The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1913-07-11

Grand Jury. Gust published) does not
agre viii him, so refer the reader to
that report.
Five of the largest business PROPOSE
tons that have come before the Bour-
bon County Courts that wen recall:
Building of the court house in the
seventies, costing the county $685.
900. Taking over the turnpikes from
the stockholders to the county, and de
vising ways and means to pay for them
/ involving an amount upwards of $780,
| 600. The organizing and systemizing
the turnpike repair system, which
takes half of the county levy each
year. The law suits with the insur-
ance companies over the insurance on
the court house, amounting to more
than $4,000 The building of the
present court house, and equipping it
| involving an amount of $165, 900, All
the above business propositions were
during the administrations of the for
mer County Judges and no one ever
heard of the charge of mismanagement
and graft until this literary production
of last Saturday.
No. Three-"Because Judge DundOn
is independently acts independently
and thinks independently, no matter
whose selfish interests it hurts" Now
just what the great unknown means
by independent" and mo matter
whose selfish interest it hurts, I am
at a loss to know. If he means that
his Idol has spent three or four hun
dred thousand dollars of the tax pay
ers money on about fifty miles of
turnpike in the last four or ei&t years
making a D. D. Boulevard for his par
| ticular friends and letting the other
300 miles OF turnpike in the county go
without repairs or nearly so, and he is
| Independent to the appeals of the sell
! fish interests of the taxpayers who live
on the 800 miles of unrepaired turn
| pike, then the great unknown is right
to call that independent. If that is in
dependence CD certainly Judge Sam
uels and Judge Halves had some in
dependence in their make up. Neither
was ever known to leave their office
to solicit a vote when a candidate, and
+ Judge Halves was never known to
name his candidacy to any one, either
in his office or on the street, nor
anywhere, his position being Judge
should never electioneer.
+ No. Four. Because he is a. man Of
firm convictions and a man who has
never been known to change or mod
ify his convictions for a selfish gain
or personal preferment." Now read
between the lines; he is the only
honest Judge Bourbon county ever
had. Now if anyone will read the rec
ordS of the Fiscal Courts he will find
=
county official $1,000 extra for services
they thought he had earned, and 500
to another county official for the same
reason. The first named official re-
fused the $1,000, not because he had
not earned it, but because as he stat
ed, it was illegal and against the con-
stitution of the State. The second
named official accepted his 500 and
put it to his bank account. The Court
of Appeals afterwards rendered a de-
cision that this extra allowance was
! illegal. All the former County Judges
| had, and have not only political con-
-Tictions, but RELIGIOUS convictions
also.
! No. because he is a MAN"
! Now just what the great unknown
means by this because" l am unable
to comprehend. There must be some
great significance in the last word as
! it is extra large capitals, not only the
first letter, but the entire word Per
haps he means that class of the
Genus Homo, that write articles to
newspapers trying to injure the char
acter CT the dead by innuendoes and
then forget to sign his name to them
Vote For Judge Dundon," when you
answer this land | hope you WILD let
me ask of you not to be guilty Gas in
your LAST of the hyena, ghoulish act
of digging up the good name of the
dead of some of the best men that
ever lived in the county, because the
opponent of your Idol married the
niece Of one of these former County
: Judges that have passed to the great
! beyond. Judge Matt Turney's life, as
are the lives of Judge Samuels, Judge
Halves, Judge Man and Judge Pur-
nell, an open book to all, and their
names will always be sacred to the
good and fair minded people of this
county. AMI now as to the two living
former County Judges, one of whom is
here to answer for HIMSELF and it
would be like stabbing in the back to
attaek\his character So ask and in
vite you to take all your hatred and
spleen against the former County
Judges out of me, and I say turn the
lights on, examine every official act
of mine. Yes, every private act, every
dealing l have had with my fellow
men, view me from every standpoint
and make it public, and if you will
make the lights bright enough we
will find out the unwritten history
of the insurance suits, who shirked
responsibility, also about the plot that
was concocted to swindle Bourbon
County out of $4,000 by circulating
the report ESQ that every man, wo-
man and child in the county knew of
it, that the court house building that
was nearing completion was unsafe
and would fall down if the plans were
not changed, and by the change the
contractor would charge the county
$4,000 more than the contract called