Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1894-06-01
Bobbitt at the Mt Vernon court.
To the Editor Interior Journal

MT. VERSoN, MAY 30. Circuit court
convened here Monday, large crowd in
attendance, The judges instructions to
the grand jury able and comprehensive
as usual. Among other things he told
the jury that there WAS great clamor in
the country about the laws not being en-
forced, tina. the people expected that
when man was indicted that convic-
ton ought 10 follow. He SAID one reason
why 80 many acquittals grand juries
frequently indicted upon insufficient evil
dence dislike 90 disagree with my
able and most learned preceptor ia the
law, but will tell you whore the blame
lies lis not With the examining courts,
who generally send the guilty on Tor far
ther trial, It's not with the grand juries,
who generally indict the guilty, but tits
suborning OF witnesses aud perjury be-
fore the trial jury, witnesses being run
of, and refusing 10 tell before the petit
jury the same story they told before the
grand Jury, and a false and mistaken
sympathy tina, prevails in the breast Of
the petit jury that finds no Judgment in
the bosom OF the grand jury.
A case occurred not long since in the
Rockcsstle circuit court in which the ex-
aiming court discharged it's duty, the
grand jury did likewise bat from II fall
ure OF the petit jury TO discharge it's
duty by Furnishing the criminal, the de-
PENDANT escaped with impunity and the
consequences of that scquittal were most
direiul Unless our laws are rigidly an
forced with the spirit OF anarchy com
mission, and socialism, with which our
people are becoming inoculated by the
foreign element, the time is not far dis
tant when We can be no longer governed
or ruled by law.
The republicans held convention
here Monday to appoint delegates to
their Congressional convention and Col
w. .. Bradley was called upon for a
speech aud made an able and mos, beau.
tlful one. lie showed how the demo
cratic Senate would not pass the Wilson
tsrih bill, although the party sas pleds
ed to tariff reform, and showed how our
party Was betrayed by It's leaders hy
their treason and incompetency. Ailthe
woes aud SHOWS Of the season were
charged TO the democracy And as a
further evidence OF the Almighty's dis
pleasure, be had placed upon the flowery
brow OF May, an animated wreath of
snow, and extended the whitening frost
line TO the Gulf OF Mexico The colonel
did not say this in rhyme IA YOU see
have but he said IL in beautiful prose.
He said when the republicans should
come into power in 1897. the seasons
would resume their natural rotation and
God Almighty would be- pleased. told
Bradley afterwards that wanted to add
yes, and the devil himself would Toe de-
lighted. His speech was loudly applaud
ed, and added another laurel TO the tiow.
cry wreath upon his brow.
Monday and Tuesday the gallant little
knight OF the tripod, 4 c. Walton, Was
mere III tut iutcttrt VI tilt bsrh Aouh't
paper that ever gladdened the home of
the countyman.
I'm stopping at the Newcomb Hotel
now kept by Willis Adams and his anna
bile wife. They feed you like a Naboh
in India. had been fasting and pray
ing and perhaps "cursins" cut worms
with my tenants until was very sharp
set from my long ramadan and had it not
been for the elegant dinner I had Just
eaten with my friend, of Gum sulphur,
Gran. Roberts, might have taken sur
felt at the Newcomb Hotel.
No court to-day, National holiday, dec
Grafton day. | will conclude this rather
lengthy letter by giving Judge Morros's
peculiar instruction to the jury in mis-
demeanor case:
Gentlemen of the jury, il you believe
either the witness for the Commonwealth
or the defendant you will find the de-
PENDANT guilty.
FoNTAISE Fox BoBBIrT.