The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1911-08-11
Policical Snap Shots Of Lexington Herald.
(By Sherman Harvey.)

Judge Lewis l.. Walker, who by ap-
pointment of Acting Governor William
H. Cox, is Judge of the Thirteenth
Judicial District, composed of the
counties of Mercer, Boyle, Lincoln and
Garrard, in place of the late Judge M.
c. Saufiey, has made it known to his
friends that he will not seek nomina-
ton and election at the hands of the
Republican party. Judge Walker is
one of the most learned lawyers of the
state and splendid speaker, and his
determination was brought about from
the fact he was neglecting large and
lucrative law practice. The Demo
cratic majority, too, is hopelessly large.
The Democrats have nominated for
the judgeship Commonwealth Attor-
ney Charles A. Hardin of Harrods-
burg, nephew of former Attorney
General P. Watt Hardin. He is one of the
best criminal lawyers in Kentucky, and
as prosecutor has done mnch to make
his district one of the cleanest in Ken
lucky, Mr.. Hardin will not have any
opposition from the Republicans.
The Democrats of Garrard county
are backing County Attorney j. E.
Robinson to succeed him. Mr.. Robin
son is now serving his second term and
is one of the rising young lawyers of
his section. He has prosecuted sixteen
persons for homicide in his county.
fourteen of whom were convicted, and
has banished from its confines the last
of the bootleggers and blind tigers.
Garrard county is Republican by $50
majority, but twelve years ago. on ac-
count of laxity in the enforcement
of the laws, the people voted the party
out of power and entrusted the reins
of government to the Democrats. No
Republican has since been elected in
the county, except member of the
Legislature, who won at the time w.
o. Bradley was elected Governor.
Garrard county is the former home
of Kentucky's Junior Senator. There,
for more than third of a century,
he was a familiar figure upon the
streets of Lancaster, and as a prac-
ticing attorney his eloquent voice was
often heard in the courts.
Although the Senator's political
triumphs have removed him from the
old home he is yet honored and rever-
ed by those who know him best as one
of Kentucky's most gifted sons.
The Democrats of Garrard county
have selected their candidate for Rep
resentativt, j. M. Farra, and he looks
every inch winner. Prominent as a
farmer and close student of econo-
mic questions, Mr.. Farrar is looked up
on as an ideal candidate for the posi-
ton to which he aspires. In the prim-
airy election he defeated ]. A. Doty,
ex-COunty Clerk, an old Confederate
soldier, and the present Representative
j. o. Bogie. Mr.. Farra won out by a
systematic house-to-house canvass in
which he met every voter in the county
and his campaign methods are causing
the Republicans much alarm.
That a vigorous campaign is ahead
is attested by the organization of a
Democratic campaign committee, at
the head of which is w. H. Brown a
prominent business man of Lancaster.
Mr.. Brown says he sis a Democrat be-
cause he can't help it" and that he
entertains no fears of the result in
November.
County Judge A. D. Ford, who is
serving his third term, has announced
that he will retire. Former Chief of
Police ]. A. Beasley, who gained an
enviable reputation for having rid Ian.
caster of bootleggers and blind tigers,
is an announced candidate for the place
as is ex-Sheriff C. A. Arnold.
For sheriff of the county a three
cornered fight is now on with perhaps
two other candidates yet to announce.
c. A. Robinson, the present chief de,
putty, is out for the place and has pit.
ted against him ex-Sheriff w. L. Law
son and Ashby Arnold. Former AS.
SCISSOR w. S. Carrier and ]. R. Rubles
are receptive candidates, and it is said,
combine their interests and become a
formidable ticket, one taking the posi-.
ton of sheriff and the other chief de-
putty.
E. B. Ray of the Buckeye section,
and David Sanders are announced can
didates for County Assessor and will
make active canvasses.
Green Clay Walker, editor of the
Central Record, who has license to
practice law, has announced his can.
didacy for the office of County Attor.
ney, the present incumbent, j. E.
Robinson, having declined to make the
race for third term. Mr.. Walker is
a young man and has for some time
hesitated about giving up the editorial
sanctum for the practice of the law.
If he is as successful in the latter as
in tho forrnar his racord will he ono IN