The bee., 1904-09-15
REPUBLICAN
Convention Held at jacksonville
Saturday-R. Fox Nominated
for County Judge.
HAD NO OPPOSITION WHATEVER.

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at the court house in the city of
Madisonville, Kentucky, at 1 80
O'Clock p. m. on Saturday, Sep
TENDER 10, 1904, for the purpose
of nominating a candidate for
County Judge to be voted for at
the regular November election.
The convention was called to
order by j. B. Harvey, chairman
of the Republican County Com
mittee, and the purposes of the
meeting stated.
L. A. league was nominated
and elected temporary chairman
and @. 81. Murphey was elected
secretary. On motion the tenn.
porary organization was made
permanent.
The chairman appointed DIR. T.
w. Gardiner, Ben 7. Robinson,
r. r. Graham, William Finley
and T. r. Cardwell committee
on resolutions, who after DELHI
Grafton submitted the following
report, which was read and
unanimously adopted:
The Republicans of Hopkins
county, in convention assembled,
adopted the following resolutions:
We approve the call of this con-
vention by the Republican county
committee:
We endorse the action of the Re-
publican National Convention in
nominating as its candidates for
President and Vice President such
worthy and patriotic Americans as
Theodore Roosevelt and Charles w.
Fairbanks:
With pleasure and satisfaction,
we point to the wise, courageous and
efficient management of our Nation
al affairs by the present administra-
ton, and are justly proud of it's
grand achievements and our Ma
tional greatness as a people-due to
the answering loyalty and devotion
of our leaders to true Republican
principles:
We congratulate ourselves and all
American citizens upon an era of
such general and substantial pros
peritv-bounteous harvests, plenty
of work at a fair wage, stable and
sound currency (firmly and irrevOca-
bly, established), an OVERLOOKING
Treasury and all international af-
fairs in O sound, healthy aud pros
porous condition-the pledges and
prophecies OF 1896 and 1900 fulfilled:
We deplore the condition of our
native state. It's affairs in the
hands Of corrupt and designing po-
liticians and officers who owe their
elevation to Office and power, alone,
to police intimidation, fraudulent
registrations and unfair elections;
who grow rich by systematic meth
DDS of graft and maintain themselves
In power by "ring" political meth
DDS:
We condemn as an outrage against
the rights and liberties of American
citizens and treemen, the action of
our county officials In arresting and
imprisonIng on flimsy charges and
shallow pretexts, the night before
the election, Republican voters, with
the purpose of preventing them from
casting their ballot:
/ We condemn the reckless squan-
dering of the county levy by the
Fiscal Court. The Democratic party
after fifty years of unbroken control
of county affairs, have by their un-
scrupulous and inefficient manage
ment and partisan methods, wasted
the peoples money, and the county
today Is $4S, 100000 In debt. Our tax
able property more than doubled in
value and the rate Of taxes about the
same: "N
We condemn the management of
our county's fiscal affairs generally
and denounce rs an outrage the
lavish and wanton appropriations
and handouts TO the grafters and
hangers-on' of the political "ring."
The person honored by his county
men with an office, should diligently
devote his time and talents to the
proper discharge Of the duties of
such office-be there ready, willing
and able to minister to and advise
the people he represents, and by
whom he is paid and pledged to
serve; give them an honest, fearless
and economical administration and
carry no ''side Ines for livelihood.