The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1913-07-11
A PLAIN STATEMENT OF FACTS.

Mr. Editor:
Upon what grounds can Judge
Dundon or any of his friends with any
sort of reason base his claim for fur
ther help from the public? Few men
have the advantage of a thorough ed
ucation and a college education.
Judge Dundon received through the
benefit of the Garth Fund finished
education. This thing in itself was a
start in life and a fortune in itself
Few fathers are able to give their sons
a thorough education-a college educa-
ton. And few of those who who ap-
ply for the Garth Fund are fortunate
enough to get the benefit of it, be-
cause there are many applicants, and
few can be favored with it. Not only
through the Garth Fund has Judge
Dundon received more than the ordi-
nary boy gets from his own father and
family, but he was elected County At
torney of Bourbon county for four
years, making eight years of service as
County Attorney enjoying the emoIu-
ments of that office and binging him
whatever employment as attorney such
Ga position would command in a COM
munity. Then he was elected County
Judge, and at the end of his term of
four years he was endorsed by re-elec-
ton. This makes sixteen years of con-
tinuous office-holding, with all the
emoluments and incidentals to the po-
sition, and four or five years of sup
port and public help while getting the
benefit of the Garth Fund This totals
twenty years or more of his start in
life. When we remember there are
o. Low
al and just as capable of filling the
Office, does it not appear to any un-
biased person that Judge Dundon has
already had more than his share?
Most of us have to get along without
any of these things. Few young Dem
ocrats have any help at all. Surely
this one has had by comparison all the
help due him.
There is another important feature
that the voters should not overlook.
The position of County Attorney and
County Judge brings to lawyer fill
ing those Offices lot of outside bust
ness, which gradually increases as he
continues in Office, and leads to en-
ployment just because of holding the
position of County Attorney and Coun-
~ Judge. In this way the Office brings
him professional Employment outside o
the emoluments of the Office Judge
Dundon has had sixteen years of this
kind of indirect profit and emoluments
of his office, and during this time he
has built up his practice. All he gets
outside of the position of his Office is
SO much added to his income. This IN
direct benefit of his position is as inn
portant as the position itself, and GER
tainly he has been favored when we
consider the voters of Bourbon have
left him in Office sixteen years building
up his private practice by reason of
the vantage ground Of being in these
Offices.
Is it not about time that he was let
ting go the Offices and continuing the
practice which the voters have enabled
him to thus build up? The temptation
of such position is to attend to the
private practice at odd intervals and
let the Office go until the private bust
ness is all dispatched The pay for
pay for the Office is a certainty, and he
knows that he can collect for that,
whereas, prompt performance of his
professional engagements means more
pay and more business on the outside.
So, the voter will see that a long stay