Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-07-31
EDITOR COURIER,
West Liberty, KY.
Dear Sir:

les have found their way into
print / will impose on you and
the readers of the Courier one
time more. | would not be so
persistent in my efforts but
feel that this a matter in which
everybody in this Senatorial
district ought to be Interested in
what l am trying tp show the
people. | am no akin to Charley
Arnett, neither are my people
related to him or his people so
far as | know. | have known
MFR. Arnett reasonably well for
several years, | knew him as a
school teacher in Morgan county
and later as a merchant and pro-
moter, in all Of which he was
successful and was never accus-
ed of double dealinga But it is
not of Arnett Lwantto speak in
this article SO much 4 Mr.. Hogg.
We are all acquaiAted with
Charley Arnett on ithe liquor
question. We know he stands
for the enforcement Of the anti
whiskey laws and that he will
always be found allied with the
temperance people if he is elect
ed to the State Senate. We also
know Mr.. Hogg's position on the
liquor question. We know that
he was elected on a county unit
platform four years ago, and
what did he do? He had no
sooner got off the train in Frank
fort than he began tocaucus and
consort with the menwho repre-
sented the whisky interests and
he was rarely ever out Of hailing
distance Of some member of the
whisky trust while he was there.
What did he do for the people
Of the mountains the people of
his own district who elected him?
Nothing! Absolutels nothing!
A mountain constituent couldn't
get him loose from the whisky
lobbyists long enougfso have a
friendly conversation with him,
let alone to talk about pending
Legislation. He says he tried to
pass a bill raising exemptions
from 81, ,750.00 to $2,750.00, in
the interest Of the poor man, he
says. Bosh! A worse thing
couldn't possibly be done for the
business men Of moderate means.
1t would mean that a few un-
principled, dishonest men could
hide behind their increased ex-
emptions and put their creditors
to the wall in short order, unless
they (the creditors) were worth
as much money as Mr.. Hogg,
and it is currently reported that
he counts his wealth by the hun
dreds Of thousands. But yetit is
rumored persistently that the
whiskey trust is furnishing the
money to try to defeat Charley
Arnett. If this be true, and
Morgan county men are using
money furnished by a corrupt
lobby composed Of brewers, dis
tillers and wholesale whiskey
dealers to defeata a Morgan coun-
ty man for office it is a blot on
the fair name of our county that
cannot be removed in a hundred
years. | would like to believe
that this state of affairs does not
exist but the evidence is all
all against me. can't disbelieve
my own eyes. It's a bad day
for Morgan county when men
who have been the beneficiarieS
of the democratic voters of the
county and who now hold posi-.
tions under the state administra,
ton, for which there is no earth,
ly excuse for their existence
except as a salve Tor disgrunt-
led Office seekers, and who are
now applicants for fat fedora
jobs say it is a bad day fol
our people when men like thest
take money furnished by tn,
whiskey trust and use it to tr!
to defeat a man who has alwayt
been their friend. The bases
sin that any man was ever guilt.
Of is ingratitude. The bibl
speaks of the sin against tn
Holy Ghost. It's nothing NOR
nor less than ingratitude, If in
gratitude is not an unpardonabl
sin such a thing as an uppardor
able sin does not exist, and | al