The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1913-08-01

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results noticeable. There is nobody
to look after the pixies. The County
Judge does not leave his office to see
whether they are properly repaired or
whether the tax payers are getting val
ue receive for the money spent. No,
the people are not in no humor to
raise more funds by issuing bonds and
paying more taxes to meet the bonds.
They are not satisfied with the way
in which the 100000 or $45, 100000 of
taxes per year is being spent. They
are certainly in no humor to put more
funds in the same hands to be spent
in the same way.
What the voters want is some one
who will not have so much business
! of his own but what he can leave the
| officeof County Judge long enough to
| look after the turnpikes. of. Bourbon
county and see that the roads are re-
paired and kept up with the taxes al
ready being paid each year.
In other counties in Central Ken
lucky which pay no more taxes than
Bourbon county the County Judges
who will attend to the office enough to
provide roads with the present taxes.
Speaking of having let the roads go
without repairs until it was necessary
to rebuild about 40 miles of such new
road the Judge says: These good
Dads were not built for the benefit
of my particular friends as alleged, but
one of first was built in a community
where / had never had a strong per-
sonal following" OF course, that was
the very place to put up his political
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friends so he would be strong in the
next election where he was weak in
the previous election.
Judge Dundon tries to leave the i'm
preston that he is not responsible for
the condition of the roads. That the
Magistrates are responsible, not the
Judge. We have twice referred to
the fact that the Court of Appeals of
Ketucky in 1902, before Judge Dundon
accepted the office as County Judge
held that the County Judge is respon-
sible and may be indicted for failing
to discharge the duty of keeping up
the turnpikes. We offered in the
event anybody questioned this to pro-
cure copy of the opinion of the Court
of Appeals and publish it. Nobody,
not even Judge Dundon, questioned
this, because he knew we could get
and publish on him a copy of this
opinion decided in 1902.
He speaks of the law holding the
County Judge responsible, but he says
it will not go into effect until next
year. So, you see he is side-stepping
He knows we were not referring to
that new law when we said the Court
of Appeals decided in 1902 that the
County Judge is responsible and can
be indicted for the bad condition of
the roads.
NOTE-The County Judge has. the
power to summon the Magistrates to
meet and stay in session until they
take steps to repair turnpikes.
When he speaks ofthe Fiscal Court
entering into contract with the L. &
N. R. r. about the jail he says 1--WE
did it."
When he says the Fiscal Court re-
CURED the Louisville & Nashville Rail-
road Company to- make overhead
crossings he says 1--WE did it, And so
with reference to everything else
done by the Fiscal Court for which
any credit can be claimed he says
1--WE did it,
But, bless your soul, when it comes
to the bad tunpikes "we didn't do it."
No, the Magistrates did that!
He says that under the administra-
ton of Judge Smith the Magistrates
drew from the County Treasury on an
average of nearly $4,000 each per
year. The Judge forgets to tell
us that the new court house was built |
during that time and that the money
drawn by these Magistrates was well !
spent in securing a substantial and |
handsome building at low price and |
that part of this money was spent en-
ploying Magistrates to go out and look
at the turnpikes and see that they |
were properly repaired and that the
money spent on them was well spent.
The little money spent by the county
In this way saved the county thousands
end thousands of dollars. A little of !
the same policy during Judge Dun
don's administration would have given