The Bourbon news., 1907-03-12
This Spaoe Bought and Paid For
THE TRUTH ABOUT CARL ISLE!

1t is again positively asserted here
that the records of the police Court of
the City of Carlisle will show-unless
such records have been deliberately
falsified since the investigation of two
weeks ago was made-that the figures
given in the Bourbon News were cor
rect. Those records at that time show
ed that the number of such prosecu-
tions had increased ninety per cent.
This investigation was made by an at
torney of this city whose name can
be had at the office of this paper for
the asking and in making this inves-
tigation of the records, he was assisted
by the Police Judge of the city of Car
lisle.s' Carlisle is only sixteen miles
away, and any person who wishes to
satisfy himself can easily do so. And
more. The gentleman who made the
investigation stands ready to accompany
any individual or committee selected by
those who either fvor OF. oppose local op-
tion and prove the truth of his state
ments and will pay the expenses of such
committee to Carlisle and returns
Bat argument is unnecessary, as the
truth of every statement in the BOur-
bon News is proven by the newspapers
of Carlisle.
It is we'll known that newspapers are
ever ready to defend their people and
their city against any unjust or mali
cious attacks and are equally as ready
to expose any falsehood uttered con-
cerning them. Fortunately, the ethics
of the newspaper profession require
editors to tell the truth in their edi-
torial columns. Much as they would
like to do so as individuals, this fact
has prevented them from making any
denial of the statements in the Bonrbou
News. Of the statements OF the Car
Isle people, the Carlisle Democrat in
its issue of Saturday, says:
1.-The Local Option fight in Paris
wakes hotter and hotter by degrees.
The whisky people got a man to write
up Carlisle, in which there were many
distortions of facts, and in rebuttal the
temperance people had a man to write
up Carlisle from their standpoint. It's
now evident that distortions were not
confined entirely TO one side. We re-
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cause however worthy, often leads them
to make statements to carry out their
point not exactly in accord with real
truth.
This paper is edited and published by
N. H. McNew, the County Judge ot
Nicholas county. When their state
ments are repudiated and their truth
denied by the highest official in THEN
own county, the statements OF the ad
vocates of local option in Carlisle are
certainly not entitled to much weight
in other places.
The Carlisle Mercury, edited by the
Hon. Green Keller, is one of the best
known and widely read country papers
in Kentucky. Much as he as an indi
vidual would have liked to have done
so, editor of this paper could not stuli
fy himself by denying the truth of the
statements in the Bourbon News. II
his issue of last Thursday, he said:
"A writer in the Bourbon News max
ing a fight against prohibition came tC
Carlisle last week and hunted up great
numbersof statements in regard to the
business here under local option and un-
der the license system. We are not
fanatical enough to denounce all he
said as being absolutely untrue, but
like ali specialists he puts the greatest
stress in favor of things that suit him,
and leaves unnoticed things That do not
suit his purpose. There is no denying
the fact that there are more vacant
business houses in Carlisle than there
has been for some time, but the fact
remains that a majority Of them were