People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1894 — THEY PROTEST. [ARTICLE]

THEY PROTEST.

Notable Anti-Breckinridge Gathering at Lexington. Lexington, Ky., May 16.—The meeting at the opera house Monday afternoon to protest against Breckinridge’s candidacy was attended by aD enormous crowd. The speakers were: Judge Durham, comptroller ot the treasury in Cleveland’s first administration; Gen. Sam Hill, adjutant general of Kentucky under Gov. Buckner, and Prof. McGarvey, of Kentucky. Scores of leading women occupied boxes and seats in the house. Over the stage was a banner inscribed: “The Honor of the Ashland District Must and Will Be Preserved.” Monday was county court day and the city was crowded. The best people of Lexington and Fayette county turned out, and the meeting, from a standpoint of morality, was a tremendous success. The opera house was filled and 500 people were turned away. The women’s resolutions were as follows: “Whereas, W. C. P. Breckinridge has announced himself a candidate for reelection to congress from the Ashland district, notwithstanding his confession under oath of flagrant and habitual licentiousness and hypocrisy; therefore, “Resolved, 1. That we, women of Lexington and Payette county, Ky., do solemnly protest against his renomlnaiion as the representative of this district “2. We believe that such an indorsement of W. O. P. Breckinridge at the polls would be a disgrace to Kentucky, a shame upon manhood, an Insult to womanhood, a sinful example to youth and a menace to both society and the borne. "3. We earnestly implore our fathers, husbands and brothers to wipe out the stain that W. C. P. Breckinridge has brought on the fair fame of the Ashland district.” The resolutions passed by the men are similar except that they recommend the calling of similar meetings in every county in the district. Chicago, May 15.—Directors of the Union League ciuo voted on Monday to expell Congressman W. C. P. Breckinridge from honorary membership. This action was unanimous among those directors who were present at the meeting. President Wilson was not present. Breckinridge is given one month in which to prepare his defense if he cares to hand one in. It is not believed that he will do so. The action of the directors is believed to be generally satisfactory among the club’s members.