The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-09-30

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for this Office. but was given his pres
lent position at Eddyville BY the adj
ministration at salary of 500
monthly in order to hold him of the
track and substitute Mr. Graves,
whom. Prof McBroom stated, the ad-
ministration could use to better adj
Vantage.
| THE unauthenticity of this state
ment to all who are acquainted with
1.-THE facts is at once apparent. Ii is
due Mr.. Smith as well as Mr.. Graves,
to state, however, that the former at
no time entertained the least idea
lof becoming candidate for the legis-
llature and was given the position he
now holds solely on his merits. How
his salary of $1,000 per year is cost
, ing either the state or county any
additional sum because Mr.. Smith did
not become a candidate for the legis-
lature one is unable to understand
as the salary would go to some one
under any condition of circumstances
and why not to McCracken county
man?
prof. McBroom should do better
than this If he hopes to gain the con-
idence of the people and figure at
lall in the present race for representa-
Tive"
The statement of Prof. McBroom
lis absolutely true. The statement of
the News-Democrat is Absolutely un-
true in intent and purport. The
facts in connection with the appoint
ment of John ID. Smith to the position
he holds at Eddyville are: When
Louis Head resigned the clerkship at
the Eddyville penitentiary, McCrack-
en- county politicians naturally
thought his successor should some
from this county. Promises had been
made otherwise at Frankfort: but
the administration desired Eugene
Graves for the legislature. Then The
Sun was informed that John ID. Smith
was a candidate for the Democratic
nopination for the legislature. With
in a week representatives of the state
administration arrived in Paducah
and 1t was announced that John d.
Smith had been appointed to the po-
sition indifferently called might
clerk" and assistant clerk" of the
branch penitentiary at Eddyville
Louis Head and all his predecessors
attended to all the duties without an
assistant for $1,000 a year. Heads
successor receives 81, POO, and if
John d. Smith receives $1,000 year,
then that is just what the nomination
of Eugene Graves costs the taxpayers
of the state.
With the appointment OF Mr.. Smith
to the penitentiary position, opposi-
ton to the nomination of Eugene
Graves on the part of the leading
politicians ceased. The News-Dem-
ocrat says: ut is due Mr.. Smith as
well as Mr.. Graves to state. however
that the former at no time entertain
ed the least idea of becoming a can
didate for the legislature" We are
inclined to agree in a great measure
with the News-Democrat. But we do
know that the friends of Mr.. Smith
gave the information to The Sun that
he would be candidate before the
convention, and the declaration must
have been received in all seriousness
at Frankfort, judging by the result
of its publication.
How his salary of $1,000 a year
is costing the state or county any ad-
ditional sum. one is unable to under
stand" continues the News-DemO-
crat, 'as the salary would go to some
one under any conditions and cir
cumstances.
That is pure fabrication, and evades
the fact, which ought to be known
in the News-Democrat office, that the
office was created for NJ. Smith. and
no such position or salary existed
prior to the announcement that he
would be a candidate for the legis-
lature.
We concur with the News Democrat
in its expression, "Why not a Nc
Cracker county man." The place
vacated by Mr.. Head did belong to a
McCracken county man, but no Nc
Cracker county man got it, Mr..
Smith should have had that place
but he didn't get it, and the fact re-
mains, glazing, incontrovertible, that
he did not get any position until his
friends announced in The Sun that
he would be a candidate for the leg
islative nomination. and then the
position of might" or assistant
clerk" at the Eddyville branch peni-
Tertiary was CREATED for his sole
benefit, a position that had never be-
fore been considered necessary, and
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