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

Fair Discussion of The Matters
Therein.
The race for County Judge has been
In progress several months. There
can be but one reason for Judge Dun
don's lengthy communication published
in the Kentuckian-Ci Citizen on last We'd
nesday, July Both. That was the last
issue of that paper before the day of
election. He delayed until the last
issue of that paper so as not to give
time for full and fair discussion Of the
facts therein announced by him, ESQ
that the voters could not see for
themselves how much or how little
there is in his claim.
The News has been shown a circu-
Lar letter which Judge Dundon is send
ing out to the voters of Bourbon. 1t
is Judge Dundon's article which ap-
peared in The Kentuckian-C Citizen
with a lot of other things inserted
here and there which Judge Dundon
either could not get printed in a news
paper, or was unwilling to say in a
newspaper, preferring to use the mails
to get these things to the voters just
before the election and too late for
reply.
He starts out by the meanest of all
insinuations that his opponent, if elect
ed County Judge, would not do his
Oondon's) cases justice. In other
words, he does not want the office to
get the salary out of it, No indeed
But he simply announced for County
Judge because his opponent would not
do him justicei But the trouble about
this is that Judge Dundon was a candi-
date for the Office several months be-
fore Mcmillan was thought of as can
didate.
He uses the phrase Good faith" in
reference to the Bourbon News. The
Bourbon News desires to know if the
rest of his statements are made in
the same Good faith" as the one to
which we have just referred.
Judge Dundon says he is opposed
to voting negroes in the coming cleo
ton. In the same cord he says that
the reason he agreed to defend Bud
Macon and others went to the polls
and voted for Democrat for the Leg
islatuerei
BY the way, as to his aversion to
voting negroes. 1t is still fresh in
the minds of the people in this section
how many negroes were voted for him
in Clintonville No. eight years ago.
We didn't hear Judge Dundon offer
to resign on that account.
OF course, Judge Dundon is not going
to vote negroes this time in the sense
Of going to the polls with them, but
friends he can't control Cd will do
this for him, and again when ap-
praised of it he will not resign.
Judge Dundon admits that he de-
Tended Blind Tiger in Claysville one
time. The Judges memory fails him.
He defended him as the records of the
Bourbon Cicuit Court will show, in
several trials until Bud Macon saw
that the juries of Bourbon county
would not stand for that and gave
him the limit. Then Macon made a
change in his attorney.
Judge Dundon says that there is no
statute against him taking employ
ment in criminal cases. You cannot
find a statute against doing a geat
many things which nobody should do.
Some things are left to a sense of
right and propriety. How can
County Judge, who takes an oath to
uphold the law persuade himself that
he can take employment to defend law
breakers? 1t is his business to issue
warrants of arrest and prosecute them
for violation of the law. The evil re-
suit of law breakers feeling that they
had County Judge to stand by them
is too obvious for argument.
Why does he not tell us of some
other County Judge of Bourbon County
who accepted employment in such
cases? Why does he not tell us of
some other County Judge in Kentucky
who takes employment in such cases?
He refers to the administration
which preceded him leaving an over
draft or floating debt of 100000
and he uses this as an excuse for the
bad condition of the turnpikes,
$45,000.00 a year taxes each of the
eight years during which Judge Dun
don has been County Judge, but he
neglected to add that the county still
has this Indebtedness of about $50, 000,-
90 besides unpaid contracts for bridges
amounting to $16,000.00 or S1S,000.00.
Referring to the published article of
his predecessor, Judge Smith, Judge
Dundon says that when Judge Smith |
went out of Office the average condi- |
ton of the roads was not nearly as
good as it is to-day. The grand jury |
of Bourbon county did not arraign |
Judge Smith for the condition of the |
roads, but it did arraign Dundon's ad- /
ministration last March Now we will |
submit to the people of Bourbon |
county who have travelled over the |
turnpikes Of Bourbon county how ac-
curate or true this statement is.
With few favored roads excepted, the
turnpike system of Bourbon county
has gone down, down and down every
year during the eight years Judge
Dundon has been in Office and the peo-
pie OF Bourbon county will bear us out
in this statement
To quote part of his card:
IF the people still want good turn
pixies, the only way to do is to submit
the question of bond issue to the peo-
pie and let them say whether or not
they are willing to be taxed in a sum
suf6cient to rebuild all the pixies"
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