The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-08-02
What The Country Press Is Doing.

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publican nominee for Clerk of Court
of Appeals, and which announced at
the time of his selection that his name
could not go at its mast head together
with those of the other nominees be-
cause its editor. and many good people
of Pulaski county, did not deem him
worthy of support, continues its ex-
posures. The issues of the paper of
July 18th last denounces Adams as the
''tattooed mai" of Eleventh District
politics, a ''conscienceless political
Urickster," and says that the Republi-
can ticNet will lose thousands of old line
Republican votes if he is not taken
from among the nominees of the party.
In an editorial headed ''No Fair
Thing in Tattooed man," the paper has
the following:
''We think no true Republican can
afford to vote to put man into the
important Office of the Court OF APP
peals who is tattoed all over with I'M
fairness, lawlessness, fraud and cor
ruption.
1.-The Clerk of Court of Appeals is an
ex-officio member of the State Elec-
ton Board. He is one of the three
who counts the votes and certificates
of elections. What force has our plea
for free ballot and fair count or "a
square deal to every man while we
have a man on the ticket, if elected
would have to count the vote, and who
uses the same foul and unfair means
that were employed in the worst day
of Goebelism.
1--WE old-fashioned Republicans of
Pulaski, and other mountain counties,
do not propose to foist upon the people
of this State a man to count the
peoples votes who has made history
that proves that he does not think it
as great crime to steal an office and
votes as to fitch goods, wares, or mer-
chandise. For we can see no fair thing
in tattooed man.
"And we are expecting that the Re-
publican ticket will lose thousands of
old line Republicans if ne is not taken
from the ticket and in his place man
put in whom the people can con6de as
one who will give a fair count as
Election Commissioner, to every man.
"Hoary- Republicans by the
thousand will rebuke the effort to in
suit them by an attempt to cram can
didate down their throat who is a con-
scienceless political trickster who has
no sense of fairness even toward his
Republican brethren
The country newspapers of Ken
lucky, Democratic and Independent,
are rendering splendid service to the
Democratic party this early in the
campaign. Their editors are display
ing keen interest in public affairs of
the State, as well as of theirfimme-
date section, and show by their edi
tcrial utterances that they thoroughly
appreciate what the Democratic
party, through its officials in office for
the past seven years, has accomplished
for the good of the Commonwealth and
the betterment of its various institu-
tions.
The following from the Lyon County
Herald is fair sample of the general
expression regarding the splendid
ticket placed lii the field by the party
to be Voted for in the coming Novem-
Der election:
1.-The school per capita is more than
dollar greater now than under Re-
publican rule in Kentucky. The State
is out of debt, has nearly completed
new capitol with little cost to the tax
payers, and peace, prosperity and hap
piness prevails. Is there any excuse
for the independent voter TO seek fur
Their than the splendid ticket that
heads this column? There is but one
answer, and there is every assurance
that it will be elected by old-time
majority
In no section of Kentucky is the
Democratic country press doing better
work for the party than is the eastern
and mountain counties. The papers
of that section, whose editors are
Democrats, are not quite as numerous
as in the central and western portions
of the State, but they are as intense
and loyal, and not afraid to express
themselves, and are sending those ex-
pressions into every hamlet of the
mountains. Republican Gubernatorial
nominee Wilson has announced that
he will follow the campaign methods
of his real manager. William D. Brad
ley, and stump thesmountains on horse
back. Instead of finding, as:Bradl ~