The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-10-29
Come Again, Mr.. Wilson.

~AShS III q 0CAlOCIdIc IdlSS0OOO IN
his efforts to convince the people of
Kentucky that his employers are not
the Trusts having interests in 1.-THE
State of Kentucky. especially the To-
baco Trust. August E. Wilson, Repub-
lican Gubernatorial candidate, has fur
Their confessed and COMPOUNDED himself
by second explanation that does not
explain anything. How the Republi-
can party standard bearer is leaking
from one falsehood into another it is
best told by the Hon j. Morgan Chinn,
Clerk of the Kentucky Court of APP
peals. and the man who first discover
ed Mr.. Wilson's trust connections.
Read the following from Mr.. Chinn:
1.-The farther August E. Wilson goes
IN his efforts to explain to the people
of the::State. his connection as atfor-
ney for the Tobacco Trust, exposed in
a speech which l made in Franklin
county~a week or more ago, the more
certainly does he convict himself of
every charge which made against
him. The first specific interest which
1 have of his ASSOCIATION with this
pernicious trusts was his employment
in case here in Louisville for the
American Tobacco Company. He &C
lInowledged that employment, explain
ing it as a personal matter between
himself and Mr.. Gibson, attorney for
the Company, and declare It was the
only instance in which he had had any
connection whatever with the trust.
then showed from the Court of APP
peals 1records ataFrankfort that that
statement was wholly untrue; that Mr..
Willsonahad been counsel for the Cont
mental Tobacco Company, in tax case
at Louisville, in whichshe sought, for
that company, to evade payment of
tax claims of the city of Louisville
aggreagting one hundred thousand
dollars. Again admitting the truth Of
my statement, the Republican Guber-
material candidate acknowledged that
he had been mistaken when he said
at Bowling Green that he had repre-
sented the Tobacco Trust in but
single case and then as matter Of
courtesy to a. fellow lawyer. As a
second exclamation of his trust connec-
tions, Mr.. Wilson now comes forward
and states that he was "accidentiy"
employed in this Continental case
also. that he was EagainE empioyed by
Mr.. Gibson because he had. just
fought out Sin the Louisville courts
case of the Mengel Box Company, tot
Louisville. involving practically the
same question, and Mr.. Gibson knew
him to be familiar with these tax
matters. Such an obliging lawyer as
Mr.. Wilson has proved himself out of
his own mouth to be, especially where
brother alwyer of trust inclinations
seeks his services, that thought is
advisable to look into the Mengel Box
Company case for the purpose of ascer.
tanning if in that case also Mr.. Wilson
was obliging some one and did not
take that case originally from one of
the parties to it. 1 find that it, like
the Continental Tobacco Company, is a
New Jersey corporation. and accord
ing to the evidence of Mr.. c. C. Men
gel, President of the company. large
books of its stock are held by the Con-
tinental Tobacco Company and by Mr..
Duke. the tobacco king of this country.
This statement | quote from the Court
records, and it can be found at page As
of the records, and it can be found at
page 48 of the transcript of the records
in this Mengel Box Copmany case,
which transcript is on file in the Office
of the Clerk of the Court of Appeals at
Frankfort. and which is public record
of the State Of Kentucky.
\ Certainly Mr.. Wilson will not now
say that he did not know who his en-
lployers were when he took the case of
the Mengel Box Company. No lawyer