Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1914-06-19
JOHNS ON N. CAMDEN ACCEPTS
APPOINTMENT TO u. 5. Senate
rendered BY GOV. kiCCREARY
New Member Has Long Been Identified With Develop
mint and Progress Of Kentucky and Aspires To
Primary Endorsement For the Short Term.

Frankfort. Ky. June 16.-In response to
the formal notification sent by Governor
McCreary to Johnson N. Camden. of
Versailles. of the appointment of the lat
ter to the United States Senate to fill the
vacancy created by the death of the late
Senator William o. Bradley, His Ex-
ter of acceptance from Senator Camden:
Versa lies. Ky, June l6. 1914.
HIS EXcellency, Governor James
McCreary, Frankfort, ky.-My Dear Gov
ernOr McCreary: With great qualification
and with the fullest appreciation of the
high honor bestowed upon me. | acc, p.
your appointment as United States Sen
ator
May | say that. however unworthy !
am TO wear the mantle of the gr at stltes-
men who have so often presented Ken
tuCfv i'm the United States Senate. | am
sensi lie that in two qualification | may
al least Ink my name with theirs-in love
for state and in the desie to serve
her we'll
short as nv term Of office will he. I
shall seek. as best I can. to discharge its
duties with absolute fairness toward all
Hnd with the high spirit and broad aims
which the large and vital questions now
hefore the country demand. W tn the prin-
ciples of the Democratic party as out
lined in the Baltimore platform as my
guide
Your Fv"o''orcv knows how deenlv !
= m and have hoor concerned in our agri-
rnltr~al a. educational welfare and II
p'eases me tn think that in my appoint
ma hoV ipta Cd al
RECOGNITION OF those the corner stones o.
tho n~n"~aeS oF onv state or nation.
"Hav'n" 6oo'dod 10 accent vow annoint-
newt. feel 4 natural desire that vow
action should he inSo-sAd by the peop'e
! have rhnrnfore decided 10 enter the
an"IIet URINARY ard 10 ask the neonIe 10
"et their seal Of annrovaI ,,non NV ap-
noin'ne0t " roo1I"nt'ng and eIpctirg me
"" the rerra 'rdar 81 tbn term, from No
ven'ho' until noxt March
with rnnnwr' ovnresSions Of nrcfound
thanks and annrociatiOn 7 an dear SIR
very sincerely yours ] y Camden"
Long identified With Kentucky.
Senator Johnson Newton Camden has
Cor nearly a quarter Of century been
Identified with the AGRICULTURAL. educa-
tional. Industrial and political life of Ken
lucky. and is to-day one OF the states
most potent men OF affairs.
Senator Camden was born at Parkers-
burg. W. Va. January 5. 1865 the son Of
Johnson Newton and Anne CThompson)
Camden. On the paternal side he is OF
English and on the maternal side Of
Scotch-Irish and Dutch ancestry.
HIS father was United States Senator
from West Virginia from 1881 to 1887 and
from 1898 to 1895 and was a powerful
factor in the political life and industrial
development of West Virginia. He had
large holdings in coal and oil properties.
and was identified with many enterprises
in connection there with.
Upon his graduation from Phillips An
dover Academy and the Virginia Military
Institute the subject of this sketch at
tended Columbia University and after
ward entered upon his active career as
Treasurer and Paymaster of the Ohio
River Railroad. line which had been
built by his father. He resigned this po-
sition to become President and Treasurer
of the construction company engaged IN
building the Monongahela River Railroad
from Fairmont to Clarksburg. w Va.
and continued so occupied until the CON-
pletion oil the ne.