Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-06-26

mcnt did not take this money from the
county tit did do it, and give it to the
sheriff. Then so to the 1912 records and
lind, if you please that w. NJ. Gardner the
present treasurer saved right at 100000
Tor the county, for the two years Just p ,ssed
the made this settlement instead of Dennis
Overland above what these committees had
been doing for the county-for Fair Plays
taxpayers, and then say whether it is not
good for them that they have Treasurer
Oh, will the people be hoodooed any
longer with such damnable rot as Fair
Play and his kind are putting through
them. There is an old saying that you
have to tell Kentuckians lies and rob them
before they will like you, and this is GER
tlinly demonstrated in Fair Play. God
grant that the people would come and ex-
anime the records and get facts and figures,
and not 20 off after such fllse doctrines
preached for such false gods as Fair Play.
Up until about eight or ten years ago the
people of Morgan county had beer robbed
of thousands upon top OF thousands OF dol
lars, and Farplay said not a word. 10
the last few years, during the last two ad-
ministrations we have saved many thous-
ands OF dollars and built a court huose,
bridges and many other things to the cred t
OF the Fiscal Court, and now comes Fair
Play and Others OF his kind, and call the
fellows who had been robbing item good
fellows, and us who have been saving and
doing, cut.throats and thieves. The sooner
God will reach down and take from among
us such false and defaming prophets as
Fair Play, the sooner our people will get
their eyes open. God speed the time when
our people will begin to educate themselves
Alright.
When the voters Of Morgan county hear
candidates believing about over the coun-
ty about the Treasurer, who saves them at
least $500 90 per year over and above his
salary, brand that candidate right then as
being in favor, Qike the dog that returns to
its vomt and The SOW TO her wollowing in
the mire) OF returning TO the committee
settlements so they can partake OF the pet
ty grating as they may have chance and
opportunity.
As evidence OF the necessitv OF the Road
Engineer, ! wish 10 invite Fair Play and
any and all who NAV read this article, and
especially those who are inclined TO the
damnable and false belief that this Office
should not exist, to take this matter up
with Evert Mathis, the present Engineer,
and let him take you to the records which
show the difference in the slviog of hnn-
dreds and almost thousands Of dollars, and
yet in his blissful ignorance tells us that
we do not need any such officers.
The strongest blacksmith in Morgan
county could not take sledge and beat il
into Fair Plays head, (Gor it is as hard as
adamant that the savings that have come
of these two Offices in the last two years
have been sufficient TO pay hundreds OF dol
lars on the new bridges now under con-
struction in the county, but it's nevertheless
true that this is the case, and yet Fair Play
will not vote for any man unless he is a.
ginst this kind Of progress, nor udless he
will first denounce the laws Of the land and
stand in open violation OF them. God pity
him.
lie also accuses the county judge Of whit
ling on goods boxes.
Is this false or is it true? / now chal-
LANCE Fair Play to find single man who
has ever seen Judge Ferguson whiting on
boxes, and ifhe can not find this TO be true
then have you not, Fair Play, done this man
great and irreparabe injury by this false
hood? You should be careful, sir, for men,
names and personal regulations are all
they have that is exceedingly valuable, and
when you rob them Of these attributes yol
have taken that which enriches you no
and makes them poor indeed.
Fair Play closes his article by declaring
that the devil would beat Jesus Christ two
to one il they were here in race. Well
this, presume, has Just as much truth II
it as anything else he has said. Yet, il thi:
assertion is true there is sufficiently good
reason for it. For example, you take Fail
Play, and Others OF his kind, who pose a
adherents Of the Cruciied One, but VIII,
really are his greatest and most formidable
foes, and they stand in the pulpts Of tn
land and correspond with their local pa
pers preaching fabrications and falsehood
to the people, dishing out to them danna
bic theories and assertions which common
sense, reason, justice and the records re
flute, the truihfulness of which now an
here challenge, and dare, yes, doubledar
Fair Play TO prove except as | have give
them. invite you TO the record
With this kind OF deciples with thei
damnable arguments, black and false, il
no wo1der that the Christ is on the bac
ground and that the devil is in ;he lead.
am not advised, but l'l wager a peanut q
ganst the preachers pocket book Gi lei
bet at alp that the churches TO which h
has been preaching and pastorGne) are a
far back in the dark as the county woul
be il the people should do as he is doinj
and wants them 10 do.
If Fair Play would get out of this cleri
cal, political rut into which lie has falle
and in which lie is flounderng, and Civ
his time and attention to getting gooc
clear cut case of pure and unde6led re
ligion, and then see to it that he keeps il
Instead playing TO the galaries OF the dev
and espousing his cause, perhaps Chris
would get get in the ascendoncy and wou!
run an even, il not a winning, race wit
the devil.
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