The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-10-09

known 70 be guilty--snd the News
Democrat boasts OF that.
What county officials are doing
their duty?
Judge Wells, OF Galloway? His
term expires this year and he Is not a
candidate for Office. The night riders
have a full ticket out for the Demo-
cratic primary in Galloway.
County Attorney Krone and County
Judge Crumbaugh, of Lyon? They
are ostracized. They stood guard over
their own homes until the soldiers
arrived to protect them. Their coun-
ty organization is against them. The
other county officials are against
them.
Who else Is against the night
riders? Here are two big congress
sional districts and four judicial dis
tricts. Who else?
II is\all very we'll for candidates
before the primary in this city. where
The Sun single-handed has cultivated
an anti-night rider spirit and aroused
the citizens, to declare himself on the
side of law and order. II is popular
here.
But do these same candidates, who
talk law and order in Paducah. dare
assume the same tone when canvass
ing In the Birmingham section of
Marshall county, or among the night
riders on the edge OF McCracken. who
are just awaiting their opportunity,
with their allies from Graves, Mar
shall. Galloway, Trigg and Lyon. TO
swoop down on Paducah and burn
and kill?
Don't be too sure we are safe.
That is what Hopkinsville thought
when she took on her guard. Two
nights afterwards the town was raid
ed. Remember those wild nights last
winter. when our county Judge had
deputies guarding the telephone and
telegraph stations, policemen an
swered. fire alarms and more than
once mounted patrols secured the
countryi
There are night riders In Marshall.
for they have committed murder;
there are night riders in Hickman. for
they have committed murder: there
are night riders in Graves and Gallo
way, for they have burned property;
there are night riders In Ballard and
Livingston, for they have made visit
tations; there are night riders in Nc
for they have sent warnings
and scraped plant beds. Have you
heard of any of them moving away?
When the candidates go out among
these night riders DO they talk law
and order? The night riders to a /
man will spot any candidate that lifts I,
his hand against them. Candidates ]
might as well withdraw from the race /
and take their money back. If they
oppose the night rider organization.
A few days ago, candidate for an
office, who is implicated In a raid by
two confessions, sought to secure
from a reporter for The Sun an afi- |
davit to use in his canvass, and two
local candidates before the Demo-
cratic primary were along and called
on lawyers who are preparing suit.
Democrats OF The First District.
the Democrats of the Blue Grass. who
name your state ticket and depend on
YOU TO elect it. voted against the
ticket last fall TO repuiiate the state
league with murder
and arson. You cut your majority
from $4,000 down to 1000. but that
was not enough. These scoundrels
still think that is all you can cut IL.
They think II they can keep the night
rider vote at the primary and stil
hold on to their Offices, that Is all
they need.
Show them that they cannot play
fast and loose with murderers and in
cendlaries AMI still hold your votes.
and then the courts will do some
thing.