The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1903-10-28
Charges Federal Office
holders with Procuring
Nomination of Edwards.
Says Craft, Sharp and TinsleD Made
Selection Before BoreinG
was Buried.

procured the nomination OF ID. [
Edwards by the boiling delegates
He alleges that three Federal office
holders, two of them residing In
other districts, adopted extreme
methods to secure the selection oil
Mr.. Edwards. The allegations are
supported by other supporters OF
DR.. W. Godfrey Hunter, VINO al
lege that Collector Joseph A. Craft
of the Fifth district, Steve u.
Sharp, of the Seventh district,
Marshal of the Eastern district,
and District Attorney, J. ii. lin
slew. of the Eastern district OF Ken
lucky, United States Court, are
the Federal office-holders who Of
Tended.
The charge is made that Messrs
Craft, Tinsley and Sharp met In
London on the night before the
burial of the late Vincent j. Bore
ing and arranged to have Edwards
succeed him. Mr.. Parker claims
that outrageous methods were en-
ployed to secure instructions for
Edwards. He says DIR. Hunter is
the choice of the great majority of
the voters.
~ am giving the"facts to the
people," said Mr.. Parker. "because
we Republicans have made so many
charges rgainst the Democrats and
this has by far eclipsed anything
our opponents have ever attempted.
81 was in the tar Northwest
when the vacancy occurred" said
he, "and did not arrive in Ken
lucky until some weeks afterward.
1 found on my arrival at home that
three Federal office-holders, two of
whom lived outside of the Eleventh
district, had held little meeting
at the Riley Hotel in London, KY,
before Judge Boreing was buried
and had selected D. C. Edward to
make the race for Congress. This
little coterie of office-holders who
selected Edwards to make this
race set about at once to boom
their man with the hope that if he
was. elected he would be their tool
and continue them IL office, and
then commenced at once an extrav-
agant use of money and whiskey
to secure his nomination. So l
went to work for Mr.. Ramsey, one
of the ablest and most deserving
men in Kentucky for this nominG
ton. l attended the Middlesboro
convention to assist Mr.. Ramsey in
any way l could that was honest.
On the assembling Of the conven-
ton at Middlesboro, October IT,
it was perfectly clear that notwith-
standing the revolutionary and UNI
fair methods resorted to on Octo-
Der Is, the opposition to j. Sher-
man Cooper, his clique and plans
had a decided majority and the
Edwards men became desperate.
At Somerset on October Is at the
county convention of Pulaski coun-
ty it was clearly shown that DR.,
Hunter had 1, 400 votes in the con-
vention and Edwards had $50.
Notwithstanding this, Cooper, the
chairman of the district, gave GER
tifcates to the Edwards delegation.
In Jackson county it was clearly
shown that Ramsey had 1914 votes
in the convention and Edwards had
172 votes, and Notwithstanding
this fact the chairman OF the con-
vention, who is the plant tool of
j. Sherman Cooper, gave certifi-
Gates to Edwards delegation. In
Knox county DR.. Hunter had 500
votes and Edwards had 100 votes
The chairman, Mr.. Byerly, gave
the certificates to Hunters dele
gates. Notwithstanding all these
frauds and wrongs, the opposition
had majority against Edwards.
The delegates assembled had alb
solutely no authority to adjourn to
another time and place until a per-
manent organization had been eff
fected, and their effort to adjourn
the convention, participated in by
more than a hundred delegates