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Show KtntnckUns Fall Oat. Two able Kentuckians, Gov. Beckham and Senator Sen-ator Blackburn, have arrived at the newspaper siage of vituperation in their long standing quarrel. The Senator recently paid his respects somewhat vigorously to the Governor, and the latter has replied re-plied in kind, suggesting that the only public service ser-vice of the Senator that has reached the public prints in the past few years is his advocacy of the claim of former Queen Liliuokalani for f 200,000 compensation for her wounded feelings in the loss of her Hawaiian crown. All of which calls to mind the fact that Blackburn Black-burn has been a Senator from Kentucky, off and on, for about twenty years, and if he has ever accomplished accom-plished anything in the way of public service, the fact has escaped the attention of students of public affairs. Blackburn is a swashbuckler politician who manages man-ages to appeal to the groundlings and gets there with unfailing regularity. He was correctly sized up a few years ago by a smart young man who was running for Congress against him. "When it comes to the tariff question," said this young man, "Mr. Blackburn is like a swan swimming upon the broad bosom of the ocean, all unmindful of the depths beneath." |