The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-10-22
Republican Gubernatorial Noni=
nee is Attorney in Kentucky
For the Tobacco Trust.


In addition to his other corporation
connections, comes the information
that Augustus E. Wilson, stRenublican
Gubernatorial nominee, is the attorney
in the State of Kentucky for the Amer
lean Tobacco Company, the great trust
which has, through its policies in deal
/ ing with the farmers, compelled them
to organize for their protection against
/ it. Appellate Court Clerk, J Morgan
/ Chinn, custodian of records for the
/ highest court of the State, makes this
serious charge against Wilson, and is
enabled to prove it from the record in
1 his possession. In a speech just deliv-
cred, Clerk Chinn made his charge in
the following language, which it will
be we'll for every farmer and tobacco
raiser to read:
/ 1T will be good news, no doubt, to
the tobacco raisers in Kentucky, who
are at this particular time engaged in
death struggle with the American
/ Tobacco Company, commonly known as
the Tobacco trust, to know that that
distinguished statesman, Mr.. August
f. Wilson, whom the Republicans, |
think in fit of mental alteration have
seen fit to nominate as their candidate
for that exalted and honorablesposition
of Governor of Kentucky is at this
very instant, and has sbeen for years
the hired paid and employed attorney
for the American Tobacco Company as
evidenced by the records in the office
/ of the Clerk of the Court of Appeals.
| For there was filed in that office in
December 9Th, 1906, the transcript of
/ the record in the case of the Pittshurg,
Cincinnati, Chicago and st Louis Rail
road Company against the American
! Tobacco Company, which was an ap-
peal from the Jefferson Circuit Court
involving the sum of 81, 125 that the
American Tobacco Company recovered
/ from this railroad company in the
! lower court for the loss by fire of a
/ car of tobacco that they had consigned
/ to Chicago over the lines of the Pitts
burg, Cincinnati, Chicago and st.
Louis Railroad Company, and while
the car was in the yards of the rail
road company in the city of Louisville,
the Tobacco the property of the Amer
lean Tobacco Company was destroyed
in some way by fire. The American
Tobacco Company, through their attor-
ney Augustus E. Wilson, instituted
suit in the Jefferson Circuit Court,
Common Pleas Second Division, and
filed his petition for the said tobacco
company on the 18th day of April,
1905, and upon the 4th day of June,
1906, he was awarded judgment against
the railroad company for the amount
claimed. $1,125.90 from which judg-
ment there was prosecuted by the rail-
road company an appeal from the Jeff
erson Circuit Court to the Court of
Appeals. where Mr.. Wilson again ap-
pears of record as Attorney for the
American Tobacco Company, and filed
his brief for that company, the ap-
pellee, on April Both, 1907. The judg-
ment of the lower Court was affirmed
by the Court of Appeals on October
10th, 1907.
eve do not mean to deny Mr.. Will
son the right to represent the Tobacco
Trust as an attorney as that is his
privilege. but it is also the privilege
of the people of Kentucky who are of
the opinion that he would not make a