Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1897-10-26
SIX PAGES.
THE EXCELLENT DEMOCRATIC
TICKET.

and we have no doubt the repl 1lica
candidates fully agree with him. espt
cially since they suffer so severely b
it. We shall. however, at the risk q
offending their sensibilities. contras
them with the gentlemen the demo
cratic party has named for the Office
to be filled week from to-day.
First comes Sam j. Shackelford, th,
equal il not the superior of the fou
men who are opposing him for appel
late clerk and against whom their com
bined efforts and those of their follow
ers are exerted. He was regularl,
nominated by his party and no charge
of incompetency or lack OF power to
fill the office has ever been made
against him. He will be elected, and
when he is, strange to say, will have
no more power to change our financial
system or thrust free silver upon un-
willing souls chan the commonest man
in the land.
Our nominee for circuit Judge, Hon
NJ C.. Saufey. is by nature, training,
education and experience a model
Judge, quick ready and rarely wrong
in his decisions. His record speaks
for itself and counts with people who
admire strong, fearless and impartial
judiciary. His opponent is not his
peer in hardly any respect. He may
be a good lawyer, but he has an eX-
ceedng poor way of showing it and his
record as prosecuting attorney is not
very brilliant.
John Sam Owsley. Jr., has no oppo-
sition for Commonwealth attorney,
because the republicans know that
they could not beat him even if they
had fit material for the Office. He has
made a reputation as prosecutor rare
ly attained by one of his age and is
constantly increasing it.
George 7. Farris, of Garrard, who is
the nominee for State Senator, is an
excellent man and would shine in the
councils at Frankfort, where his oppO-
nent drags along in monotonous medi-
Ocrity. Personally he is a strong man,
with the courage and ability to carry
his point and he would make a fitting
and other democrats who have honored
the position. He is a democrat and
partisan, but he will never be accused
of such discreditable remark as his
opponent is proved to have made.
b Between James =. Bailey and the
Facilitating character and political
turncoat that the republicans, after !
vainly trying to get other men to ac-
cept the nomination. finally nominated ,
for county Judge, the contrast is so
marked that recital of it would be
the work OF supereogation. Mr.. Bailey
is all that the other man isn't. He is
capable, true to conviction, firm in his
stand for the right and will never bar
ter his oath To protect the intetests of
the county for any place in the gift of
any party. He will administer the af-
fairs of the county ia clean and hon
est manner and add further to the rep {
utation he has made as sheriff and cir
cult clerk as a careful, painstaking and :
capable official.
In the person of Hon. Harvey Helm |
the democrats have presented most '
worthy and competent young lawyer
for county attorney, who fully fills the
Jeffersonian test for office-holders. He t
is bright, brainy and ambitious and 3
will bring to the discharge of his duty '
4 fund of experience and common sense a
hat will enable him TO do so credita- a
bly, TO himself and his constituents. g
His opponent is a very clever man, but a
even his best friends do not accuse him S
If the possession of those qualities nee +
,ssary to make successful county at v
orney. a
George b. Cooper, our nominee for q
county clerk, has shown his ability to :
Ill the office in a model manner. Its o.
luties seemed To come natural TO him n
md he performed them correctly and ?
aithfully. No man on the ticket is I,
more deserving than be and none needs n
he emoluments of the office more. TO =,
nable him to support a large and T
rowing family. His heart is almost as II
ig as his body and he will go out of q,
is way to accommodate either friend
r political foe. Against his opponent
re have nothing especially to say, ex- e
ept that he trains with mighty bad n
rOwd and should suffer the fate of m
COR dog Tray, which now appears GER n
lin To await him. n
1t ought not and doubtless will not n
Ike very long for those acquaint- Ii
with the merits OF the two men d,
decide in favor of James f. &c
oldam for circuit clerk over his OBJ O.
,nent, who is in politics for the pur- W.
,se of revenue only, running at one n
ection as q democrat and at the next
a republican. The qualifications OF
e two men are as marked in difference sc