The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-01-29

posed to his effort of quarantine as
being useless and uncalled for. Now,
upon the strength of what sail in
that letter to DR.. Taylor, it being
m erely reiterstion Of what had
said at all times that l always had
done so and would continue to enforce
the law, Boyd receded from his atti-
tude of quarantine and so advised the
state board. had said only what /
had always done and as he knew, prom
Used nothing more as he well knew.
After attempting to STIR up the city
and after doing incsloulable damage
with his clustering threats of quarsn.
tine, he beats a most ignominious re-
treat at the first opportunity. For the
life Of me, / could never understand
what he wanted of me as county
judge. he and Mccormack said it
would take 5000 to do what they
wanted TO do. have tried to find out
what that was, but no one has been
able so far to do SO. l have sent men
to find what he wanted from, and then
only thing he would say was that I
had no right to say that the little
eruption at Lone Oak was not small
pox. So naturally came to the con-
clusion that the county was to be quar-
antined because did not believe like
Boyd and his young friend McCor-
mack. Instead of Furnishing me for my
great crime, he undertook to visit ca
lamity upon Paducah.
/ have said before and say again,
that the whole affair bears the unmis-
tskeable earmarks of great bluff and
attempted show Of authority. No
stronger evidence could exist than that
after all the blow of Boyd about the
county judge not assisting him that
people were violating his quarantine
he has never attempted TO bring the
guilty parties to justice, though l have
repeatedly invited him TO come and
get warrants. As q further evidence
of the fact that the doctor knows there
is nothing in all he has said and that
the situation is not and was never
threatening, he has not been to Lone
Oak bat once since the famous visit
of himself and Mccormack. How
strange it must seem to the people. A
few days ago he and Mccormack were
going to pen us up in the whole coun-
ty on account OF the situation and here
he is not even going cut to guard
against the awful dangers he said ex-
listed.
BY the way, when Mccormack was
here in his interview, he said that the
wearing of whiskers around patients
with the smallpox was very danger
Gus thing to do and was strictly
against quaratine regulations. Now,I
want the law enforced, and the doctor
must part with his whiskers or l will
be compelled to warrant him and he
must also take the precaution to
change his clothing upon going In and
out where patients are confined.
Seriously, let me say that the whole
affair Is but smother example of the
extent to which arbitrary power can
be carried, and l am sure that the
great body of the people will agree
with me that it is the duty Of all good
citizens to cry out against methods
that deny home rule and that know no
as to powers that may be
used.
Every law-abiding citizen wants to
stamp out all dangerous diseases that
may menace the people, but let us ad-
yocate law that permits the selection
of officers at home and that will place
around them some restrictions as to
their powers.
Perhaps, the state board will chas-
tise me for writing this article, or it
may be that Boyd will threaten anoth-
er quarantine OF the county, because