The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-03-22
ALLIE YOUNG MAY
! BE- DEMOCRACY'S
NEXT CANDIDATE
State Journal Tells of Western
Trip, of Prominent Political
Factors.
Mountain Judge and BuckiDg-
ham Theater Proprietor.
is FRIEND OF JUDGE o'REAR

lState journal says.
Democratic politicians who think
they are very much on the inside OF
the organization as IL exists nowadays
in Kentucky, and who look upon
ICongressmen Ben Johnson, OF the
Fourth district; 0wsley Stanley, of
the Second district, and big Ollie"
James, of the First district, as the
three from among whom 1t will select
the next candidate for the party, for
governor OF Kentucky, had better
wake up and begin to look about
them.
"A junketing party to the west has
recently been arranged by certain
men at present influential in the
party organization, and It would be
well for the knowing ones to keep
their weather eye upon them and II
possible get on the real inside OF
the party organization.
''In this party, whose itinerary is
rather indefinite. are State Chairman
Henry X. Prewitt, OF Mt. Sterling;
John II. Whallen. OF Louisville, and
Judge Allie w. Young, OF Morehead.
Even to the uninitiated in Kentucky
politics it would not be necessary to
say there Is something afoot when
Isuch men get together just for day.
but when they go on long trip to-
gether, where they will be sleeping
in the same bed so to speak, for
several weeks. the cause of II all
must be sought
Some "Ancient" History.
"Whallen was a side partner OF
Allie Young. when the Granger ele-
ment was for kicking John entirely
outside the Democratic party lines.
and present day politicians readily
recall the fight within the Democrats,
state organization when Young would
have taken the control OF the organi-
zation from Granger and placed Il In
Whallen's hands but that former Gov
ernor Beckham stepped in and saved
the day for Granger and his friends
Judge Young sulked for months.
He told Governor Beckham that h.
would live to regret the day that he
| had saved the Granger crowd, and
Though the governor has never saio
so, some OF his friends think that the
mountain statesman was something
of prophet.
Following his turn down, Judge
Young went back to his home coun-
TRY, where he has always been a
strong character, and got into local
politics. He was placed upon the cir
cult bench, and the lawyers who hav.
practioed before him say he knows
his business and that the record he
is making on the bench will make
him a strong contender before the
people OF the state.
How He Stands.
while known to the liberals OF
the state as liberal man, Judge
Young has record that his friends
say is held by no other circNit Judge
| in the mountain country whele blind
tigers flourish like land patSnts oil
somebody else's land. Throughout
1 his district the temperance laws are
strictly observed, and there is said to
be not tiger in the brush.
"While discussing Judge Youns |
lone thinks OF the relations which |
exist between him and the one man
in the Republican ranks whom the
democratic leaders are somewhat |
ltimid about taekling that is the one |
man whom they would not care about
Having to oppose in contst for the
governorship. and that man is Judge
Edward c. O'Rear. IL there are three
men in Kentucky whose personal re-
llations are closer than those which
lexist between Henry r. Prewitt, Allie
lW. Young and Edward c. O'Rear the
fact has not become very well known
lCertainly this is not true of any tire,
lwell known in politics and of diff
ferent parties.
O'Rear Won't Oppose.
Snow, Judge O'Rear, who has been |
Thought TO have an eye on the Repub.
11ican gubernatorial nomination, main |
liz beeause of his decided stand fo>
ltemperance legislation and the rights |
Iof the growers Of tobacco, has told |
some of his closest friends that he
has no such ambition. Certainly he
will not entertain such an ambition. |
Isay those who know, IL Allie w. |
IYoung should be the Democratic
, nominee for that once.
"summing up the situation from |
l,ha yiawpoint of those who are par-
, i,ial 70 Judge Young he will have be- !
hind him in race for Democratic |
lnom,naton the influence OF the state |
!, lchaIrman and the Committeeman
: from his section Also the influence |
! ., the Louisville organization. or that
~ w a Controlled nv xxyh -.