The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-09-02

louisville, Mayor Bingham and the
other officers, who were appointed by
Governor Beckham and now appar-
emily have been deserted, make the
following statement:
The Statement.
Louisville. Ky, Aug. 80, 1907.
To the Public:
We accepted the Office to which We
were respectively appointed by Gov
lernor Beckham with full apprecia-
tion of the high honor conferred on
us, but also with the full apprecia-
ltion OF the stern duties which were
thus imposed We felt that we were
agreeing TO perform a high duty, not
only to the Democratic party. but also
to the people of this city and county
"a duty which could not be avoided
Tor belittled, a duty which must be
faithfully carried out no matter what
THE consequences might be to us or
10 others. We took an oath to do that,
and we have tried 10 keep that pledge
without fear. without Partially and
Without III will TO any man. We have
lmisrepresented nobody; but We have
concealed nothing which the taxpay-
ltrs had a right to know. They have
a right to know how their affairs have
been and are being administered. We
lare Democrats and always have been.
We believe he serves his party best
who serves the people best
Were willing to Run IL Assured Fair
Play.
When we accepted this trust from
la Democratic governor. we expected
to be candidates before the Demo
cratic party for its approval and nom
Iination. II We had not so intended.
we would not have accepted the trust.
we have been willing, ever since our
appointment, to submit. ourselves to
a Democratic primary, provided We
were reasonably well assured that We
should have fair play at the hands of
1.-THE Democratic committees of this
city and county. When we perceived
from the proceedings of the public
meeting called by this committee, at
the Seelbach in July. that majority
| OF the committee sympathized with
and seemed to give encouragement
Ito the men who had lost office or
employment for one reason or an
other but through no personal ill-will
on our part, and, who, from envy or
spite. were determined in advance to
Imisrepresent and injure us, even
though the Democratic party should
be thereby weakened in its coming
struggle, We felt that we could not
get fair play before the committee.
Nevertheless, we sought to bring
about an agreement, which, while
protecting us from injustice, would
give assurance of fair play to every
body. That was all we desired. We
were willing to submit our claims to
Jour Democratic fellow-citizens in a
clean. fair race. but were not willing
to put ourselves in the unrestrained
lDower of our declared enemies, who,
as everybody knows, had long been
charged by many Democrats with ac-
tive partisanship and gross injustice
in the primary conducted by them in
| 900 and in 1905. and whose actions
lin the election of 1905 were con-
ldemned by the court of appeals, all
of the judges but one being Demo
lcrats.
Promise to Insure Fair Play Not Car
ried Out.
In July the local committee,
Through Mr.. II. II. Hines, chairman
lof the state executive committee. Of
lfered to grant our request for proper
Safeguards in the coming primary
and he, in their name, proposed to
incorporate twelve articles as part of
the rules for the primary. These ar
lticles we're then and there reduced to
WRITING in the presence of Governor
Beckham. Mr.. Hines, Judge Lincoln
land Mr.. Bingham, and we still have
them as then written. They seemed
flair to US, and seemed likely to Sc
Icure fairness to every candidate We
accepted them in good faith and were
assured by Mr.. Hines that he had Of
fered them by the authority of the
local committee. and that they would
be embodied in the rules. When the
rules were published by the commit
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