The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1899-03-28
THE DISPATCH.

Il Vii lliS illOIlltiS VI tlliCg .-Otiit VI
! February, 1900, left my home
in Mt. Sterling to go to Owings-
vile, Bath county, Ky for the
purpose Of holding a term of the
| Circuit Court there. and on my
way to the depot met Mr.. Henry
| Watson, and he asked me if /
held any stock in the Louisville
Dispatch and / told him that Il
owned one half share, and he said
he would like to have control of
lit. ] then said to him that |
would give it TO him; that the
stock was worthless, that | regard
ed it Of no value, He then re-
marked that Mr.. Enloe and other
stockholders of the paper would in
a few days institute suit 10 place |
the paper in the hands Of a receiv- |
er, and after the suit was brought |
that he would like to have the con-
troll of my stock to file it in with
the other stockholders, and asked
me to sign a printed power of AT,
torney, that he then had giving
him control of my stock and |
signed it and then went on to Ow-
ingsviIle and convened court on
that day for the term, and on
Wednesday OF that week las l
now remember) Hon. VIM. Goe-
bel came to Owingsville and at
noon Of that day | met him at the
hotel where l was stopping. He
said he would like to have a talk
with me and l told him that / had
a jury impaneled in a small case
and would get some member Of
the bar to try it, and the parties
agre ed upon Mr. Allie w. I
Young to try the case. ..
Senator Goebel, Hon. H. r.
Prewitt, of Mt. Sterling; Hon. w. t
A. Young, present Common E
wealth's Attorney, and myself Il
went to my room at the hotel, and v
Jude Reid Patterson e
came in my room, and some s.
Of them were present during my Z
entire conversation with Senator a
and never was the Lou
sville Dispatch mentioned. n
Senator Goebel never directly n
Tor indirectly, in person by letter II
or otherwise before the institution t
If the suit of J. w. Hedden and st
others against the Dispatch Pub e;
ishing Company, said word to p
ne about the institution of such a tc
uit.
l continued to hold court until &c
saturday evening, came home on. re
sunday and was greatly surprised Va
N that evening to read in the Dis tn
latch of that day that there had oy
'een a suit instituted by J, w. tn
1edden, w. T. Fitzpatrick, VIM. W
,ledd, J. O. Greene and myself az
gainst the Dispatch Publishing 81
company, and l was more surpris- tn
d, ifpossible, at the language of Su
he editorial in the Dispatch de- Sc
ouncing us as wreckers and as
assins Of the Peoples paper. m,
Without knowing anything about phi
he facts, the editor used every Co
lean epithet against US, dare wi
~ that his fertile brain contained. dc
having been called an assassin or or
AN accusation that was not con- T..
stent with my sense Of honor-I "a,
to go to the city of Lou So
vile and learn the facts in the tur
sSe as correctly as l could, and to'
pom my arrival there l was relia- VI, VIC
ly informed that every allega- IN IN
on in the petition was true and al
ould be proven to be true. fro
Democrats can look even to the ella
Iidence that has already been ins
kent speaks for itself.
All the plaintiffs to this suit are
ue Democrats and will vote for or
Ie entire Democratic ticket that adj
ay be nominated at the coming
ate convention. Time will de-
,lop who are the wreckers and X
sassins of the Peoples paper,
ID the plaintiffs in that suit will
1t be in the list Of the real wreck
S and assassins.
The foregoing statement en-
aces the facts written with mod
alton that the public may know
e truth.
J. E. COOPER.