nothing but Ink Will Run in the Present
 Battle. Colonel Willie Hurls VolleyS of Confoio
Colonel Willie Hurls Volleys of Hot Sarcasm at Captain
 Tonnnie.
WERE ONCE FIRM FRIENDS
But Since the Pollard Scandal the Ex-Congressnan Has Not Been
 Supported.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

LEXINGTON, Ky, Feb. 10.-Capta1n Thomas E. Moore's challenge to Colonel Breckinridge printed an editorial in the reigning sensation here to-day Colonel Breckinridge printde an editorial in the Lexington Herald this morning under the caption, "Once Man, Twice Child" in which he refers to Captain Moore: "Our dear old bimetalllcle leaguer seems to have lost his temper, and if one did not know him he might be- lieve he was extremely anxious to fight; but he uses language in Pick wickian sense. The Herald took pleas ure in bearing witness to his political record for the purpose of assuring the present Legislature that they could find no one in Kentucky who had been a more persistent, consistent and hope lessly ignorant advocate of Appreciated money, and that therefore he was emil nently qualified to fill any office to which he might aspire.
 "As the Herald knew of no Qualifica- tion which this venerable knight of the code duello possesses as the controller of the penitentiaries of Kentucky 1t confined its condemnation to those quail ties to which it did have knowledge. It feels compelled to decline to enter into private correspondence with this grace full wielder of such a facile pen, for thereby the community would lose the pleasure of reading his cards.
 ''The Herald is not an expert in the code, and it does not know whether this belligerent letter is a challenge. If it be challenge the Herald respect fully declines to accept it. If it Is an invitation to this venerable leader to arrange what course may be necessary and satisfactory to both parties and that limited upon condition that the meeting shall be with him, the Herald respectfully declines. But we suggest to him that in this pleasant weather in February, with St. Valentines day approaching and with the Legislature having only thirty days to sit, he turn his thoughts to sweeter amusement than shooting, he pray for larger pow CTS of self-control, he get into his mind the conception that he who enters pol itics and freely talks of others, and that not always within the bounds of accuracy, must expect to have an an- swer made, and that he console him. self with the thought that life so con- spicuous as his, a career so diStin- guished as that which has come to him and position so full of influence as the one he now fills, attracts the public attention and causes criticism. :"
 Captain Thomas E. Moore dictated this: "The article bears the marks of the power behind the throne Colonel w. C. F. Breckinridge), and islander and abuse being their stock in trade. I deem the article unworthy of notice. I am willing for the people of Bourbon and Fayette counties, and all other counties in Kentucky, to judge between me and the record of the party behind the throne in every way
 In course of conversation it cropped out that the captain has been sup porter of Colonel Breckinridge in all his successful races for Congress; that he abandoned him when the Pollard scandal came out, and that the captain thinks this is the reason Colonel Breck- inridge has so persistently bounded him in his editorials.