Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1913-09-26
4 Yi1ginian Speaks Of
Mr., MdT5t And His Work

Mr.. Robt. L. Pennington Of
Jonesvil'e, Lee county, Virginia,
is prominent attorney, bank and
hotel owner and a man who was
instrumental in having the first
seven miles of turnpike built in
county of whi,h there are many
and more building. Mr.. Penning
ton is All original good roads man.
Jonesvllle, Virginia,
Sept. %, 1918.
Editor Mt Vernon Signal,
Mt Vernon, Ky.
Dear Sir:
am informed that your fellow
townsman. Mr. James Mares, il a
candidate for Coun'y Court Clerk .
OF your COUNT. II NAV seem .
strange that man living so far
away as | do in the State Of Vir-
ginia, would be interested IL who /
would be the County Clerk Of /.
your most excellent COnnt, but,
however strange it may appear.
am, and hope il ill not be out of
place for me To say word Ill be
half of Mr. MaIet.
While | am a Eirginian at the
same time | am half kentuckian
because my mother was from the
great State of Kentu ky. | am
interested in Kentucky for another
reason, she is d daughter of Vlr-
ginia. [ am interested in her be-
cause she has been great State
and has played prominent part
IN the making of the great Nation
of which we all are 50 proud. |
have known Mr. Maret THU his
efforts as a public spirited citizen.
a man whose efforts has reached
out beyond the confines of his
own County and whose Influence
has even reached beyond the
Dor lerS of his own state in the
monumental task at which he has
ee working in securing a nation
al highway between thcturn-pikes
of Kentucky and Cumberland Gap
tennessee, and Virginia. TIL is
work on the part of Mr.. Maret
has been a work of labor and love,
and to which [ understand he has
given his time and attention with,
out compensation. We cannot al
WAYS work q good horse and not
feed it. If we DO, we will soon
find that his strength is gone and
life is extinct. Men like Mr..
Maret VINO has the courage and
who has an interest IN his county
2 and his community to give of his
! time toward its upbuilding, is the
? character of man that should be
: hOnored with those compensatory
D Offices which places him in a
greater and better position to do
: service for his county. He gets q
j living from the Office and gives il
back TO the people in public ser
: vice. Mr.. Maret has been a man
of great force as, already. he has
: been able to interest Governors
Senators, Congressman Clubs,
: Cham bers of Commerce, aDG
3 Boards of Trade all over the
: country in the great and laudi;le
; undertaking of building this great
\ highway. which fact is positive
, proof OF his ability and of hls
energy to properly fill the Office
which he seeks. Besides, as
stated above. placing him in the
. position which he asks the people,
gives to him su,tenance and en-.
ables him to put more of his time,
energy, and aoility into this great
j public service work. When the
: people have an opportunity to re
/ ward a public spirited servant
] like Mr.. Maret Las been, they are
} not doing their dnty, in my judg
) ment, when they turn aside from
him merely for the reason that he
does not happen to be OF their
particular political brand of poll
: tics believe that we should re
ward men for what they do and
not merely for what they profess.
1 know nothing of the comparative
merit of Mr. ret'sopponet. bu,
| do know that he would have to
be a very >elf-sacriticirg and
public spirited man to deserve
more merit than does Mr.. Maret.
Thanking you tor space in your
paper which gives me an oppor-
tunity to say a word in behalf of
) one so deserving. / am.
Yours very truly,
ROBT L. PENNINGTON.