The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-06-23
A KENTUCKY Traveller.
One OF the Speeches Delivered at I
Old Point ConNHntinn

One OF the Speeches Delivered at the
Old Point Convention.
The opening OF the T. P. A. convention
ut old Point Comfort was one Of the
rrandest ever held. Surrounded by hun
dreds assembled at the festive board at
the Chamberlain hotel the speeches were
as much q part and portion OF the pro
gram as were the beautiful women and
pretty flowers Among those who Craced
the board was one who is locked upon as
Texan. notwithstanding be halls from
the only penny yIlc' district ~ rne world
KENTUCKY Tai Wa the only" Jerry
Porter and Ae Was greeted vita rrelt ap-
pause
Mr Porter spoke as follows,
Mr. Chairman. Ladies' and Gentlemen.
When a man Is introduced from Ken.
tucky nova days most nnythiug may llp-
pen from applause IN the gallery "a h'sses
n thu auli1uce-auythiug down 90 Z gem
oral and universal horse llugh, which we
are always prepared n receive wien TANKS
Ana rhls brings on the talk
'oid virginia Is "a great country and
her descendants are an great people The
names o. some Of her cons nave be.g writ.
ten as high on the SC1on as names are
! always reject with greatest rri.ae rb9ft
/ descended from Virginia, descended from
the state thar gave the world such men
o. George Washington, Robert n Lee and
Stopewlll Jackson. But ! ana the only
one left OF us four! ! am suU descending
ron virginia. They have gone gp But
be II eyer so humble, there Is no place ike
nome. When read In the Good Book lor
hear Il read, the story Of the prodigll-son
II the prodieal son aud his ma ana pa
pathetic. I always think o. the many long,
weary days and nights Of anxiety and care
iEat old man Prodlga and DID Mrs prodl-
md
watching and wondering. Oh where he
ny boy .roosing tonightF And when young
Prodlgal had gone down To inehrcty ana
tln until the hogs refused TO eat or drink
VITA him. bad wandered away down Into
Egypt or West Tennessee, or Texas and
hat soaked all hig clothes hut his hat IN
ilotous living, and was forced 20 sober
W ana start back to KeDtucky-I can see
MN now A. he wakes from the awful dc
bauch. His mind goes back on lightning
lash TO his old Kentucky home And he
noqla give $3.50 for drink OF old Brook
70 GO hack to hts pa with about this kind
OF song language on his heart;
Father. dear father, come after me now,
" clock in the steeple strikes p
Bring some clothes and some collars and
sim have my hat and one shoe.
old Prodlgal goes out TO meet him ana
fllls on ms neck; then puts diamond ring
on MS niger, steps back and takes a good
looe az his boy and right here ! leave the
picture With You, scene deeply pathciic
NOW have no complaint 10 otfef against
inc right kind OF prodig0lity In the world.
Our forefathers were the prodIgal sons az
the English throne but we have neves
spent all our substance 10 riotous living
joan Wesley and the Methodlsts are me
plodisals or the English established churcn
but they have never yet shown any desire
g want 20 arise and 20 back TO their
fathers. And Alexander Campbell fell from
grace in the Baptist church and vel his
feli0w-plodigal sons have never had Ia
fecq on husks that the swine wouldn't cat
And Kentucky loft this Virginia mother.
land one hundred and nine years ago this
good June; and while we have had some
riotons living down our way. we have lust
cfme on visit and when we have eaten
the fatted calf and danced a few sets in
the old Virginia reel with Ma aud Pa and
their nelghbors and friends, we Will have
10 Kiss the women and children goodbye
and 20 back to Kentucky
SO TO motherland as KentucklAns we
come today With n hundred and nine years
Of gray hairs on our heads with a History
OF GOOD deeds of which we are proud az
any good people can be, and yet rs sorry
for all our manlfe mistakes as any pepi.
We ask for mothers hand and mothers
heart Is what's coming to US aud the very
hest you've got-and we shall be satisfied
We are not representatives OF any political
faction or hell<born devil machine. The
people We represent have never raised
angels OF commerce. I, gar. sir from
The bluegrass and pennyriIe, and we are
known from the lowest valleys 20 the high
ast mountain tops OF Kentucky, and out
'idc Of Kentucky, from the rivers TO the
srds Of the earth
what Of new realm in Keatucky--a new