The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-12-04
GREAT DISGRACE
For Madison County. Prospect
i've Jurors in Great De-
bduCh at Beatty lie.


sinful nature of men when tempta-
ton is before them These facts
are strong argument in favor of
local option. The article reads:
The most disgraceful episode III
the annals Of Madison county oc-
Cured when about fifty of her
citizens Q OF beastly drunk a t
. Beattyville. These men were "a
part of the special venire of $50
citizens of this city and county,
summoned to try the case of the
French Marcum murder trial The
conduct of these forty or fifty or
4 ysixty men. whatever the number.
beggars description. They pro-
ceeded on their arrival az Beatty
Vile to patroniZe the only saloon
in that town or in that whole sec
ton of Eastern Kentucky. and
within a few hours these men were
converted into a bowling mob.
driving everything before them
as one man expressed it-terryfy
ing the mountaineers themselves,
who had been accustomed to GER
tain degrees Of drunken disorder,
but never before in all their lives
had witnessed such an uproar and
debauch. Every boarding house
in the city was turned into a cage
of human wild cats. Doors were
f, forced open, furniture smashed,
7 and yomit despatched not only
upon the beds and carpets, but
upon the dining table Of one
boarding house. The little bar
room was taken possession of bod
lily by these people and live bar
tenders were kept busy dlshlng
out the fluid intoXicants unul the
early morning hours and men lay
like hogs in the filth upon the
floor in the bar room and ON the
streets of the city. Three of
them received severe injuries by
falls while intoxicated. One man
had his nose split open. another
had his knee dislocated, and still
another fell forty feet from a
bridge, narrowly escaping death,
receiving several broken bones.
The court house presented a
spectacle which has no parallel In
court annals of this country SO far
as we know. owing TO the fact that
when the names of these men
were called for examination for
Jury service, they were often
asleep or in such a drunken stu
por MS to he wholly unfit for con-
sideratlOn.
To Special Judge Dorsey is due
the thanks of these men for not
peremptorily furnishing them.
The Peace Officers Of Beattyville
treated their distinguished guests
with such indulgent consideration
as to place them under lifelong
obligation to them also. Those
citizens who managed to stay So
her in the midst Of this Bacchana-
liam debauch. declare that the dis
graceful scenes enacted could not
he Overdrawn or exaggerated.
Men who had not tasted liquor for
months, because of local option
enforcement here, yielded to the
temptation of their convlvial sur
roundings and fell by the way side
with the rest of the past grand
masters in drunkenness. 1t seem
ed to be a deliberate effort to drink
Beattyville dry and put the saloon
out of business before the local
option law takes effect on Decem-
Der /, which will put stop to the
existence of this last breathing
hole of hell'' in Eastern Kentucky.
The Climax refrains from going
into further particulars, which it
can and will do if necessary. Those
who are morally and legally re-
sponsible for all of this disorder,
should make their peace with their
neighbors and friends here at home
and had as well extend the Climax
4honlyc for Ire ndulUpncp alOnU