The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1907-10-16
THE TOBACCO TRUST
Has Mr.Willson Employed
AS Its Attorney.
CANDIDATE IS TAKEN TO TASK
Startling Disclosure Regard.
ing the Republican Candi-
date for Governor.


county Democrats had a big rally. to-
day at Bailey's mill, in the western
part of the county. The meeting was
an all-day affair, with a burgoo and
several speeches. The FrankfortMil-
itary Band furnished the music and
the principal speakers were Secreta-
ry of State Harry v. McChesney and
Appellate Court Clerk j. MorganChinn.
Short speeches were made by num-
z Der of local Democratic leaders.
Mr.. Chinn aroused the farmers by
charging that Augustus E. Wilson,
the Republican gubernatorial nominee,
is the legal representative of theAmer-
lean Tobacco Company, the tobacco
trust in Kentucky, having represent
led that corporation in it's litigation
before the Court of Appeals. In ar
raigning Wilson for his connection
with the trust Mr.. Chinn in part
spoke as follows:
ATTORNEY OF TOBACCO TRUST.
$ 1t will be good news, no doubt, to
the tobacco raisers in Kentucky, who
are at this particular time engaged
in a death struggle with the Ameri-
can Tobacco Company, commonly
known as the Tobacco Trust, to
know that that distinguished states
man, Mr.. Augustus E. Wilson, whom
the Republicans, l think in a fit of
mental alteration, have seen fit to
nominate as their candidate for that
exalted and honorblae position of Gov
ernor of Kentucky, is at this very
instant, and has been 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.
There was filed in that office on
DeCSHlDSI VI, loVO, IuS IIdnSCllpI vi
the record in the case of the Cincin- |
natl, Pittsburg, Chicago and St.Louis
Railroad Company against the Amer
lean Tobacco Company, which was
an anpeal from the Jefferson Circuit |
Court, involving the sum of $l,125.90
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 Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago
and ST. Louis Railroad Company, and
while the car was in the yards Of the
railroad company in the city of Louis
vile, the tobacco, the property of the
American Tobacco Company, was de-
stroyed in some way by fire.
HISTORY OF SUIT.
The American Tobacco Company,
through their attorney, Augustus e.
Wilson, instituted suit in the Jeffer-
son Circuit Court, Common Pleas, Sec
ond division, and filed his petition
for the said tobacco company on the
18th day of April, 1905, and in June,
1906. he was awarded a judgment
against the railroad company for the
amount claimed, $1,125.90, from which
Judgment there was prosecuted by
the railroad company an appeal
from the jefferson Circuit Court
to the Court of Appeals, where Mr..
Wilson again appears of record as
attorney for the American Tobacco
Company, and filed his brief for that
company (tho appellee), on April 30,
1907. The judgment of the lower
court was affirmed by the Court of
Appeals on October 10, 1907.
We do not mean to deny Mr.. Will
4. SON the right to represent the Tobac-
co Trust as an attorney, as that is his
privilege, but 1t is also the privilege
of the people of Kentucky, who are
, of the opinion that he would not max
a good. fair and impartial Governor
+, on account of his employment by the
Tobacco Trust, to vote against him
at the ensuing election, and If 4,
know anything about the temperament
of this people, you will most assur- ]
edly repudiate this man who is tied'i
to the body of living death, and
willing to scrape the clothes from the
backs of your children BY unfolding
the hands of this trust that is now!
in criminal combination in restraint