The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1913-07-29

The Board of Election Commission
ers of Bourbon County, consisting OF
the Sheriff of Bourbon County and a
Democratic Election Commissioner
and a Republican Election Commits
sioner, met last Thursday and what
the News predicted several weeks
ago would happen, was exactly what
did happen.
The readers of the News will remem-
Der that we called attention to the fact
five names was certified (as though
selected at a meeting of the Demo
cratic County Committe to the State
Board of Election Commissioners at
Frankfort, from which a Democratic
Election Commissioner for Bourbon
County was selected by the State
Board, and that all five Of the names
certified to the State Board
turned out to be for Dundon and
O'Brien. There are twenty of the
Democratic Commissioners and it
takes eleven to make a quorum and
IA or Is of the 20 have signed state
ment that no such meeting was ever
held. Still all five of the names for
Dundon and O'Brien went though,
there had been a meeting, resulting, Of
na,,rca IN q norficou Of nundon ond
O'Brien being named as Democratic
Election Commissioner. We also call
ed attention to the recent automobile
trip of Dundon and O'Brien to Frank
fort to prevent this pratisan selection
from being disturbed. The advantage
of having a partisan of theirs in the
Office of Democratic Election Commits
sioner of Bourbon County is obvious
when we remember that there are but
three members of the Board and that
the Republican Election Commissioner
was hostile to Mr.. Hinton and against
Mcmillan, so that a partisan Of Dun
don and O'Brien filled the Office of
Democratic Election Commissioner
would unite with the hostile Republi-
can Commissioner in selecting the Off
GERS of the coming election, those two
members of the Board of three con-
trolling.
And this is exactly what was done.
The Chairman of the Board last
Thursday inquired publicly of the
Democratic Commissioner of Election,
this partisan of Dundon and O'Brien,
whether he and the Republican
Election Commissioner had agreed to
stand together on the officers of cleo
ton for the various polls and this
Democratic Commissioner, a partisan
of Dundon and O'Brien, admitted pub
Gcly that they had. In fact the list
had already been made out by the
two in writing So, the scheme was
commenced last summer to get in a
partisan of Dundon and O'Brien to fill
the Office of Democratic Election Com
missioner of Bourbon County upon the
theory that he and the Republican
Election Commissioner, who was hos
tile to Hinton and Mcmillan, would
put their heads together and work to-
gether, has turned out just as we ex-
pected and as we predicted. This
Democratic Election Commissioner
and this hostile Republican Election
Commissioner have outvoted the Sher-
III and put in the list of officers al
ready agreed upon by them and re-
duced to writing before the meeting.
But will the voters of Bourbon
County permit politicians to thwart
the will of the people even though
they commenced so far ahead as in
this? There is no question in the
mind of any well informed Democrat
that amajority of the Democrats
of Bourbon County are in favor of a |
change in the Office of County Judge |
and every Democrat should see to it |
that the majority shall control this
time, and that there is fair deal CIV |
en- each candidate at the polls