Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1911-09-07

canvass Tor me nomination and IN the
campaign after his nomination, al
though not performing any of the
duties of his office az Judge, he .dreW
the salary of that Office, which amount
ed to $4,000 per annum, or s416 per
month, and announces that he will not
resign unless elected Governor, and
that he. will appoint bis own success
sor, and not have his Successor 49,
pointed by Governor Wilson. 1t is
no excuse for him, as stated by some
of his friends, that in ali the history
OF keptucky no other Judge of the
highest court Of the State has ever
done. before as the jurist candidate of
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 to
excuse him for holding the Office and
drawing the salary of a Judge of the
Court OF Appeals while a candidate
Tor Governor are not in point, and are
not analogous to his case.
Mayor Head discharged all the
duties of Mayor while a candidate for
Governor Hon. Ben Johnson attend.
ed to all Of his duties as a Congress
man while a candidate for Governor,
and Hon. Ollie James, while a candi.
date for United States Senator. attend.
ed to all of his duties as a member of
congress, and neither of these three
men had cases before them in which
Ine voters were interested, whose SUD-
port they desired; and 1t may be also
said OF Judge Paynter, when a candi.
date for United States Senator only a
short time. he remained in Frankfort
and attended regularly to his duties
as Judge.
Judge O'Rear seems to have over.
looked entirely the seventh plank in the
Republican platform, which he wrote
himself, according to his own admis.
sion, and which provides that the ju-
dietary OF the State In both the Cir.
cult and Appellate Courts should be
chosen on nonpartisan grounds, and
the continuance in Office of faithful
Judicial servants should be deter
mined by no other qualification than
dtness.
Judge Parker. Of New York, whev
nominated as the Democratic candi.
date for President, resigned as Q
Judge of the Supreme Court of New
York the day that he accepted the
Democratic nomination for President
and his salary was $4,000 per annum.
Governor Woodrow Wilson, Of New
Jersey, resigned as President OF
Princeton University the day that he
accepted the nomination for Governor
Of New Jersey, although he was re-
ceiving $4,000 ger annum as Presi-
dent of the university, and his salary
as Governor was little more than half
as much as he received as President
of Princeton University.
Robert Riddell, of Kentucky, re-
he accepted the nomination as a DEM
ocratic candidate for Judge Of the
Court Of Appeals.
Judge O'Rear, In his Elizabethtown
speech, made lengthy defense Of
Senator Bradley's alleged untainted
title to his seat as United States Sen
ator. and said: Senator McCreary,
Henry Wa'terson, Ollie James, Colo
mel John Allen and Colonel Frank
Fehr and a number of other noted
Democrats in Kentucky were voted for
by those insurgents or boilers. which
ever you want to call them, and Sen
ator McCreary never once asked them
to change their votes from him. indi-
eating that he was willing to receive
the votes of these four Democrats. who
afterward voted for Bradley. Judge
ORear could have avoided misrepre-
sentation of me II he had asked me to
tell him the facts.
I was not In Kentucky during the
lUng.drawn-out contest between Beck
ham and Bradley for United States
Senator. but was In Washington at,
tending to my duties as a United
States Senator, and now have In my
n lattar from Hon Gus