Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-11-05
GOV. J. 3. M'cREARY.


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lore, JUNE, 1912.
or to be rendered, bribery or intimi
1ation, but never before has the state
county or city been given what it wa!
rightfully entitled to.
The eight suits that have been
brought against the state must be
fought through all federal and state
courts, and are of vital Importance to
our people They involve for the state
S3S2,SS9, and for the county and city
taxing districts $S2S,896, or total
annually, of 81, 2O5, 1885,. sa 1
The railroad companies, realizing
the magnitude of this fight and anx-
ious to win out, not alone from fnan
cial standpoint, but to prevent the
great public announcement that is
bound to come in the wake of a vic
tory for the state, are calling up the
wonderful array of legal talent that is
at their command through the power
and influence that comes of the ire
mendous amount of money represented
in their combined capitalization of APP.
proximately one billion dollars.
Master Legal Minds.
Among the master legal minds that
are already engaged in preparing the
defense of the suing corporations are
Trabue, Dolan & Cox, of Louisville, fol-
the Illinois Central Railroad Company;
Calvin & Calvin, of Cincinnati, for the
Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pa
cifc Railroad Company; John T. Shell
by & Son, of Lexington, for the Chesa.
peake & Ohio Railroad Company; Col
Henry L. Stone, Helm Bruce, c. H
Norman, r. A. Colston, of Louisville,
vile, for the Louisville & Nashville
Railroad Company; Bec,1ham & Nc.
Quown, of Frankfort, and Ernst, Cas-.
satt & Cottle, of Cincinnati for the
South Covington & Cincinnati Street
Railway Company and the Union
Light, Heat and Power Company; Max.
well, Ramsey & Graydon, of Cincinnati.
for the Adams Express Company and
for the Southern Express Company.
In addition to this galaxy of legal
talent, the suing corporations have a
vast army of busy workers who never
room, and they may be described as
research lawyers, accountants and
statisticians, who are a mighty sup
portive element to the men who will
present the cases and make the pleas
and arguments.
Without detracting one iota from
the splendid ability and known loyalty
to the states interests possessed by
the attorney general, James Garrett,
and his three assistants, the common.
wealth's legal force, as compared with
that of the corporations, must seem
inadequate, indeed and when it is
taken into consideration that the at,
torney generals Office has a multi
plicity CT cases ard matters of state
to fully employ their attention, and
that the present situation comes in
the nature OF an emergency unfore-
seen and unprecedented in the states
history, the urgent necessity for the
employment of other able lawyers as
suppcrtive force 10 the attorney gen.
eral becomes quite apparent.
Ability, known loyalty to the cause.
and assured freedom from corporation
faint should be the gauge to govern
in the selection CT attorneys to assist
in the defense of the states interests
Justus cocbePs Interest.
My interest in the work just com.
pleted by the board was, and is, DIFF
ferent from, and greater than, that OF
any man in Kentucky or elsewhere
even though he may have been con
nected with the work. Love OF my
state and love for and memory of my
assassinated brother, whose brain
work constructed and whose blood
stained the statutes which made Il
possible to do what the Board of Valu
alton and Assessment has just com
pleted. have compelled of me the serv
Ice l have rendered in the matter, and
without ofllclal duS resting on me, J
have given untirIngly and almost con
stantly more than FIVE months OF time
energy and study to these Assessments
in the interest of the state and its PEG
pie, to the exclusion of every other
nterest-business and personal
Therefore. with such an interest and
with the knowledge that have gain,
ed through my labors. feel that am
qualified. amply qualified, to make an
appeal, in the name of the 100000 tax
payers OF the state who furnish seven
elghts OF the revenue for the states