The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-03-26

of two weeks ago was made-that the
figures given in the Bourbon News was
correct" To this statement Judge
Burroughs has taken exception, and in
answering it | will state ali of the
facts in regard to my visit to him. In
the first place let me say that the IN
vestigation OF the records was made at
his suggestion and under the follow
ing circumstances Judge Burroughs
and anotl er gentleman from Carlisle
were in Paris, and were told that Car
Isle was being cited as an example Of
now the morals and business interests
of community were benefited by local
option, and that some one from Paris !
who advocated license should go to
Carlisle to get their side of the ques-
ton, and he replied, When. they come
down have them investigate the records
of my office, and they viii get some in
formation that will do them some
good. :" Acting upon his advice, | eX-
amined the records Of his Office. in
company with MIN, and with the result
already published. AS he said in his
letter, | told him that / wanted all
cases which grew out of the liquor
traffic, and as he called the cases off /
made a mark for each case, and when
we had finished, we counted the cases (
together and found that there were
thirty-fve cases in 1904, and sixty six
in 1906. We said nothing about the
years 1903 and 1905, and as did not
examine the docket, have nothing
now to say about them. This article
appeared in the Bourbon News on
March 1st, and it seems to me passing
strange that Judge Burroughs would
wait SO long to. deny these statements.
especially since ne expresses himself
so strongly in favor of local option in
his recent letter.
Judge Burroughs, at the time | made
this investigation did not believe that
local option was for the best interest
of Carlisle, either morally or from a
business standpoint, and said to me,
while there, THAT at one time drunk
enness became so prevalent that he
was forced to do something for the
local option people F" And he accord
ingiy held la Court of Inquiry. and after
examining about fifteen, witnesses, he
had to dismiss the defendants, because
all of the witnesses swore falsely
when questioned as to where they had
procured their whisky, but at the same
time he said he we'll knew that they
were guilty. And these cases are the
cases mentioned in the Bourbon News
of March the lst. He further said
that in all of his experience he did not
know of anything which caused more
perjury or false swearing than the
liquorstraffic in local option town If
my figures were not correct why did
not the letter, which was supposed to
have been signed by one hundred and
twenty of the citizens of Carlisle, tell
what the docket for 1904 and 1906
would show, and why did they attempt
to contradict my statement with refer
ence to these years, by publishing what
these two years, combined with the
years 1903 and 1905 would show?
The truth Of the matter is that the
lash OF civic pride" has been welded,
and is now held2 suspended over the
backs of many Of the citizens of Car
Isle, and they have been forced to sign
statements, or vouch for statements,
whi9nsthey do not believe. Fortunate
ly Bor the advocates of license in this
city, Judge Burroughs did not realize
when he vas talking in Paris, and
again, when he so willingly gave me
these facts, what the consequences, to
him, would be; and here let me add,
that if Ibid not know that these fig
ures were absolutely correct, as we'll
as the other statements contained in
the Bourbon News on March 1st.,
would say that they were false, be
cause Judge Burroughs, the man who
gave me the figures, was over Jealous
in convincing me that local option had
been bad thing for Carlisle, and
would be bad thing for Paris.
Very Respectfully,
JOHN J. WILLIAMS.