The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-01
HOT IN OLD KENTUCKY
GOV. BECKHAM AND JUDGE BAR
KER, OF LOUISVILLE. IN A
MERRY WAR
ALL ABOUT A GAMBLING CASE
HIS EXCELLENCY HINTS AT COR
RUPTION ON PART OF PROS
ECUTION
HIS HONOR WAKES WRATHY
Charges the Governor With Lack of
Gratitude for the Courts stand
During the Late EIec-
tion Contest.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb. %. = Strong
statements made by Gov. Beckham in in
dorsing the pardon he granted today to
Ed Alvey convicted in the criminal
court at Louisville of setting up a game
of chance and given two years in the
penitentiary, had an extremely senSa-
tional aftermath in the criminal court
today. Gov Beckham was denounced to
the court by r. G. Kinkead who was one
of the attorneys that prosecuted Alvey,
and the executive was the subject of a
long address to the grand jury by the
judge of the court. Alvey was convicted
on states evidence turned by three men
who were indicted with him, and par
doned by the governor on affldavits which
the governor thought established that
Alvey was a subject of discrimination.
In brief, Gov. Beckham charged that AL
vey was convicted to suppress competi-
tion in gambling in Louisville. liz his Of
ficial Endorsement on the pardon, grant
ed Alvey, Gov. Beckham says:
ROASTED BY BECKHAM
'This is the most barefaced and In
excusable case Of judicial and political
persecution that has ever come before
my notice. By a bold and shameful con-
spiracy, this man Alvey has been Sc
lected as the helpless victim, while 9TH
ers equally as guilty, or more so, who
seem to bask in the sunshine Of official
favor, are allowed absolute immunity
from prosecution in the Jefferson Grim
inal court.
''This warfare seems to have been In
spired not by an intention to suppress
gambling, but by desire to destroy
competition in that business. The pa
pers before me show beyond doubt that
this man was convicted upon evidence
secured by one of the most infamous
bargains ever tolerated in any court
R. C. Kinkead, who was counsel pros
IN0fA
ences to an employed prosecutor in
Gov. Beckham's pardon Endorsement re-
flected on him, and today in the criminal
court, on motion of Mr.. Kinkead. Judge
Barker appointed committee of five
lawyers to investigate statements con-
cerning the attorney made in the gov
ernors Endorsement.
Judge Barker ordered the entry of the
following order:
Comes r. C. Kinkead, a member of
this bar, and moves the court for the
than five members of the bar of Louis
ville, whose duty it shall be to fully in
vestigate the inSinuation of professional
misconduct on the part of the. said Kin
kead IN the reasons assigned by the gov
ernor of Kentucky, in granting the par
dons of Ed Alvey, convicted here on Feb.
25''
Judge Barker then called before him
the grand jury and explained his atti-
tude in the gambling cases. He said in
part:
COURT COMES BACK.
Insofar as it is intimated that this
court has Disseminated between one set
of gamblers and another, l desire to
state to you, upon the honor of q man,
that that is untrue.
THAT whole pot pourri of information
that is filed is made of the statements
of men who were either convicted, OF
who turned states evidence for fear of
conviction. 1t was amazing to me be-
cause I could not but remember that
when only a little over a year ago the
present governor of Kentucky and his
branch Of the legislature fled in terror
from Frankfort to the city of Louisville
when they were threatened with arrest
by the military commanded by the then
Gov Taylor 1t was to this court that
they came for protection, and it was
this governor and in his favor that |
invoked all the power with which the
commonwealth had invested me.
Il have it from him and the members
of the legislature that but for the ac-
tions of this court his Legislature would
have fed in terror and never have been
assembled again. Right in this court
he came for protection. l do not say
this in a boastful spirit, but merely
to show that if this court could have
been awed then by the governor with
all his militia at his back there would
have been no Gov. Beckham now to in
suit this court"