The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-10-18

Councilman w. l.. Bower made
the foregoing AFFIDAVIT, concerning the
statement OF Mr. oliphant, of the
lVincennes Bridge company. anent the
county bridge controversy.
( On the same day that Mr.. Bower
swears Mr. J. T. Oiiphant made the
statement he told it to Mr.. r. w.
lTully In the presence of Mr.. Robert
Noble. When Mr.. Tully was seen he
remembered the statement I'm sub
stance and that he could recall the
date as August 4 because he made
an entry on his books. Mr.. Oliphant
and Mr.. Bower rented a horse and
buggy from him that morning for the
purpose of making a drive. and on
his return TO the stable Mr.. Bower
told Mr.. fully and Mr.. Noble OF the
statement.
A Democratic magistrate told a
Sun reporter Yesterday and after
wards repeated il TO Mr.. Hazelip that
a man. whose name he refused TO
disclose told him the same statement
was made by Mr.. 0llphant 20 two
other men. He refused to divulge
any names, saying the men did not
care TO become entangled I'm II. How
ever, the information was conveyed
to the grand jury.
What the Ncws-Democrat Said.
The News-Democrat said Sunday:
AS result OF the slanderous
charge uttered by Thomas n. Hazelip.
the Republican nominee for county
judge. at Florence Station, the past
week, TO the effect that John T. Oil
plant, president of the Vincennes
ridge company, of Vincennes, Ind.
had told a prominent citizen that
he had 10 fix the whole court house
gang before he could build the
Clark's river bridge, aud which was
published in the afternoon Sun with
out any effort 10 ascertain the truth
fulness OF ii, the grand jury took up
the matter and probed il to the bot
tom. The foregoing report OF the
grand jury brands the whole story as
a lie, whether or not it was ever told
to Hazelip as he repeated il. The
grand jury had every member of
fiscal court. the county judge, Haze
lip and Councilman w. l.. Bower, the
citizen who is alleged to have made
the statement TO Hazelip, before II,
and sifteG the matter TO the bottom.
while the proceedings OF the grand
jury room are secret II has leaked
out that Councilman Bowers state
ment to the grand jury was the very
opposite 10 what Hazelip accredited
/ to him. Councilman Bower, IL is
said, told the grand jury that Presi-
dent Olipnant told him that IL was
the most rigid contract he had ever
been compelled to comply with, also
that the best of everything was de-
manded In substance this was what
he told the inquisitive (sic) body. His
levidence corroborated the testimony
Of the county judge and members Of
fiscal court. All testimony in the
grand jury room is given under oath.
again. the News-Democrat de-
manded the Sun TO produce the aft
davit Of the prominent citizen il
claimed would be sprung. II has been
icalled for on several occasions. and
the last week reply of the evening
organ was You know Hazelip has It..
Let us play the game as we see it,
ut may be inferred from this
statement that the Sun will not tell
the truth, but continue to lie, as 1t
has all along on this mater. The
Sun, as well as Mr.. Hazelip, knows
that Councilman Bower declined to
make any such AFFIDAVIT. but they
continue their dirty, besmirching, as
sassination of character by silently
refusing to acknowledge the truth.
"a report had been circulated that
an attempt was made to lndict Haze
lip and the Sun for criminal libel,
when no effort of the kind was ever
Contemplated. When the charge was
made it was placed before the grand
jury and II facts had been substan-
tiated indictments would have fol-
lowed against the so-called gang
j "Hazeip has not seen At TO re-
,llterate his Florence Station speech
land the SuB.h faii0d and refused 40