The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-24
~JAcKv cHINN IN SARATOGA.
Nevah Did See Men Gambling" He
 Said, "Like I've Seen 'Em Here."


 Saratoga Correspondence New York Sun
 Col. Jack" chinn of Harrodsburg
 Ky, sir got to town in time for the
 races on Saturday and he will stop until
 the end of the meeting. The colonel
 shoots to kill in Kentucky, when he
 shoots at all but outside of Kentucky
 he talks horse and drinks mint Juieps for
 the edifioation Of his friends and the re-
 freshment of himself. The Sun corre- spondent found him on the porch of the | Grand Union in the afternoon and asked kim what he thought of the general sit. uation.
 Grand, my son, grand" exclaimed Colonel Jack with unbounded enthu-
 siasm. T declah, I've been comin' to Saratoga foh fohty years, and l nevah did see anything like this. Why, the | place has just been twisted all around.
 This track up heah is goin' to be the grandest track in the country and the
 meetings are goin' to be the blue rib
 bon meetings of the American turf. And say, son, I reckon I've seen some right
 sharp gamblin' in my day but all the
 play 1 ever saw befoh is like red eye to old Bourbon. Nevah did I see men gamble like I've seen 'em here. Why,
 they bet a thousand on the case card just like you or I would play ten
 dollah note. These western fellahs are
 the lily-loos. Gates and Drake and some of their friends play the bank faster n
 Hindoo could run quarter Pretty warm
 folks. those gentlemen are. l nevah did
 see nothin like 'em; but MT. Whitney 8
 the man here; and I want to tell you
 somethn' you may not know. When
 he wins a race it's a popular victory all
 over the country. The representative turfmen like him because he's game as a pebble"
 How about politics in your country. | colonel?'
 "A leetle quiet now, suh. a leetle duiet but we're preparing for next yeah's campaign for gov'nor."
 Going to have a warm campaign?" q don't apprehend so, suh; 1 don't ap- preherd so. The state of Kaintucky, suh,
 is through with Republican officials, and
 that bein' the case, decent folks can live
 and vote and have their votes counted That's the situation suh, and I don't ap-
 prehend a very hot campaign"
 Have you given up the idea of getting Governor Taylor back from Indiana?" Colonel Jack" looked as if he thought
 1t could be hardly possible for man in his senses would ask such a question. He
 looked at the Sun correspondent for
 moment and then fairly explored: Leave that cur in Indiana
 
 democratic party of the s,aJe or Kair- lucky will get the cur back to Kain- lucky legally, and when we get him | there. we'll try him legally, convict him | legally and hang him legally. You heard what I'm telling you, suh We'll hang him legally. If we don't get him from this | governor of Indiana we'll get him from | the next. The republican party will have | to give him up to us sooner or later. But I should not wonder but there'd be a h. of rumpus in that party before we get him. Get him. though. we will and we'll get him legally. He's leading the life of a cur and practisin' law, but he hasn't had an easy nights rest since he caused William Goebel to be shot down at my side. We got the man who fired the shot and gave him imprison-
 ment for life. We got Caleb Powers and gave him life. We'll get Taylor and we'll hang him-hang him as suah as theahs
 God in heaven. He brought those noun taineers to Frankfort, the toughest men in the state, who nevah had three kinds of feed in their stomachs at one time be- foh and who nevah befoh drank a drop | of red whisky. He brought those men to
 frankfort to kill Goebel. and if neces-
 sary, or if it happened to be handy, to
 kill me, too. That's what Taylor did, and we'll hang him foh it. But mind YOU. we'll do. it legally"
 Were you pretty well armed that day
 Colonel?' asked the Sun correspondent. T believe I was. suh I sometimes
 carry firearm in the State of Kain-
 lucky, but nevah outside it; nevah. suh But do yon know, my son, the knowledge
 of the proper use of firearms in this coun- try is sadly neglected. The art of handling
 and discharging firearms ought to be taught in the public schools, like they teach the A. B. C.'s. Every boy and girl ought to know the art. It is a great