The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1911-09-13

! Is one. Senator on whose title there Ia
no stain, and on whose record there Is
no blot" Why was 1t necessary to say
anything on that subject? II seems
to me that if the hour of eulogy had
arrived il would have been more ap-
propriate for Bradley TO have eulO-
/ gized O'Rear, as he had just been
nominated as the Republican CANDIDATE
| for Governor.
JUDGE O'Rear's Resignation as a Judg.
of the Court of Appeals.
Judge O'Rear, in his ElizabethtOwn
| speech, to excuse himself for not IT,
| signing the Office oi"Judge of the
| Court of Appeals while a candidate
/ for Governor. referred to me as fol
| lows: My distinguished opponent
/ also holds an Office of power and dig
] nifty as Peace Commissioner perhaps
/ with some profit, also He has not re-
/ signed from that position, and l hope
/ he will not resign.
/ II Judge ORear had asked ne
about this, | would have preventeI
/ him from disappearing me. | was
I President of the American Peace and
/ Arbitration League, which has lar5e
membership in various States, and
! whose main object is the settlement o,
international disagreements without
| war by an international arbitration
/ tribunal.
When I decided to be a candidate
for Governor l was unwilling to hold
that Office and not attend to its duties
while a candidate for Governor, ans
I resigned, to take effect January :,
1911. Ny associates tried for a while
TO keep me in office, but my resigna-
ton was finally accepted, and l re
ceived no pay from the first day OF
January, 1911. The letter Of the Gen
eral Secretary of the American Peace
and Arbitration League accepting nv
resignation Is as follows:
April 20, 1911.
Hon. James B. McCreary, Richmond,
KY:
Dear Sir-In compliance with your
proposal ar the directors meeting Of
June, 1910, to retire January l. 1911.
in favor of Mr.. Clark or Mr.. Clews, il
personal affairs require your atten-
ton in Kentucky, and in accord with
your recent letter to Vice President
Clark. reaffirming the same, your res
ignatiOn as President of the American
Peace and Arbitration League was &C
cepted at an adjourned meeting of the
Board of Directors, held al Mr.. Clews'
office, April 10, 1911.
Vice President Clark declined the
honor on account of business engage
ments requiring his absence many
months in the year, and Mr.. Clews
was elected as President of the
League.
BY unanimous vote of the board
you we're elected as Honorary Vice
President. Kindly acknowledge re-
ceipt of this and oblige, Yours truly.
ANDREW B. HUMPHREY,
General Secretary"
was under no obligation to resign.
because did not hold either State
office or a United States office, but
resigned because ! was unwilling %
neglect the duties of an important o.
fee while | was a candidate for Gov
ernor, and which believed would con-
sumo nearly one year.
| should not have referred TO Judge
O'Rear holding an office while can
d.date for Governor but for his refer
enCe TO me.
Judge O'Rear has been, according 70
his own statement, a Judge OF tie
! Court of Ape for eleven years. He
! has FIVE years to serve as Judge be-
fore his present term expires. FOT
, two years il has been currently re-
: ported Judge O'Rear would be a can
didate for Governor, and for NUM-
, Der of months before the Court of Ap-
D., pealS adjourned for the present sum
mer recess he did not perform the
duties of Judge, but was actively en-
gagged making speeches and conduct
: ing his campaign and consulting with
his political supporters, and he will De
} absent from his duties as Judge dur
ing the months of September and OC-
tober. The average man will sea
Judge O'Rear's situation and the diff
: Guilty of dischaTging his duties as
] Judge during the years he was pTepar
ing to be a candidate for Governor,
when voters, whose support he de-
J sired, had cases before him in the
| Court of Appeals which involved their
Z property, liberty or life. They vii.
= also notice that during the months
Judge ORear engaged in an active
q canvass for the nomination and in the
campaign after his nomination, a
though not performing any of the
: duties OF his office as Judge, he drew
+ the salary of that Office which amount
De- ed TO $4,000 per annum, or S416 per
2 month. and announces that he will no.
resign unless elected Governor, AMI
that he will appoint his own success
sOr, and not have his successor ap-
L pointed by Governor Wilson II =
? no excuse for him, as stated by some
. of his friends, thar IN all the history
4 Of Kentucky no other Judge of the
= highest court of the State has ever
2 done before as the jurist candidate OF
4 the Republican party is now doing.
= and that this is the first act OF that
> kind, and therefore should be over
= looked
. The Cases Cited BY Judge O'Rear Are
+ Not Analogous to His Case.
The cases cited by Judge O'Rear %
excuse him for holding the Office and
l. drawing the salary of a Judge of the
r Court of Appeals while a candidate
c for Governor are not in point, and are
not analogous to his case
: Mayor Head discharged ali the
= duties of Mayor while a candidate for
l. Governor. Hon. Ben Johnson attend