The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1879-05-14
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Tho Democratic party In breckenridge have
met In county csnvention and nominated .
wealthy tobacco dealer and merchant to be thcii
candidate to represent them In the lower House
Of the next General Assembly Of Kentucky
The candidates interest Is in no way directly
identified with tho interests Of the laborine
people and we are determined to have a csndi.
date on the National Grccnback Labor platform
TO compete with him for the oficc, but have mol
yet selected our man. p.D. PEsrcK.
The above communication appears in q
recent issue Of the Acricultnrist.Lcgal Ten,
der Il, VIC presume, speaks by the card,
and exposes the animus of more than Mr..
Penick towards our candidate. We can
not allow the latter's misrepresentation Of
Mr.. Pierce to pass unnoticed. Had that
gentleman been miscr and boarded every
dollar earned during long life of honest
toll, he would be an exceedingly wealthy
man to-day. As it was, and is, he has al,
ways been charitable, liberal and public
spirited citizen, who has accumulated q fair
competency, which supports his family in
comfort, without ostentation, and with lib
eral and open>handed hospitality.
Robert X. Pierce came to this county
more than thirty years ago, young man,
without dollar in the world, but with arms
full Of strength, thews strung to industry
and heart filled with the determination to
succeed. OF humble parcntagc, he had no
one to give him a start in life, but was COM
PEELED to make his own way in the world.
He went to work with will He avoided
evil companions and vicious associations,
and by close application to business, saving
instead Of squaudering bis earnings, he
is to-day living comfortably, COMFORTING
himself decently, respected by all
whose good opinion is valuable, n worthy
member Of society and the church, an or.
nament to our town and county, and, take
him all in all, most excellent exemplar
for the youth of the community.
That he is now, or that he has ever BEEN
an antagonist of the farmer and mechanic,
is an imputation too silly and childish to
be seriously noticed. Why, he has paid
out more money to the farmers and me-
chanics of Breckenridge county for their
produce and labor, during the years he has
been in business, than the entire so-called
Greenback party of the county combined.
He has ever paid the highest prices-and
always cash-ever paid in the county for
tobacco, as our farmers will testify; he has
erected more buildings, and paid more
money to mechanics therefor, than any
ten named men in the county. And yet
man like this is to be branded as one whose
interests are in no way directly identified
with the interests Of the laboring people"
We do not know the extent of Mr.. Penick's
landed possessions as farmer, but we are
not afraid to venture the assertion that Mr..
Pierce owns and pays taxes on five acres
of farming lands to his one, aud leave the
decision to the county tax books
Mr.. Pierce, as member Of the county
board Of magistrates, has proved himself
to be scrupulous, energetic, and ever-ready
in furthering and fostering the best inter.
csts of the county, never lending his voice
or vote to visionary and expensive schemes
for squanderng the peoples money, or as.
senting to projects that would increase tax.
alton without producing compromising re-
suits. True and faithful in his private re,
Iations true and faithful in his business
transactions, true and faithful to public
trusts, he is one eminently fitted to perform
that other and higher trust for which his
party have put him forward, and to which
We earnestly hope the people of Brecken-
'idge county will almost unanimously set
he seal of their approval at the polls.