The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1913-04-04

| ment in any suit has been recOfued
by the judge. The property and
rights of your citizens are involved
in the Judgments of these courts
over which he presides, and whose
records he has failed to properly
keep, and his negligence in this re-
gard has rendered the acts of his
court In a great many instances Of
OF no effect whatever, as no court
Of record, which all Of his courts
are, can speak except by its records,
presume that the Judge has beef
too busy with his private affairs
to give the public's business careful
attention. As / said before, all of
these matters are shown by the pub
lie records OF your county. ! make
these charges now in the beginning
Of the campaign in order that you
may Investigate and find that they
are true, and in order that the par
ties charged with illegally receiving
money and failure to discharge their
duties, may have ample time to
make any defense which they have
or think they have, to these charges.
| am not taking snap judgment on
anyone, or reserving my charges I'M
til 1t is too late for those accused to
make defense or denial thereof, and
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fairs exists as to make such charges
possible, much less imperative, and
while in my campaign as we'll as in
my administration, II you honor me
with this office, must do justice to
all, whether friend or foe, yet de-
sire to be as merciful as the facts
and the interest of our people will
permit. / request and urge every
person charged by me herein to ex-
plain to the people their acts COM
planned Of, and l defy them all to
show a single misstatement made by
me. I' 3. % .'.:
You ali know that for years graft
and mismanagem6fit bf Your county
funds have been rife. You knew
that too much money has been 6x-
pended on road work in the county |
for the benefit received, you know |
the crying need OF reform in these |
matters so that the waste OF the
money wrung from your sweat and
toll may be stopped. You know that |
you cannot trust incompetent, care
less and wasteful officials to remedy
the many abuses under which we
suffer. You cannot expect a man,
or set of men, whose hands are filthy
with graft, or who have illegally re-
celved your money, to discharge the
duty of forcing the disgorging OF
your public funds by those misap-
them. 1t is a duty of
your County Judge, your County At
torney, your Sheriff, your County
Clerk, and Mr.. Morrow to pay back
to the county all sums illcgally re-
coivod by them. II is a duty of your
County judge and especially OF your
County Attorney to have suit
brought TO recover these Illegal APP
uropriations. All of your officers .
owe to you a full and faithful dis
charge of their duties; yet you find
all of the persons charged with the
duty of protecting your funds in the
of being in like condemna-
ton with the other misappropria-
tors of public money. You need
change. 1t seems that a Court
House Ring" exists in your county,
whose members are Illegally getting
your money for their own ends and
each other in their nefar-
ious acts. This ring should be
broken, you should Turn the ras-
Gals out" l have never held but one
public office, that of mayor of Madi-
and | invite your close ex-
animation of my conduct therein and
am sure you will find that no dirty
dollar ever stuck to my fingers, and
that my honesty and efficiency in that
office show me worthy of public
trust. If you will elect me County
Judge l will be in my office during
all business hours, ready and able
to attend to public business; l will
give all persons justice without favor
Or fear; l will cause suits to be filed
to recover all Incorporated mon
ey of the county; | will correct the
abuses of the road system and get
value received for the money spent
for the county and will have no pets
Dr. favorites; | will give you an hon
est, clean, impartial, efficient and
economical administration of your
affairs.
Voters and Taxpayers! Do you
want incompetence and graft to con-
.inue in the management of your af-
fairs? Or do you want an honest,
clean, fearless, impartial efficient
and economical administration there.
Of? Do you want to clean out the