Blue-grass blade., 1899-02-19
Rev. Williams was paying for and
carfully reading the BLADE.

wy poptr 10 dUoub % Wtn huOW
In any other state In tho Union as
Is in Kentucky.
have been a success as journa
ist for over % years.
One OF the first pieces I eve
wrote Billy Brcckinridgc, today tn
finest orator in America except Ir
gersoll told me, not would make, bu
hal made, me famous, In thre
hours after u appeared in the Lex
ington Daily Press; and before | ha'
been writing year, DR.. Bullock
now living in Lexington, brother d
United States Senate Chaplain 10
seph Bullock, under Cleveland
said ! was the finest writer in Ken
tucky except Henry Watterson, ant
Rev. President John W. McGarvey
the most prominent living Camp
bellite preacher, preaching 10 con
gregation of 1000 people with tn,
BLUE Grass BLADE In his hand, sale
Charley Moore has said some hare
things but never caught him In .
lie. !"
George r. Hall has son, 30 the
newspaper account shows, named
for my grandfather.
l never heard of Hall before. II
he never heard OF me, il is because
he Is, in that matter, the same ig.
noramus that he seems to be In
other things.
All this sounds like Dragging 10
me, and Il is Dragging.
It is intended to show that am a
man Of incomparably more impor-
tance than Hall, and It Is as prelude
to my statement that while Col. In
gersoll has done me personal kind
ness and Is q patron Of my paper and
while II Is, nevertheless, notorious
In Infidel circles, that ] am less than
any prominent lnfidel an sdmirer OF
I am compared with In
gersoll who Is the greatest living
orator and the most widely known
living human being, except Queen
victoria-"a youth to fortune and
fame unknown" who Is not At to
black Bob Ingersoll's boots.
And yet | would not deiRn to de-
bate With Hall as be now stands.
But II he will get an endorsement as
. gentleman and fair representa-.
tive OF his church by any one Of the
prominent preachers In his church
who live In Lexington will dare
him to meet me In debate oral or
written, in Lexington or Cincinnati
# f eua dfal, iiih any I 1ns,xiffnHA5n pxpsr
including the BLADE or the Chris
tian Standard Of Cincinnati, II writ
ten.
The paper which seems to be Halls
organ Is ''The Lookout" Of Cincin-
natl. ! have lived q good deal In
Cincinnati, and especially in news
paper circles, and thought knew Of
every newspaper in Cincinnati, but
I never, before, heard Of the Look
out" and shall look out for copy
Of 1t.
As an instance OF the Stability or
mendacity OF the fellow Hall, he says
Of his sect that they have &c, 900
preachers, aud In nour ministry we
have q number Of men who are as
widely, and more favorably, known
than r. G.. Ingersoll. /"
think any we'll informed man
will agree with me in saying that
Bob Ingersoll is not only known to,
,ut is honored by more people than
rnow the whole combined 5000
Jampbellite sky pilots.
A boy 12 years old in North
America who might not know about
would be regarded hardly
more than an idiot, and there is
'ardly an intelligent boy or girl IL
'ears OF ago In the civilize.l world
rho does not know about him.
There have been four men In the
United States who were not Presi-
ents because they we're too great TO
70. They we're Clay, Webster. Cal.
ouu and Blaine. Bob Ingersoll
aade Blaine too great by calling
i'm "plumed knight" and then to
ave 9 little gospel Singing Camp
elite like this fellow Hall to be
BILE to speak OF himself Is man |
worthy OF the metal" OF sucha man
8 Ingersoll, is not insulting because
Lall says it-for a mule can kick q
Iiug-but because such a man is
acked and countenanced by such
entlemen as Charles Louis Loos
nd Robert Graham and John W.
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