| Show THE SCANDAL REVIVED BRECKIN RIDGES SPEECH A GENERAL ROW HOW roundly round ay iy scored by his opponents his first cifes sister elster writes a blistering letter lexington ky aug 29 the cuy city Is wild with excitement which presages pree ages trouble of 0 a serious character between either colonel breckinridge or some same of his friends on the one side bide and the men who are opposing breckinridge on the stump with the colonels speech as a firebrand it has set a shouldering ing heap ablaze and not a few fen believe the hie trouble will be of a most serious character before the campaign closes judge durham who was so arim unmercifully er excoriated in his speech met the colonel on the street last night said and a wordy war ensued there was no attempt at hostilities by either cither one but the exact language used by them cannot in at be learned as there was only one witness find and he refuses to tall talk at the owens club meeting last night in a short speech judge durham said ald that the speech of colonel referred r e f to was the sliest thins thing he be ever heard tome out ot of the mouth of 0 a man and that lie knew that a gentleman would not wake make such a speech judge Durha mAas followed by judge kinkead who also received a berating at the hands of 0 colonel breckinridge Inri in dee ile he sald bald that hu he did not believe theio theia was in this community a man so debased that ho he would date daie to face a decent audience and utter such thoughts the judge wound up ill his red hot speech by saying 1 I have the courage to tale take him by the throat and say bay to him you perjurer hound and scoundrel talk to me about representing my district and say to me that you are arc the only man who can do it you whom I 1 standing before an audience can denounce like ilke that judge horton who was ivas also roasted by colonel breckinridge Breckinrid go said he intended to reply to speech last night but that as he had to go out out of the city to be gone two days he will postpone positions it until friday night when I 1 hen lie he will address the people at the courthouse A blistering LETTER an open letter has bag been addressed by miss aleso agaty desba deaha sister of colonel first wife to tho the men and women of tile the blue GI biaas ass state slate she denounces denounce colonel breckinridge for offering himself as a candidate for Con congress gregs and calls upon the district to feet a pule man mail lit in his big seat scat in her letter she says that colonel breckinridge win will be returned to congress Congre rs has never tor for a moment entered my mind the very thought of at it Is an insult to tile the state whose boast has been that her ter men were bravo brave and her women virtuous py by Indo In dorsing colonel breckinridge you would accept his arid and colonel thomp sons soles platform that all men lire arc libertines it all the men in the state are arc libertines the women cannot bo be pure arid and your vote for him would be an announcement no to the world of the city of your women I 1 am not troubled about his reelection re election it if politicians succeed in fit re nominating him oi 01 sonic somo other immoral man the leput imputable able portion ot of tile the community wilt will unite on oil a man regardless I 1 gard ardlean ard less leas ot of politics who can lin lift the 11 tied banner it f the ashland district cleanse lt tit stains by it a pure life and bear it with such honor that we who live in washington and have been humiliated rallia milia led ted may ako age in be able to say with fill uplifted heads beads we are Kentuck kentuckians ians the plain truth Is B that of all the immoral delegations in congress that of kentucky has horne the reputation of being belac the worst with the taulbee and breckinridge scandals and the low obscenity of thompson you wont wonder at it |
