The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1911-01-31
SITUATION PERPLEx|NG.
Sentiment of Bourbon Growers
is Greatly Divided and Both
Factions at Work.
PETITION IN CIRCULATION.
Cut-Out Advocates and Oppo-
nents Each Claim to Have a
Majority in Acreage.

Majority in Acreage.
The tobacco situation in Bourbon |
county IS the all-absorbing topic. AS
to whether Bourbon county will grow
this year or cut out the crop is u mat
ter yet to be determined.
Sentiment in this county as regards
the movement to cut out or grow is
largely divided. Nothing in many
years has appencd to cause wide
breach among the growers. Promi-
nent g-owers1 are at the head of both
factions and little is being left undone
to furtherStheir resp active causes,
For more than week petition has
been in circulation by those who op
pose the cut-nut with the result that
a large number of land owners and
tenants have signed. The fcanvas / for
signatures has been conducted on the
quiet and the success with which it
met is being closely guarded. Many
farmers, it is asId, who have signed
the petition have expressed their will
ingness to abide by the decision of the
majority in the Burley belt. The
petition is as follows:
The cut-Out sentiment of this coun-
ty being very much exaggerated. for
the sake of influencing public senti-
ment here and elsewhere by certain
newspapers and interested parties. and
believing tnat large majority OF our
growers are opposed to the cut-out
movement and do cordially endorse the
resolution Ct the meeting of January
Ia, 1911. we, tho undersigned tobacco
growers of Bourbon county, for the
purpose of proving the above facts do
hereby'declare yourselves in favor of
the right and privilege of any one to
grow tobacco in 1911 who wishes to do
so, and We hereby append to our names
the number of acres that we usually
grow"
On the other hand advocates of the
cut-out plan are active with pledge
books and solicitors have been sent in
to every precinct to secure pledges.
The success of 1.-THE movement cannot
yet be determined in Bourbon county
as the situation at this stage is very
perplexing. both sides claiming to
have maturity.
The growers of WUodfOrd county
held rousing meeting at the court
house In Versailles Saturday after
noon and thousand acres were pledg-
ed. More than three hundred growers
attend and the vote to cut out was ..un-
animOus.
Poolers and non poOlers. tenants and
some OF the largest land owners in
WoodfOrd county. united in the effort
to cut out the crop and many on both
sides volunteered to take pledge books
and secure signatures among {the far
mers.
At the close of the meeting the con-
vention extended rising vote of
thanks to Campaign Chairman Bradley
Wilson. of the Burely Tobacco Union.
who made the principal address.
Chairman Wilson, after the meeting
Settled it for Woodford county," as
there was no Outspoken opposition to
the cut-out movement.
Among those in attendance ct the
meeting the tenants we're as enthusl-
astic in favor of the cut-out as the
land owners. They said they would
much prefer to raise some other crop
and to cut out tobacco.
A meeting Of the tobacco growers of
Grant county was helC in Williams
town Saturday afternoon. Hundreds
of acres were pledged to the cut-out
mostly in small lots.
Pledge books were taken out and the
growers are actively Engaged in get
ting signatures. Grant county is al
most unanimous for the cut-Out but
has been holding back awaiting the ac-
ton of the Blue Grass counties.
The tobacco growers of Mont gomery
county who insist on planting q crep
this year were outnumbered z toll. in
their own Injecting at Mt. 8 Sterling
Saturday by the cut-out adherents
and failed to put through resolution
declaring in favor of glowing crop
in 1911. The debate was so hot that a
riot almost resolted and feeling in the
meeting was intense.
An immense crowd Twas in attend
ance. The meeting was held for the
purpose of getting the sense of the
tobacco growers regarding the .cut-out
of the crop in Montgomery county.
The vote on resolution to cut out
the crop this year was .called for but
from the turmoil existing Jas a result
of the heated arguments it was impos
sible for the tellers determine the ex-
act number on both sides.
The independents of Montgomery,
or those who want to grow crop.
will hold no further meetings. but will
60 ahead and start to raising crop
while hundreds will cut out.
The campaign for signers to the cut
out pledge will be continued and those
favoring it state that the large major
ity of farmers will join their move
ment. This will not affect the far
mers wanting to grow. however. and
as one man put it at the meeting
Tobacco will either be grown in
Montgomery county. or hell will be
raised" Those who are for cut out
are determined to cut out and those
wanting to raise are equally determin-
ed.
Trouble between the factions was
narrowly averted by cool heads. Sever
al hot arguments occurred on the
stree IS after the meeting. The men
hacking u cut-Out declare the indie.