Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-07-07

mary, They accuse the committee
of-stealiug enough votes from Cool
to elect Judge Bush, when the trutl
is, that they only kept tile Cool
heelers from stealing the uomina,
ton from Judge Bush. The Led
ger say they heard that they KEEP
the polls open 10 Trigg county un.
til after a o'clock Yes they heard
/ it in tones as loud as the thunder Of
Sinai; we wish all of our people
could have read the affidavits filed
and heard the sworn statements of
those before the committee, it would
make the blood run cold in their
veins to know how mean some peo-
pie are that live in this Judicial
district. They not only willfully
ard maliciously kept the polls
open until after 5 o'clock in some
precincts and that, too, over the
protest of as good citizens as live in
that county but they allowed men to
climb in at the window and vote
after they did close and not only
that but allowed officers of the cleo.
ton, who failed to make a certif-
cate to get together the next week
and formulate one from memory.
Every body who has sense enough
to vote knows that it was not fair
nor lawful for the polls to be closed
at 4 o'clock in precincts where
nearly all were voting for Judge
Bush and let them stay open until
5 o'clock where most of them were
voting for Cook, and still in the face
of these frauds the Cook leaders
hold up holy hands and say the
spirit of the law is a free ballot and
fair count. How can they quote
this sentence in the face of such COR
ruption, where the spirit and the
letter of the law is outraged by
thus overriding the law and defeat
ing the will of the people as legally
expressed? If you had a right to
keep the polls open until after o.
clock did you not have a right to
keep them open till 6; if 6 why not
I, and so on. Did't we tell you
about the precincts throw out 10
few years ago for
less irregularities, and Judge Cook
the act and had the cleo
ton officers indicted and yet you
talk about fair election and fair
count, to be sure that is all Judge
Bush and his friends want and
that is what Thompson and his
satellites of the"boss" do not want.
We turn your own sentence on you
and say, Thou shalt not steal by
overriding the law and allowing
votes to be cast contrary TO the law
and so declared by the court of APP
peals.
Bear in mind that these viola
tions in Trigg county were not over
sights, for they were warned by as
good citizens as live in that county,
and the only thing thatkeptCalloway
from the same corruption was the
timely appointment of challengers.
If no fraud was in tended why did
it happen that the requisite numb.
err of ballots were not sent to Fair,
Swami and other strong Bush
precincts and more than the requi-
site number sent to Almo, where
the heelers thought they had a pull?
But they say that the Committee
did not notify Cook and give him a
chance to be heard, well we guess
not when Cook even refused to take
a note from Judge Bush or any of
his friends, and If Cook wanted to
do the fair thing why did he go
back on his proposition to Judge
Bush, and that was to throw out all
illegal and republican votes and
abide by the result? Judge Bush
gladly agreed, for he only wanted
to be treated fairly. Cook heelers
knew>tha fair vote and a fair
count would defeat him and they
would not let>him do it, so Cook
went back on hIs>own proposition.
That seems to US would or ought to
have satisfied everybody, but they
thought that they could bluff Judge
Bush off, hut he was not the man to
sit down and let gang of thieves
steal a nomination from him when
he knew he had fairly won.-Mur-
ray Times.