Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1890 — He Was a Kentuckian. [ARTICLE]

He Was a Kentuckian.

A little story is told of Congressmen Caruth and McCreary, of Kentucky, illustrative of sectional peculiarities. The nativity of a business man in the mountain region, who had gone into the St ,te from Indiana a dozen years before, was questioned, McCreary holding that he was a Kentuckian and Caruth taking the opposite groands, nnd $5 was ready for the winner. few days afterward the three men met at a hotel in Frankfort, and the two statesmen told the business man they had a i et on him. “Well, what is it?” he said, good-na-turedly, at the same time taking off his overcoat and handing it 1o the colored boy, with the remark. “Becareful, Henry, and don’t let the pistol in the outside pocket knock against the bottle of whisky and break it.” Bnt neither man answered him, and C&rath quietly handed a $5 bill over to McCreary, saying: “That settles it; I’d have sworn in any court, though, that he wasn’t a Kentuckian.” The business man explained later, and then McCreary put his five with Caruth’s and they had champagne with their supper. *