The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1907-10-18
Don't REPRESENT
TOBACCO TRUST.
Filled one Suit. Against Rail
~ road Co. Years Ago.
All Conductors Say That Demo-
crat Candidates Ride on Pas
Ses While Wilson Pays Fare.

A few days ago j. Morgan Chinn,
Clerk of the Court of Appeals was the
chief speaker at a Democratic rally
out in Bailey Mills precinct, where
it will be remembered, p. Pear, r.
Road, b. Oak and 1O1 other prominent
citizens of like inanimacy voted for
Beckham and the entire Democrat
ticket in 1903, particulars of which ap
reared III these columns some weeks
ago. In the course of his speech
Mr.. Chinn made the sensational state
ment that the Hon. Augustus E. Will
son, Republican candidate for Gov
ernor, is the attorney for the Amer
lean Tobacco Company. Whereupon
in his next utterance A. o. Stanley
a wind jammer who is kept busy ex-
planning his previous speech, and of
whom all western Kentucky people
have heard, with how much credit we
will not say, reiterated and enlarged
on the Chinn statement.
Mr.. Wilson replies to these and
other charges of Stanley in his
speech at Bowling Green Tuesday in
the following plain matter of fact
manner: Mr.. Chinn he said went TO
Bailey Mills precinct to tell the voters
that he (Ir. Willson) was the attor-
ney for the tobacco trust"
hn
asked. 81 will tell you why. He went
there because Mr.. Ash, Mr.. Fence, Mr.
Pine, Mr.. Moxnixous and the other
voters there couldn't come to him.
They were busy in the field and the
woods"
. Congressman Stanley, too, he said,
had made the discovery that he was
the attorney for the American Tobacco
Company in a small case which re-
Gently had been decided in the Court
of Appeals. He then explained his
connection with the case. He said
that car load of tobacco, the prop
erty of the company, was destroyed
by fire on the tracks of a railroad
in Louisville in 1904, and the compa-
ny brought suit for the tobacco. Chas.
H. Gibson, who was the legal repre-
sentative of the American Tobacco
Co., was formerly attorney for the
railroad company, Mr.. Wilson said,
and in this case preferred to repre-
sent his old client. 1t was then that
Mr.. Wilson was asked to represent
the plaintiff, just as any other lawyer
is employed to represent any company
or person.
The case, he said, involved but a
small amount, and was decided in
favor of the tobacco company.
Mr.. Stanley has said that my re-
marks about him at Hopkinsville were
instigated by the tobacco trust. That
is false. 1t was simply an outburst
of righteous indignation at the man
ner in which he coupled my name
with a colored woman in one of his
speeches, when he said that if was
elected Governor I might be seen dan
cling two-step in the executive man
sion with a colored woman, climax
to a long-winded talk about negro
domination, by which he sought to
appeal to race prejudice.
Continuing Mr.. Wilson said: Mr.
Chinn evidently went to the woods to
practice, because he had read how
Demosthenes, of Athens, did the same,
and because the trees, A. Apple, B.
Beech, P. Plum, Mr.. Oak, A. Ash, S.
Sickamore and S. Sedar, who helped
to perform the Beckham-Hager & Co.
political machine, on account OF their
deep-rooted prejudices, could not leave
Bailey's Mill to listen to him any
where else.
Like Demosthenes; Mr.. Chinn car
ried pebble in his mouth, and that
pebble was the fact that as Clerk of
the Court of Appeals he had noticed
that l was the attorney for the Amer
lean Tobacco Company in case in
that court involving little over
$1,000.
"This statement differs seriously
< from most of the things that the ring
speakers are saying about me, and
that is that It is true.> l was attorney
I'm that case,and the only question left
is whether that fact is against my do
ing my duty as Governor of Ken
lucky.
IF the case was an important case,
or If the getting pay for my work as
a lawyer were likely to make me favor
any private or corporate interests
aoainst the peotle of Kentucky, then