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Digital page images are linked to the text file. at J thi frjjrt1 o I1tOIl M BUTE GBASS BLADEHEATSTERMS 1THE ONLY PROHIBITION PAPER PUBLISHED fA PER YEAR 200 for Rich People 100 for Poor People Vol III No 49 LEXINGTON Kr4fUNDAY MAY 20 1894 F r r r THEs L 7 PLHCE TI iii1MILALAERLfl39os- r 1 r f P o MAINlKYtOR BROADWAY CHE APt U NDERWEAR i MILLER U AUTHOR THE RATIONAL VIEW A book of373 pa es 5x7 neatly boundand plainly printed Price soc Postage Prepared It is a modem Ra view Theology THE BLADE ADVERTISING RATES kiJ o a a F z Year88888S88Insertions 8 8n 8 8 SSSS 88838Six Montn Insertion S S a Three 8 S S 8 8 8 8 8 8 II MonthsI 2 i S Two MonlhsS S S S n 8 ninsertlons n n n Month If 8 n S b n 8 InsertionI a a = 1388888888Threelnsertionra n y 85130 S 13s 8 woI t r n 88858858lasertloa Entered at Post Office at Iexiugton Ky as second class matter tfr Please Read This If All persons to whom this paper comes having their navies printed on the mar gin it is hoped will pay for it and pay for it in advance as is the case with oth i er papers These names have been furnished by the parties themselves or by friends of theirs or mine or by our mutual friends 4 or they are acquaintances of mine and in all cases theyare put on the regular mailing list of the ItrADH on the supposition that they will pay for the paper at the rate of Rich men or Poor men as they may decide as by the terms printed at the head of this paper You owe for the paper from the date printed after your name If you do not want the paper please inform me or direct the postmaster inform me to that effect If you do wan the paper please pay me promptly for it or notify methat you intend to do so at your earliest convenience In general terms I ask you whether you be Christian or infidel to do to me as you would have me do to you d Yours fraternally CHARLES MOORE Editor G BIADE l COL INGERSOLLS Letter to Me and My Answer 0 to NEW YORK CITY 400 Fifth Avenue May 8 My dear Mr Moore- I am sorry that you are in trouble sorry that you touched the feelings of your neighborsbut I do not think you you have violated any lawthough you courtesyIt to take your case Mv time is alreadymortgaged Besides if I should appear jure you by fanning into all ot the bigotry in your section- I guess you helpYours R G INqERSOIJ 189tColDear SirIn candor I must say that your letter dispels from my mind much of the that has for year hung undo nmadIb e it jli3friendsr Before I ever heard ofyou and when I did not know or know ofan infidel in Kentucky if in the United States I walked down out of a pulpit when I was at the height of my popularity and lov ed by a highly apprecia tive congregation of which I had and took hold of the plow handle when I had not been reared to work because I justfromof MosesIt only broke my mothers heart but broke my own heart and I saw in prospect as plainly as I now see the thirty years in retrospect the Illiad of woes that my departure from the faith of my fathers has brought upon me successfullydelyand successfully I nothing to support me but the knowledge that I was and the courage of my con victions When you like a Minerva from the thigh of Jupiter sprang at one bound full the arena and tounded and startled like some won drous brilliant meteor the whole civilized world and dashed from your sailed flanks the legions of howling hypocrites as some Nemean lion would a packof curs of low degree you were a revelation to me and I bowed at the shrine of your mighty genius with an adoration and idolotryfar more genuine than that which the average Christian feels for his God I read your books traveled to a dis tance to hear your lectures cheerfully paid high prices to hear them sought and obtained interviews with you and to you and to others in season and out ofseason utterly regardless of all that it was costing me in in social recognition and in every interest of every kind save that of mental liberty out of the abundance of my heart my mouth spake my unbounded wild en thusiasm for you It cost me my posi tion in a bank and my pesition on a newspaper and came nearer costing me the love of the dearest wife that ever plighted troth than all else together Hut by years of pure life I have lived down all of this andniy neighbors saw that a man could an and be a good man The conviction that I was right grew with my years and ripened into defiant courage as my hair began to silver with the frosts and I wrote a book in which I said kind and enthusiastic about you I became a Prohibi tionist and when as the editor of a Pro hibition paper the way to eminence and financial success seemed clear if I would only pander to Christian ignorance big otry and hypocrisy I would not deserl you because you were right though ters came by the hundred repudiating me and refusing me support and tim I can not now count- thembChristian men threatened to mur lroclaimedChristian men caught me in the public highway and in the name of the chord subjected me to such outrage as n other ever suffered anf finally a church that worships God believes that Jesus was born with a Go inttwo months with negro thieves and mur derers for saying in the defence of goon morals what intelligent man ii the Blue Grass region knows was true Many good Christians and good infi dels came to see me and wrote me kin letters and they came from all over th United at none of them wer signed Robert G Ingersoll- I went to my farm and worked han for two years to recuperate from m losses and to let my wife recover the health that her sympathy with me had almost destroyed she once lying at point of death when I was locked up in Jailand refused by Christian men the privilege of going to see her under a dayFnr my paper and though no Jilsn has ever lost a dol Iar by met have ld1tmoneyevery time and this last time e I havelostout of own pocket be side myGand igbor bout Lately lLip mper that Js heand r had A won M ed man and w fortlesscelhinjarlriightltlie where 1 and w generations of my ancestry lives ofpurity te1knee hone breathed the holife in this city ofLexingtonrepel ilnitr- ed W CP taatCHirHiiEits50000 And now you Robert G Jif gersoll write to me that you are sorry that I have touched the feelings of my neighbors When I have read your replies to Gladstone I have said that you where the prince ofirony and that Ju butlittlefriend and admirer would be the victim of the most scathing of all that has ever flowed from your gifted pen appreciationthe lovely Dr Field must have felt and what must have been the sense of pain JudgeJerryemies and I was your friend They got expectTheywerefriends I stand alone and moneyless and troubled and the almost tainty of my conviction when my trial JulyIenough to boast how you would come to my aid through I was ashamed to have to say would have to pay you for your services You could not have been ignorant of my case It was in the dispatches everywhere and when I asked you for bread even for money you gave me a stone The last issue of my paper tella how a Minnesotawhohalf as ranch as you avedoneentmeI 500 to help me out yraepublishedpages of beautifully and closely tendertfsplratioriis5 nolito MvehTm cSmeana see me in my humble but sweet and mantic country home and sit on our fa mous Blue Grass under the very tree where for years I have had the dream that some day you and Mark Twain would sit with me and my wife and chilI priest Martin Mahon when he was in the habit yinmy paper that I was an atheist and that I not believe in the immorality of soulas you thought possible at the grave of your brother- I have no more faith in any kind of Christianty Catholic or Protestant than I have in Buddhism and not as much faith in either of them as I have in Mohammedanism I do not believe that Jesus Christ was any better man than Martin Mahony or that the mother of Jesus was any tetter than my motheror my wife and yet see what kind of a fix you have left me in to boost infidelity and blast Catholicism Where did you not the idea that I had lacked courtesy You are the first man CertainlynoChristians ma have said it are you ab solutely certain that the whole Christian world has concurred in the sentiment that you were absolutely courteous Though I am a gentleman to the ma norand mannerborn I have lately worked with the negroes and I have been imprisoned and treated as if I were an outlaw and if under these circum myChesterfieldhave lived on grand stages and Fifth done is a little lack of courteous thing for which I ought to be imprisoned I hope that your time is all ofyou that s mortgaged and that your soul is not in the same fix with the devil as the mortgageeIt considerate in you to sug gest that your presence might injure me by fanning into flame all the bigptry in niv section Of course nothing of that sort exists here now where they have had me in jail twice and will try to get me in jail or the penitentiary the where last week a Christianeditor threatened to kill me and where vilifi cation and lies about me constitute a newspapersYour need much help was an exceedingly bad guess for man of perceptive powers out I guess I will try not to need A sadder but a wiser man I am yours respectfully CHARIKS C MOORS Vlint Rev I A Cutler of Sir glum tliiukti about tills nintt plieiny IlunliicHH 1894Dearble generous truthful and a lover of your fellowmen you excite my admira tion for your character and my sympa thy in your troubles lersecuLverydtland was disgusted with that method r adopted by the church of defending herself l And now you have been indicted by a grand of Kentucky for blasphemy at the instigation of Methodist preach preachIe vindicate their religion Is truth to be defended by an appeal t civil government Shall the Church ask aid of Caesar in propagating he doctrines and punishing heretics C C Moorevt and honorable genUemanwboijfjIJaracter is without reproach t for blasphemy because he does uses believe in the incarna tion of God Arrest Coi Ingersoll Arrest thellevR Arrest the Unita rians of eowi That act oiii 1ent against you for professedth enemies to do r lottTinr and to despitefully use and esort to law for the i then the s ed Christ Is ignored c 9rliberly falls into ort church members is lllels than all of the fppre aa4aU other in I ain a Christian min Bible I trust in the la prohibitionist But rturch members who peopleilirldiift1 1e Mai nf the church and Idmifcdi afctiJiiid official positions de li haying votes with money arid wniiky They vote the old liquorlicensiBKljarty tickets and share the saloon and all of its unmeaewred and nameless woe andmiseryMd if the courageous- pleacher shou j are say so and de noviHce as he should do the lawless and lying liquor these actual politicians ill Ms Ti to work charge him with saSffTgpolitics and though church may wish his thoemajonty9it ch a course as to corn to decline having his name broU before the church to be voted upon forpilsemierand pastor Governor SUJajfen said to several of us who hadcai ionhinJat his Ho tel in WashingteiN C Gentlemen if I in the faith the attitude of k churches to the liq uortraffic m made me a howl ing infidelJymri isso too And when cjmrch is prepared to take an advance4tep and cast out riot only liquor deaf but all whose votes perpetuate otect the iniquitous and bus fss count me in I am ready fortke movement ifit split the church fro tarret to foundation stone Hoping tthejury who shall try yoUn1a posed of men who love truth ad tand libertyI re masts Trudy JrFriend L A CUT It- RBy iOffift IVhtn lid 1uTh e Ill Due of the wiUone written a boy in Alert India ia wno says of himself in a private let er to me I sent you 100 for the i three weeks ago I am only a little o rer years old and not worth but fter reading your ar ticle in the Where am I at I concluded to send you another dollar which I enclose The article that accompanies this let ter is the ablest the most comprehen sive and the best that has ever been written for the BLADE by any man I mean man not woman Editor C C Moore of the Blue Grass Blade seems to be in a peck of trouble just at present and writes as though his paper is hoeing a hard roe He says he can air the corrupt records of a number aspirants about Lex ington bemuse his employes are intim idated by them This may be so with a good many of them but certainly not with Colonel Breckinridge who gets the warmest roasts from Moore every week that he gets aaywhere Flemingsburg Gazette A Three Year Old Subscriber to the Blade Master Charles Moore Gentry of Athens Ky aged three years sent in his money last week to pay for the Blade for one year- I never heard of the young man be fore I used to have namesakes when I was a preacher but this is the first one that I know of since I was converted to and success to him and his parents e3lrs llellQs Lecture Mrs Josephine KHenrythe womans standardbearer of Kentucky will deliver a lecture at the court house Friday May at 730 pm Subject Woman and the State The lecture will be free A collection will be taken up All are cordially invited Mrs Henry is too well known to need any recommenda tion Kentucky Leader LATEST DENTISTRY- Is old Iccftyed teeth cappedwith gold or teeth vritlrouTplates- TKUTH FILLED AND UXTKAT ED WITHOUT I AIN By the use of Vitalized Air made fresh every day and perfecty harm less Teeth Extracted 25 cents Vitalized Air Admin istered 50 cts IlrsT SET Or TEETII 900 First Premium arwarded our display of work at Lexington Fair ParlorsR H HODGES D D S Manager Houser4 i D H BEATTY 81 West Short Street- CONTRACTOR FBN IN And Builder Dealer in all kinds of Fenc ing and Fencing Material All my business is done for Cash D H BRATTY ft 11f JiiflolU UI DRY GOODS DEALERS IN LEXINGTON ARE Kaufman Straus Co 12 EastMain Stedmanand Bowman LEXINGTONS REAL ESTATE BROKERSBUY UEAL and Personal Property of Every Description Our IlHt Contains tile Cliolce t of Blue Grass FARMSHandsome City Property Beautiful Building Lots Centrally Located Business Houses Small Homes and Cottages W H BOSWELLS Grocery is the Emporium for md Exclusively a tr OverTwentyOne Million Fen FairGroundsj Fine Coffee t andtTeas On Account of Removal to a smaller Room we are making A MIGHTY REDUCTION- In all Canned Goods California Fruits a Specialty Tel 306 71 East Short St OUR PRICES SUIT THE TIMES Stovej ange5 Furnaces andeIronMantels Tiling Galvanizedmade Old stoves taken in exchange for new ones W J HOULIHAN BRO Grand Sale acuesS Muslin Underwear 11 13 15 W Main Street We are now conducting the Greatest Sale of Ladies Un derwear ever held in Lexington You cant buy the material for the prices we will sell you the Garment made up Drawers trimmed 25 29 39 and 75c Skirts 39 50 76 99 125 Night dresses 48 75 90 124 Chemise 25 39 48 75c Corset Covers 20 25 to 75c pI These Goods will only be on Sale while at these prices We continue to sell J r Lancaster Ginghams 41c ttYard Wide Brown cotton 4c vM Ir jI Tmligo Blue Calico 4Jc v v i j1Lonsdah cents s sv 1 MS W Another of Stevens allLinen Crash 4ic per yard J D PUGReLL SEEDS s Buy Your Garden Seeds From Voght Foley Grocers and Produce Merchants Opera House Block SEEDS i I Editor Drunk biRattled byMayaipenceworld to the candidacy of lirecklnrldge yiCharleyBret grievance to gratify wilt take It Into his head to Imitate the great historian PIu torch and write n comparative history of sltlonIn singing the psalms of David before persontoAn appreciative stranger who reads that that Editor Hodges of the Observer was of a fool or was drunk somethingI neither He is a cultivated educat principlesthoughnation of the evident phenomenon in quotedfromThis is a state of mind into which ev ery editor is liable occasionally to fall the result of overstraining of the brain and is more or less than temporary imbecility which an editor has to expose because his pa per has to appear periodically regardless- of his fitness to Those are all good dictionary words and they are joined in one long sentence with apparent recognition of the rules ofsyntax but you may read and reread them and you fail to get any clear idea from the simple fact that the editor did ownft That peculiarity characterizes every dateIhe a to ex how sorry he is that he so badly frightened me by threatening meI then became and got away so Hodgeshimselfjesting fightinglike this is patent to anybody that knows anythingabout us He considerablyoldr and considerably than I am and he has been a dry goods merchant and an editor and I have been working on the fa rat cutting and sawing big logs of hard knotty wood and splitting them with pickhimand set him down without hurting bi anythinghe does not think lean I will undertake the job anyday that he will name and meet me for that ose Col Hodges apologized to me in the presence ot my son entirely at his own and in a perfectly gentlemanly manner and on this account I went to Judge Jewell and made arrangement not to appear against Col Hodges But not in interviews with the reporters but here in his own paper does he fail Bwhicha high toned Christian and full of pression of religion reverence lie appal ently wants to get the reputation of being a holy terror If he had just the candor and magnanimity or even the simple justice to tell the plain facts about it everybody cluding myselfwould have been will everybodyhim CoL is inconsistent and inconsistency sticks out everywhere cpmplains my being an and blasphemer and seems to be doing all emphasizedbeforeWhile he calls me Brother in his e repeatedthata me as an infidel and atheist and blasphemer are evidently intended to injure me and do injure more than the more liltIle n makingChristian ColIpayingdgespaper in it which all th piety appears has the advertisement and local notices of the race course and the main advertisement that has ever been in his paper was that of the distillery of E TaylorThere race horse man or disti er in Kentucky that would be fool enough to try to get his advertisenie- in my paper though the circulation largthanknow that they cant do it But worse paperfilled is ridge and the common enquiry is what is the job that Hodges expects to get to BillyIalmost as aggressive as Billy the women of the country have printed their repudiation in the same way that they have nobodyhassaid blasting me and this issue of this shows that they regard me as their friend Editor Hodges feels that he has posed himself in his advocacy of Breck and he feels that people see and he does not sleep well under it a he has that feeling and his ef forts to parry the attack of Rev B doesrfirmly on his head There is only one way that Editor Hodges can recover himself and that is simply to acknowledge that he is wrong and back out and grease and take a fresh start As it is now the women and Re Jones and I all have him on the and to maintain an inglorious defensive is all that he can do If Billy is elected he may get plum but he and everybody else w know that it is the price of his man r hood Twos even Thus Heresy is still recruiting from orthodoxy This it is H C or C H of the Christian church Pro 4lessorofTheology in Butler University at Irvington Indiana Prof Garvins offense is that he has said the death of Christ has nothing to do with the salvation of sinners This of course is blasphemy and dis paraging to the religion are many of the things that I have sa andam still saying and still intend say but the in Indiana has n taken him in hand as it has done me in that I have received abo my blasphemy indicates Indiana to be one of the strongest of infidel states activeinThis is the third iustanceof thedevelop ineiit of heresy in Professors of theolog beingBriggsthe Presbyterian Church as was also David Swing R C Cave is another stance from the Christian church Query and Dr Thomas are respectively from the Episcopal and Methodist churches growingintellectual adult was about to come a Christian excited the surprise of the country The church own girlsbuthappening have no al as a scholarlyntan in mature being ftItsuch prominent Christians as Beecher a Talmage have had whfornicationcongregationnobody distinguishedhimself faithand Ingersoll whose life has been watched more closely than that of any man in the United States has been caught in anything of which lieor u tiIfcoming fifty years as it has done in the years that I can recollect it at the expiration of that time what we infidels aginfidelsomething as unthought of by the del of this day as were the electric ideas of aiImuch preached about as heaven is now and it was always described as a place of fire and brimstone down in the ground In a half dozen average ser mons in Lexington now the word hell gawhenm eiTheeaignoranttion lose hold on the masses in proportion as the be lief in hell weakens sottenridattack that about heaven While the story about hell is regularly and gradu ually weakening that about heaven is fiftyyearstalkedabout nothing new in popular conception of the place has been at is centuries it has been a lacewhere the people will have wings a harp and have a palm leaf andwalk on golden streets There has been an attempt to add golden slippers to the angelic out fit but it has proved abortive beerowingsstreet cars beat golden streets and the regular occurrence of airs is more in consonance withmodern taste than one eternal and monotonous shoo- of Hallelujah The CourierJournal and Georgetown Times on Breckmridge Georgetown againstBillyThey take great credit to themselves that they have been so conservative about matter and the gulled fool public accords them all that they lie the monumental gall to claim The fact of the thing is that these two watchingtojump They are editors for revenue againstBillyhad got him down and now these men emulatoB a roun Alraschid J The duty of any editor who is of any account to the world is to manufacture andhas manufactured it and then merely reflect what somebody else has done longtostand his true inwardness has not brains enough to be trusted with t editinsof a newspaper and the about him and has never said it until this late in the is not thise For the CourierJournal and the Georgetown Times to be arrogating to having IIillofEditor Charles C Moore to whom Pro referred as his Heathen friend was seated at the table with duringthe rnare ridge The reaction of the seatiinc bythewonderfully rapid I find that men who himIpublicbyfor Why the best and purest man the district the man of whose character no one can say aught whose moral life there is not a blemish whose political life is as pure as the spring water whichripples along in the small fridpersons pure and virtuous dominates over the desire JudJbecome a candidate I believe that he would receieve more than twice the nun her of votes cast for either of his probabllityofton Transcript havpan flowery part was gotten up by the r Billys racket I shall always be buills messtTHE WOMEN Would nearly all vote against Billy The CourierJournal with its wonted imbecilityand moral cowardice has an about woman suffrage Its principle argument against it is itJbrutetmorally and intellectually degraded the hertsqueezed in and getting her sleeves to gettingetime when the whole country is aglow with burning issues But at the same time every woman of any brains in the theyfthan the mencan now see in th BreckinridgePollard matter more clear theyXThis great scandal case is a matter of even more than national importance It involves principle that concerns every man and woman in any civilized government The issue is between the sexes The men who are in sympathy with Breckinridge are trying to establish what they call the double standard of championguilty with impunity of a personal cleanness would ruin a woman That this is historically true is now and recognizedfacthonest and intelligent people have al ways deplored and the unjustice of ich has until now been by all such recognized To save his own rotten hide this old grayheaded libertine is now trying to ed fo deplorfactunwritten law of the land That every old sinsoaked libertine in the country should tumble to his racketis natural but the more distressing part of case is that there are many instances good men who having an ax to grind oiled captive by the seductive oratory- of the man or made to sympathize with him because so many preachers are ainst him or made to and then embrace hipitybcause of the real or alleged suffering that he has under one as the result of his cri now his allies in his nefarious and purposeThe our government are lawabidingcitizens recognitionOrrd there is the unwritten law of chiv that gives the woman some prefer thereist of the men to condone the crime Breckinridge and the interest of all women to condemn and punish him for his crime and this crime is to be con ordeff3twalk up and vote their sentiments and the women cannot And though it is not true that all the men in the country are libertines as Breckinridge and Phil Thompson have proclaimed there are Breckinridgehim because it is to their interest to wivesjustis died from a broken heart from having discovered lis per stalatbonnetto wear to church while their lords an masters go to the polls to do the voting for both of them nott and is not worthy of the boon of civil or religious liberty justmuch as in his Lexington operahouse speech will preacherto Puwomenas he did and was so durned mean and ugly that none of the women would m ry him and who lived 5000 miles here nearly 2000 years ago had taken it shoutved must be subjection to her husband and th when she wanted to know anything she itWhetherencyclopediawoman ought to know any more thrswas Women like Madam de Stael and Har Livermordwhose husbadds nobody ever heard of semust go to those husbands to learn what and Miss Francis Willard who has juttooknobodyof Emma Abbott going to herhehusband to tell her how to ado or Mary Anderson defering to her CymbelineTo send this old rake and fake back to Congress is for the fathers of the land to say in action that speaks louder than Kevn an 3tocan now say that she does not want to vote against this bad man is more than I can understand- Breckinridge in his Lexington speech graydrawnnance He is an old liar Every body beeutn d woolisd separatedfrom eisntohead or the heart of any woman to sit she does not want to vote At the same time that the Democrats were offering old Cleveland and old Car whomil m a man who had large experience in na financialfortune for hImself andoshown his philanthropy and in using to do good fitge Breckinridge and Henry Watterson to Bicai d gives them the presidency and both houses and everything in a sling and jntheirknow what to do with what they have got when our Kentucky Billygoat got to Congress by telling us what an Elysium we would the Democrats should get into power and give us tariff reform And yet they have not reformed worth a cent and do not propose to do so or to do anything else but draw their salaries I repeat that the woman who does not want a vote and want it bad is not much of a woman Georgore KysoC C Moore Lexington Ky Dear Brother At a meeting of a few of the Prohibitionists of this last Saturday the undersigned were a pointed write some the leading Prohibitionists of the trict asking them to meet here on t discussesome matters to the futu districtisYour requestedYours JAMRS B FlNNKU R L GARRISON Georgetown KyjMay 1w- Mantles Mantles We offer ont of the largest and most complete lines of wood and iron mantles StylescanAlso the best and largest Stock f Builders JTaterialtTo befound in central Kentucky We keep on hand a full Stock of FARMING IMPLEMENTS Such as Farm Wagons Disc Harrows Tongue and Tongueless Cultivators ofCarriagesBUS BUGGYCOS makes Books of information sent free Write for prices COtShort Stt Lexington Ky rHICKSManagerf Sffpets Ir Ctirtains Oil Glottis Houie Furnfeliing Goods 31 North Broadway Kentuckyd Wm PurnellBookseller Stationer and Printert KYdnndlCollegeText ar11nIJlIEtcatKYaatForLat Patterns in Wall Papers SEE T T SKILLMAN h SynSHOE FKCTSWe keep the 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COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION for Book Keeping and etc Nearly 10000 Graduates 100 being located in Lexington W R SMITH President r FOUSHEE GO iot C o CUNNINGHAM SOLE PARTNER J WHOIESAIK liKTAII DKAIKIt PAINTSGlass Brushes Materials and J House Painter and Decorator j 21 WEST SnoRT STREET LEXINGTON KY J M HKYS j i MANUFACTUIIE CF HARNESS == SADDLESi BRIDLES COLLARS WHIPSrREPAIRING DONE NEAT AND CHEAP 9 North Mill Street t 1lMIDWAY KY f IWoman Everlastingly Skins JCousin Willie that the famous or rather infa INowRreckinridgePollard suite has the verdict given we will turn away from this dark with all its foulness and polluting in flunces Man is fallible and therefore his judgment cannot be infallible or beyond contradiction and criticism These are paliatiouforJudge Bradly was partial and unjust in his rulings Be that as it may there is tonguedliarbe that decree as it may all will silent be as to the justice of itThe issue before the people of the Ashland district today is not between Breckinridge and Miss Pollard but rather between morality as against im morality for has he not made name a synonym for falseness and immorality contemptibleitthe Bourbon News and copied by several of our exchanges trying to cry out persecution by saying that Mr Breckinridge had not been granted the rights usually accorded the worst criminal a fair impartial trial as if he did PerhapsMisshad better secure the aid of the illus ious Phil Thompson and the dastardly pistolheNo Mr Breckinridge stands self con demned He has admitted all that his friends of the Ashland district had felt sure he could successfully deny He acknowledged on the witness stand that he had lied time and again For instance swearing on the witness stand that he had never defaulted in a professional advancementjprosecution or in other words from the penitentiary That he did become to involved has been a matter of public notoriety in Kentucky and all of the older men know it too And yet he swears to a point blank lie that rightly ought to land him behind prison bars for the rest of his life where he could have time and space for repentance for the meanness he has been doing all his life and so adroitly hidden till now goingtomen of our fair land go default lie steal and seduce for it has been proven that he has been guilty of all and we will stand by you andtuphold ou in it all Men of the Ashland district I cannot believe you are so lost to all that is good 1andtrue as to be willing that this shall go down to other generations and be made a fact in history that fur fathers deliberately voted for a man that has so offof man you are willing to send to Con toIinridge If be is there is one virtue he possesses over the smooth tongued liar that of not trying to pose as an angel of light make long prayers and coated Sunday School speeches to innocent pure children Yes Mr Owens is a gambler and God knows that is bad enough say he does not gamble now through policy but he had better cease doing wrong from policy even if there is no s higheunotive I ask any right think ing fair minded man to honestly decide which is worse gambling or open con was not only with Miss Pollardseve club that he has ever been member of has felt sure of his business in this respect and all this while his pure true wife still lived and clung to that love and protection that he had sworn at the marriage altar to let me beg of you think before you vote and dont dont for Gods sake your childrens and your countrys sake wilfully put this blot on our fair land The words of Capt R H Fitz hugh a prominent writer and thinker have the right ring to them when he says I am and have been a friend to Mr if I thought he would take myadvice I would say to him now todratheir votes for you he is sur prised that Mr shouldask his friends to indorse his immorality and thus say to their sons that morality counts for Capt J R Berry says I am a Confederate and have always voted for Breckinridge but he has left me no ex cuse for doing so now he has admitted every thing that the people of the Ash land district promised months ago to wait for him to deny A man that will lie and impose on his friends as he has on Mrs Blackburn is not the man to represent me inCongres Or will you say as some do that you will vote for him no matter what he does or like Will S Marshall a well known publisher gives his reason for wanting to send him back to Congress that he will be ostracized socially and will have time to attend to business Is this the kind of a man you want to represent you in Congress one so vile and immoral that society utterly ignores him What influence do you suppose he will have in Washington own timony was given and it was seen how he in every point Men who ex pect to vote and think what an awfully serious thing this is and of the good men whom you have honoredand who have honored you by being true to the trust imposed in them and dont yourftSSselvessin as the smooth slicktongued Hilly I ONIY A Mrs Sarah Sedgewick of Mem phis Tenn tells what Wom en think about Breckinridge and Miss Pollard To the Editor of the Blue Grass Blade During the discussion of the late un pleasantness in Washington the women of this country could not help wondering why the men were so worked up by the fear of the terrible effects ofthe Pollard Breckinridge case on the female mind This was shown by their writings in the press and the remarks of Col Butter juryAsdemonstrations of feeling that his client was on the losing sideit was but nat ural that he should deplore the bringing of the suit But women fail to see the reason for this general outcry on the part of men about its alarming effects upon the morals of American women and rise to remark that the men had better look within for a mares nest Women have always striven far harder than they to uphold the standard of morality and the less men meddle with them the better The women shrewdly suspect that the real reason of their terrible alarm is lest r r asimw 1Pi rftJf some other Medeline Pollard incited thereto by the success of this one should go and do likewise If every Miss Pollard in the United States were to arise in righteous indignation and seek redress through the courtsit would certainly hurt no woman nor would it ruin the thousand souls as Col Butter manythousandbeen born If all sinning men were sure of the punishment that Col Breckinridge has received it would have a most whole alreadyinwarning This is inferred from the vast amount of highly moral talk men have indulged in for the last few weeks both in the press and out and doubtless suddenlydiscovered home It has not hurt good women and has only served to make vice seem more loathsome than ever to respectable ple of both seves and to intensify their desire to see the Augean stables cleaned out no matter how heroic the treatment One sided measures have never proven efficacious Justice knows no sex and bythely For theres is a sin that banes them with one bane It is not of disgustingwho has been thus wronged should be browbeatep from seeking redress through the courtsout of sentimental regard for the publics feelings As the sun purifies so will the search investigation into such evils andthe punishment of the wrong doer It is in the pursuance of the policy of cloaking and covering up such vile deeds that they grow and flourish for sin loves the enough the men are all crying out the woman is getting off too easy she has sinned also and yet she is going on the stage goiifg to get gold and glory Why has she not received the usual stoning from her own sex For this reason Back of Miss Pollard this one woman who has escaped a ston ing in nineteen hundred years no won der the show managers want her is every woman in America Her revenge is their revenge This was shown by the interest took in the trial and their universal delight in her triumph That Miss Pollard was ele vated was but a mere incident of a desire to degrade the man who has drawn up on himself the intense hatred and con tempt of every woman in America it is believed with the single exception of Mrs Bullitt of The unpar alleled impudence of the man who after confessing his iniquities nonchalantly remarked that such exposures as would ruin the woman only injure the man was the straw that broke the camels back The worm has turned Every reportsfrontdaughterhashim also if she can accomplish it His words and his manner said thusI am moralityisand sin and the woman whom I have ruinedwill go to perdition and I will go to CongressAs one deems her blamelessfarfrom it though all must concede that she was most sinned against still seeing all that she had suffered no one can begrudge hernny comfort to be derived from stage littleshould treat her as it has for years past alUICJughfully emolIumentsoratory pay her six thousand a year and send her to Congress she might at least attain to the high moral standard of the average Congressman And right now the women of this country want to know Congressisgood moral character as well as a poor woman who applies for a clerkship in one of the departments Surely the one office is more exalted than the other and demands a more exalted character to fill it We would as leave have our pen sions patents and mail dished out to us by an person male or female as to have our laws made by such The closing years of the nineteeth centure will witness the beginning of a new eraand it is time Breckinridge and Pollard are only straws which show anydoubtcyclonejustdiscoveredawake she is very wide awake and is graduallydawnedfor nineteen hundred years been ston ing the wrong party That there must have been something radically wrong with that plan is evident since it has been signally unsuccessful in improving tae moral condition of the is disobeying the teaching and example of the Master she has brought upon the world most of the trouble and sorrows that exist That stoning the woman and letting the sinning man go free she has defeated her own object She has set a premium on mans immorality and made his opportunities for sinning and leading a all the more easyand convenient By stoning and ostracizing the erring woman thus depriving her of all opportunity of earning an honest ningherown selfrepect which is denied to no man however much he may have sinned she is driven to the only alternative left open to her from which she turns with the sense of this injustice rankling in her heart and with all the venom of a woman scorned to prey the pure homes from which she is spurned Instead of couraging her to reform and lead a life of decency thus making fewer and fewer instead of more and more the portunities for sinful living for both man and woman she is driven an out spotsfrontgood people would avertwrecking their homes breaking their hearts troying their loved onesdisease in famy and death S S Memphis Tenn April How mv ICIiiHiiiaii talks about It ST Louis May Dear Cousin Charlie Kindly send me the amount of my in debtedness to the Blade and I will gladly pay itthe rich mans as any or dinary number is in my judgment well worth a dollar- I would that my tongue could utter the thoughts which arise in me when I upontheborhood in the past weeks The truth is ht and it will prevail Verys111cerely yours W G Honored by tile Covhl ton Itec ord The Covington Record has done me the honor to print in full long edi torial in which I prognosticate another American war dwphi4 k LCJheres Southgate Editor of The Herald- I do not go to church because I have sucked the orange dry and it only a mock orange to begin with The anythinkingoriginal sin and vicarious righteousness burning hell and fiery devil that I have heard over and over again all my life I gave up church attendance because I usually came home swearing after listening to their absurd and blasphemous teaching For I hold it to be rapedJew a disliketoJesusAgain me almost daily contact with preachers and I find them no better jealousytheyand I know there is not one out of fifty who believes his own doctrine One of the leading Methodist preachers in cago told me La thought the plan of vation was absurd nonsense and one of the most prominent evangelists in this country who was a schoolmate of mine told me not long ago when we were talking religion that h didnt believe a word of it He said I whoop it up in revival meetings because get good money Why then should I fool away my preachinggard as only a fairy tale with which to hoodwink those who never stop to thinkH L KChicago Herald oOwens will never overcome that speechsaid Heathen Moore to The Democrat Nothinglike it since Demos thenes thundered against Phillips tion Moore and Hodges were stand ing in the street together and we con gratulated them on the hoax and their unity Moore wore a white icecream freezer linen duster and held a grip and he and Breckinridge were the most picturesque pair to be seen in the throng Moore hurried off after inviting us to a glass of Hires root beer for his train as he had an engagement in Cin cinnati to pr Mohammedan doc trines Hodges had out an extra edition of upOnedoes not live in Kentuckyand another said by ganny amt dees BettyIBreckinridgeVoued another and the house roared with laughter as B smiled through his anger and tears McAfee Duncan divided his time be tween Breckinridge and Moore and he says Moore is a great man Moore and Mack took a drink together of the dry sort soda water Moore lives on exer cise and blue lick The sermon of Charles Moore at Cin cinnati Sunday was 94 pages and treated of 437 subjects He took a crack at creation these cracking times warmlyreceivedNicholasvilleDemocrat Presbyterian Lady who wants to see Behind the Bars Mrs James R a Presbyterian who has her membership at Mt HorehWillie Breckinridges church has from the very beginning been one of the BladeamidShe has sent the book to a lady friend in France and regularly sends her copy of the Blade there Mrs Halev great desire to see my unpublished book Behind the Bars that I wrote while in jail in Paris I will publish it just as soon as the last copy of the Rational View is sold I think the Rational View is by con siderable odds the biggest tiling that I have ever done It is a neatly bound book and I sell it for 50 cents postage prepaid I think the book is fully worth that and I take it as a kindness when one orders it from me I wilt take the stump for Billy if he does A dispatch to the Courier Journal says that Elder John S Sweeney of Paris has been called upon to run for the event of Breckinridges nomination geraniumcomes into the race I shall take the BillyBilly tough but he would not put me in jail because I do not believe in s religion Cincinnati Commercial reports me wrong The Cincinnati Commercial has report ed me as saying I am in favor of mak ing Sunday or any other daya day of restI am opposed to making Sun dayor any other day a day of rest I all Sundays and Sabbaths are bad institutions and encourage ignorance and drunkenness The oration itself cannot be praised 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Residence No 44 Barr St- reetJTIILLERDEALER I- NHARIDWARE IRO1 STEEL22 W Main St Lexington Ky TIXI Jt t a t rr ANTIBRECKINRIDGE MeetingA part of the Lexington Transcripts report of Opera House Proceedings Never in Kentucky if indeed in Amer ica or the world has there been so great and so grand an aggregation of the in telligence and morals of any country to protest against the immoralityof anyone man as that met at the Lex ington Opera house Monday May 14th to express in the most unqualified terms its deep detestation condemna tion and repudiation of the Dishonora ble William Campbell Preston Breckin ridge liar libertine and deadbeat simplybecauseself as to license any man to speak with impunity almost any evil of him but of the greater two of these charges he stands guilty under his own oath and that he is a man who will not at all is largely known in businesscircles I am by no means certain nor have I been from the beginning of his Pollard exposure that murder or particeps properlybelongthat murder of the foulest and blackest dyethe infanticide of his own illicitly begotten progeny That children were born to this animal union is by them admitted There were several of these children and children of their kind ways live in spite of the devil and the doctors if they have half a chance That the parents of these children were of unusual bodily no ex pert in America isto deny and yet that any of them lived beyond nobodyknowsing his crimes in religious hypocrisy as Breckiuridge has done is capable of any crime and he and his paramour should be arrested and examined and be made to show by the proper certificates of physicians or acoucheurs that those children died from natural and unavoidable causes- Judge Durham has been by some ad speechbeforeBreckinridge as a whoremonger I honor the grand old man because he is not afraid to talk Saxon to those who are proud of their Saxon blood Billy Breck is not the kind of a man to be handledwith sugar tongs and handed around on a rose leaf as Fannie Fern said of N P Willis The crimes of such men as Breckinridge are in these days of journalistic prudery so sugarcoated with French terms and Latin technicali ties that the of the land chargedThemongers and adulterers God will judge and when a degenerate clergy bedecked gewgawIfinical to quote the King James version of the New Testament I who only en dorse its plain blunt honest home spun morals am glad that a man like Judge Durham though once himself in the Congress of the United States can now come to the front from the secular walks of life and blast this grey headed hypocrite in the language that the En lish New has furnished for that purpose fi11edImany being unable inhad in it but little if any of that by durned stuff that they call the elite LexingtonTheythe ward bummers and the hoodlums wire happily distinguished by their ab sence The people who composed the audience were the very pick and choice of the intellect and morals of the Grass of Kentucky and they were there without regard to politics or religion I as secretary up the heathen and receiving even more than my share of kind allusions from the Christian speakers The speech ofJudge Durham intrin sically strong gams additional force front his high record in Congress and his grand and pure life as he goes in and out among us in his daily walk and con versation and his recital of his experi ence that they were the iron tongues and not the silver tongues that did the good in the Congressional affairs of the nation will rob this community of tbatIwagged in a brass cheek and an iron jawThe letter of Judge Morton which I felt honored even to have the privilege of reading to that assembly marks him prominently among the men of true steel our state We all know that it is to the interest bytheplaced him in the estimation of our best people far ahead of any ring in this or any other State He had been a brave companion in arms with Breckinridge and in common with ail the rest of us appreciated and geniusbutsense must see that the fact of Breckin ridges genuis is all the greater reason why he should not be allowed to cast the Upas shadow of his influence upon this devoted land McGarveythepion of Lexingtons morals were clear cut concise forcible moderate and con servative though reasoned with the At tic salt wit that his name and Hibernian extraction warrant In this connection it is proper to that the onlyhiatus in enjoyment of the casion was that Mulligan the prince of Irish wits was not present or perfectclamorstage and give us a sample of his dis BreckinridgeProf is was simply forced on to the stage and forced to speak and he did the force and beauty that distinguish all his efforts in that line and I want it remembered to credit of Prohibition oC1casionwho have distinguished themselves in Prohibition work My purpose in the carrying out of the prograni of the evening was to have Judge Mulligan close the speeches of the day and I think that it was a mistake ol the honorable chairman W Hawkins fromiIcal death knell of Breckinridge At 210 oclock Rev R T Mathews stepped to the front of the stage and stated that as Judge Morton was com pelted to be absent he nominated Mr W Hawkins for Chairman His mo tion was quickly seconded and Mr Hawkins was elected Chairman The newspaper men present were appointed secretaries and at the Chairmans re quest Mr Charles C Moore read the fol lowing letter from Judge Morton JUDGE MORTONS IKTTKR 1B9tMrmittee r j Ill jSc regretthatchester Ky prevents my participation FayetteCountyprotesting against the renomination for Congress by the Democratic party of Colonel Breckinridge With a majority of our people I share the opinion that the renomination of Colonel Breckin inride would carry with it the im plication that our either ap prove of or are indifferent to the immor alities confessed by Colonel Breckinridge on the trial at Washington While I do not believe that any con siderable portion of the followers of Colonel Breckinrid e are conscious that their support of him involves such an sUPJortedfor his misfortune Christian forgiveness of his sin or the belief that he can best serve his district in Con gress a close analysis of such reasons supports the conclusion stated Some of such reasons while creditable to man nature but illustrate misguided responses of generous nature and some exigenciesof such reasons clearly shows that his confessed immoralities are minimized or that forgiveness is confounded with the issue stated from which there is no escape I can not doubt that a renomination of Colonel Breckinridge will be disastrous to the best interest of the Ashland District the State of Ken tucky and the Democratic party of the nation These times impose duties up on every member of the Democratic par tyeach of us must meet that duty and I have confidence in the intelligence and integrity of my party and I can not doubt the Democraoof the Ashland district will issue presented to them as they have the is sues in the past and that the result will be approveIdulge in harsh or hard words in criticis ing those who differ with us I trust the result of the meeting will be a manly appeal to the intelligence and courage of this dictrict Trusting your meeting will in every sense secure that success its purposes merit I am with greatI respect J R chairman then introduced Prof J W McGarvey who made a speech which was well received and which impressionAfter Committee on Resolutions consisting of W W Es till Hugh ONeil J M Graves D FiFrazee G A DeLong and James Mci Phelpstheadopted by a unanimous rising vote Whereas The people of this Con gressional district have been shocked and grieved by the revelations recently made of hideous immorality on the part of our Representative in Congress con tinued during his whole vice Whereas The prompt reelection of a man of such would necessarily be regarded by the whole civilized world as an approval or at least a condonation of his cnmes against social order would bringupon ourselves a large share of the disgrace which now attaches to him would be setting an example before the youth of our State and of our country subversive of all moral sentiment and would especially proclaim to aspiring ofKentuckyrance to high official preferment there fore be Resolved by the men and omnen here assembled That we remonstrate in the name of the district of our beloved State and tJerenominationThat we hereby pledge ourselves to do all in our power that is lawful and honorable to prevent his nomination 3 That we hail the hearty and almost unanimous cooperation of the women of this district in this our uprising against a great wrong as a guarantee of the righteousness and purity ofour cause 4 That we recommend the calling of meetings like this and the adoption of similar resolutions in every county in districtMr C Clay presented andread the following resolutions which were unanimously adopted Whereas The Ashland district of Kentucky has been huown and honored ef all men by the faithful and honorable Clayjohnand Blackburn and Whereas The present incumbent W C P Breckinridge has by his conduct caused the eyes of the Nation to be turn expectancytherefore Resolved That in this hour of supreme trial we affirm our support to honor truth and morality and plege our lives and our honor to their maintanance Second That we most urgently re quest our senior Senator Hon J C S Blackburn whom it has been the pleas ure of the district often to honor to ob tain leave of absence from the Senate protestfromBreckinridgeThird resolu tions be sent to the United States Senate as petition for leave of absence for Senator Blackburn After Mr Clay had read his resolution Judge Phelps read the followingwhich was m by the Whereas W C P Breckinridge has announced himself as a candidate for election to Congress from the Ashland district notwithstanding his confession under oath of flagrant and habitual licentiousness and hypocrisy therefore resolved That we women of Kentucky and protestrepresentative of this district We believe that such an endorsement of W C P Breckinridge at the polls would be a disgrace to Kentucky a shame upon womanhood an insult to womanhood a sinful example to youth and a menace to society and the home 3 We earnestly implore our fathers husbands and brothers to wipe out the stain that W C P Breckinridge has on the fair fame of the Ashland was adopted unanimously jDurhamspeech in which he paida glowing to the ladies perfectMulligan after nearly five minutes of constant yelling the audience found the Judge would not respond Professor J J Rucker ol Georgetown then made a few remarks denouncing Breckinridge then Rev E L Southgate adjourned the meeting with prayer CuriosityBIUE LentuckyEnclosed money of a heathen and a Prohibitionist I think your ideas on those subjects are not far off but I dont like your manner of treating them I want your paper a literary curiosity Direct Lieut JohnsonSault Mich f 7 The Lexington Obsever Says J Was the Most Popular Con gressional Candidate Before the AntlnrecltlnrldKe Meet hilt msColof the late AntiBreckinridge meeting at the Lexington opera house says entirelyharmonious Breckinridge but beyond this an appar ent difference of existed From demonstrations made by the audience there were number of gentle men whe could have counted friends on the floor had their names been an nounced from the platform as choice of CongressAmong would have probably more votes than any one excepting possibly C C Moore and the others would have come in number in about the following order Hon Milton J Durham Col Wm R JRuckering the strength of either of the an nounced candidates as none of them were present in person or had a recog nized representative there The resolutions passed were strong and well defined and the order of the meeting decorous Long Questions and Short Answers LEXINGTON KY May 94 Mr Moore I would like to ask you a few questions not that I pride myself on my intellect or learning You say you believe Jesus was a good man and also that you are a friend to woman Why should you believe Jesus was a good man did he misrepresent himself in claiming to be the son of God In respect are you a friend to woman Would you take the faith in God from them and place them back in heath enism You say you would give woman the ballot I would vote if I voting stop the saloon drunkeness and and corruption thats all There are enoughmen to make the laws and gov ern the country if drunkeness and ruption were suppressed 3 What does woman want with the ballot if the grace of God is taken from her You call yourself womans friend andwould take the greatest comfort woman has on earth You say are not trying to change any ones belief then prohibitioninfidelism and such terrible things about the Bible and edit a prohibition paper or quit 4 You do not believe there is a God and I know there is a God and if he had not been a true friend to me I would have filled a suicides grave I have had excruciating bitter terrible sorrows it was impossible to bear alone and there was no human being to help me I turned in prayer to the great good all powerful God forhelp He lifted a great weight from my heart and soul then I could smile and even feel happy You may say that I am just a weak credulous woman why I believe such things and not self sufficient and self sustaining like a big strong clear headed man as you are I thank the Lord that I am weak and credulous if it makes me believe in the Lord Jesus Christ I am thankful there are a many men as large clear headed and intilectual and you feel your self to be who has studied theology and believe as I do 5 What would woman or man be Without the Christian religion 6 What would you be Would like to have an infidel wife and children You were raised by Christian parents but they madea very studytheologying when you never had been converted and fell so far short of religion 8 Were you acting the hypocrite when Supposingtlmereation of the mind that caused people to believe sucha thing what good would it do you or the world to destroy that be lief which has done more to christianize and civilize the world than any other lief And if right or wrong you will not persistincountry and every one has right to belief and so they have and do not suppose any one will try to com pel you to go to church or believe differ ent from what you do but would be de lighted to know you did manytruetaken A great minded peo ple were delightedwlmen you first com menced your paper as a prohibition sheet and thought it was a prohibition rebukinghypocrites the help of the people to put down drunkeness and corruption 10 Are you trying to do it paperWhatDo you expect to accomplish any good You that for high qualities of head and heart and for ularity among people of kinds there not a family of the size of yours in Fay ette county that and ordi would be unbecoming in you to say this but such vicious and defamatory articles are almost daily printed about you that you are driven to this in self defence Now why is this Do you write anything hurtful to other peoples Are you doing toward other as you would like to be done by anythingwrongwrong and probably those who are writ ing about you do not think it wrong peoplehavedisagreeablethoughts gious principles and other peoples feel ings time to keep their thoughts to themselves and do unto other as they would like to be done byA goodtimingsNoIn2Yes 3Wants it to vote against Breckin ridge 4 Ifyou know that that settles it 5 Heathen 6A heathen 7YesSNoGreat good 9Quite true t2Yes Because they are liars qYesj had people Cant see itThe grammar and spelling are yours TEMPERANCE SONG BoyWords in Silver SPRAGUE tf Sandy Creek N Y 1 1t 4 Agents Wanted for the Blade I want agents to sell the on the streets and to get subscribers for it in every town in the United States and Canada For particulars address the editor D ADLER SON Jewelers and- Money Brokers Watches and Jewelry Repaired By qpjjiBQtentworkman 17 South Upper St Eexingtori Kentucky Sample Copies I will gladly send sample copies free of any Charge oan one who mar ask them andw distnbute them as he orhemaY think to my ad vantagei 4 NOW OUR We J B Simrall SUCCESSOR RICHARDSON Corner and Mill Streets l Ntih Blue Water from the Celebrated Upper Blue Tack Springs Nicholas County Ky For all constitu tional diseases it is fine Highest honors awardedat the Worlds Fair Special attention given to cooperage and bottling Every cask guaranteed AND NICE Shipped from the Springs Beware of bogus waters Addres all to- E C HAWKINS CO Proprietors BLUE SPRINGS KY R S STRADER SON Sole Agts Lex Ky The Man Who Wrote Thisin The Lexington Press is a Damn ed Liar EDITOR PRESS At the risVof being called thick head ed I am goinptbe ask a question How is it a of ministers and ladies w reach and worship Jesus Christ shou d appoint as secretary of that meeting a man who is under indictment in the ourt for blaspheming the name of this same Jesus Christ who it is claimed s the who areoppised to is tne worse the immorality of Col the blasphemyof C C MooreThe one who was moral and has acknowledged his sin and abject repentence is spit the preachers while he who deaawes the name of Christ and His which is an unpardonable sin and glo ries in it is taken to ministerial arms and elevated to a place of honor in a meeting that is run by preachers Please explain this R That the man who wrote that is as he suggests thick headed goes without sayingbut in addition to is like Breckinridge a damned liar The man R is probably like some of the other psucdo writers against me in the Press a mere figment of the Press vivid but maudlin imagination and un til his personality is plainly given in the PresS my language is to apply to the whole Press gang In the last issue to a Mar mnMahoney of St I auLirtcpriest d beautiful character who is my personal friend and whom I dearly love I used this language in an swer to his printed article that was in my paper and to his long personal and and loving and religious letter tome that contained 500 to help me I gave to your learned argument all weight that in my judgment it de served augmented by the personal prejudice that I have for you and still Jesus ofNazareth seems to me only a good man whose soul like your own was all aflame and aglow with love to man and I believe that it was the grand woman hood of his mother rather than any su madehimand good of earth have been what their mothers and not their fathers have made them It is impossible that any man who has only sense enough to write the card in the Press construe that language to be defamatory of the name of Christ and his holy mother and he maliciously and knowingly lied when he wrote that to why that assembly appointed me itsSecrctary is a question for them and not me to answer Hut I it was because tine people of this ex o ou n and a few of his pajs like R do nT consider blasphe y a crime and do consider Breckin ridges distinguished immorality a crime and they wanted me for a Secretary because my editorial calling fitted me for the purpose and because in a meeting the purpose of which was to discuss the immorality of Breckin ridge and not the blasphemy of Moore it was fitting to seclect as a Sec retary a man who has been prominent as an opponent of Breckinridge Editor C C Moore made a point in his first revived BUDE that struck a responsive chord in every merciful breast He said no doubt readers were expecting him to score Breckinridge as he had done in the days of hia success but that now that noble stag be cause of great weakness had been des perately wounded and was hounding him he disdained to be one of pack He went back on this but it doent change the sentimentKen tuckian While this is substantially correct some explanation necessary to do me justice developmentagain 1 r IM Spring Announcement WE ARE RECEIVING STOCK OF SPRING GOODS T Everything New and Carefully Selected 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