The Bourbon news. [volume] (Millersburg, Ky.) 1881-1883, 1883-07-17
AN INTERVIEW WITH CAPT. THOMAS.

Meeting Capt. James NJ. Thomas, one OF
the driver-wheels of the Kentucky Union
Railway yesterday morning, the NEWS APP
piled the pumping process in his usual
brusque manner, and drew courteous and
cheerful replies to all questions asked, as
follows:
"When did you return from New York and
Boston?"
saturday night"
Anything to communicated"
"Yes. Pennsylvania and New Jersey are
the best farmed States in the Union. The
grain yield is heavy"
Anything further?'
eyes. Ben Butler is, think, the strongest
candidate that can be presented by the
Democracy for the Presidency"
"Why so2''
"He is a Democrat from principle; has
made more points and.fewer mistakes than
any man we have prominently claiming
Presidential honors."
"The Republican papers and some Demo-
cratic claim that he is played out; could not
be reelected Governor Of his Slater"
Yes: 1 so read, and so talked the bankers
met, but 1 took pains to enquire among the
middle and working class in Boston and
elsewhere, and found that they regard Butler
as their champion against monopol1es, arls-
tocracies and political cOrruptionists. They
will vote for him despite the dictation OF
capitalists. The Republican leaders hate
him and fear him more than any other man
They know the operatives will vote for him. u
That's very interesting, but we want to
know about the Kentucky Union"
''Well, arrangements are about perfected
to let twenty miles of the Kentucky Union
''What time do you expect to begin?"
SPY the First Of August"
"At what point?"
eat or near Hedges Station, running MP
| the Red River, in Powell county"
| "GoOd. That will give the road to Paris
won't it?"
81 hope so, but not necessarily. To Hedges
Station is the best line, even to Winchester
and Lexington. Lexington will bid for 1t
1t would be a valuable connection for the
Louisville & Lexington road, and Cincinnati
Southern at that point"
| "You must not let it go to Lexington"
"Not if can help it, but you know a par
| of our company live there, and it is natura
they should want it to come to that point
'What could Bourbon county do to secure
it-say via North Middletown and on u
Georgetown, should the P. G. & F. not buiId?'
81 have thought of that and talked 1T witt
our board. 1 made this suggestion: Tina
if Bourbon county would subscribe 100000 tt
the capital stock in this company, with tn
privilege on her part to convert same int
first mortgage bonds after five years, so tina
the road could get start and the count!
run no greater risk than the payment
interest for the interval, that in such even
we could afford to run through the county.
''What about the P. F. & G. road? Can
you combine with it?"
We met certain of the gentlemen connect
ed with that enterprise and the subject wa
discussed, with no definite result to thi
time. They are respectable gentlemen.
don't know certainly what they will do, bu
they will act for themselves in due time"
''Do you say that the proposition you hav
outlined will secure the road through tn
county,"
81 feel confident it would, and not only 81
but from Frankfort to the Virginia line
am doing all can to develope our.own tow
and county, not to be unfair to our comps
ny. 1 think I see mutually OF interest.
have talked enough"