Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-08-21
STANDS BY GARY.
Judge Bush Condemns the Re.
mOvaI of His Friend.
Believes the Attack Was
Made to Further t1umil-
late Himself.

OO HluSu mas Oeen SAID Oy an I'M
friendly press about the State Gen.
trial Committees action IN reversing
the decision Of the primary election
in the judicial race in this district,
that the Kentuckian called upon
Mr.. Bush for an expression in re-
gard to his real attitude. It has
been circulated that he was en-
tirely satisfied with the verdict and
it was published in the Courier
Journal of Wednesday, in a dis
patch from Hopkinsville. that the
removal of Judge Bush's friend
from the charmanship of the county
committee was "ior party har-
mony" and that by the action taken
all differences had been ''happily
adjusted"
Judge Bush was indignant at this
misrepresentation and expressed
himself in the following vigorous
language:
81 was satisfied after l heard
from Trigg county that l had not
been given a fair deal in that coun-
ty. l made a proposition at Eddy.
vile to Judge Cook to let the COM
mittee recount the votes and agreed
to abide by the result. He agreed,
provided l would consent for Re-
publican votes to be eliminated.
Twas perfectly willing, because l
had nothing to lose by that, and
at once reduced the proposition to
writing, signed it and sent it to him
TO sign, Judge Cook rejected this,
his own proposition, after consulta-
ton with his Trigg county friends.
Then believed and my friends be-
lieved more than ever that ! had
been denied fair treatment in TrIgg
county and that an inspection Of
the ballots was not wanted. said
then and afterwards that l would
abide by what the State Central
Committee did. That committee
saw fit to recognize the Thompson
Boughter committee, which was
equivalent to approving Judge
Cook s certificate. ] acquiesced, as
I said ] would do, although l be-
lieved that an undue influence had
been brought to bear upon several
committeeman by machine politI-
clans, who perhaps, had axes of
their own to grind, and subordinat.
ed my interest to their own and dis
regarded and set at defiance the
party law as frequently construed
by the committee.
81 understand it has been stated
and industriously circulated by
those who opposed me most
actively and bitterly, that l had
said that was in the wrong in
contending for the nomination had
won and had permitted myself to be
over persuaded by Jealous and in
discreet friends. In Justice to my
feel called upon to pub
licly deny any such statement and
to say that l, in common with my
friends, believe that was doing no
more than asserting my rights in
claiming my nomination, and there
fore declined to submit until the
highest party authority decided
against me and then 1 did so be-
cause had agreed to. l have re
manned silent since, notwithstand-
ing all that has been said about me
in certain papers and about my
friends. only submit to this inter-
view because injustice has been
done some of my friends, by seeking
to hold them responsible for my
claiming the nomination"
"Aud further because of the fact
that after l have submitted and
pledged my support to the nominees,
including Judge Cook, that, in order
to further humiliate me and those
who supported me, a warfare is
by certain machine poll
tlcians who secretly obtained prox-
les from committeeman who had no
idea of the purpose for which they
were procured, and used them to
remove Mr.. Geo. e. Gary as chair-
man of the county committee for no
other reason than because he sup
ported me-
The statement in the Courier