The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-10-09

d IEIilION OF VIM. MYALL AN
n OTHERS. TO TAKE THE SENS
OF THE LEGAL VOTERS O
h BOURBON COUNTY ON TIL
, QUESTION WHETHER OR NO
d SPIRlTUOUS, VINOUS OR NAL
n LIQUORS SHALL BE SOLD. BAF
TERED OR LOANED THEREIN
n THIS LAW AND PROHIBITION
e ~ APPLY TO DRUGGIST,
/, I A MANDATORY AND SUPPLEMENT
e TAI GROUNDS FOR CONTEST.
5 NOW come T. F. Brannon. Jama,
Porter, Robert Spencer, Oscar Ped
d1cord, Ed. Slattery, John johnson
James Cummins, Claude Ratliff. q NJ
Peddicord, James Connolly. Harr,
Saloshln, Malachi Flanagan. Elme,
Nichols, Frank Sullivan and LANES
J curtis and amend their grounds NJ
contest filed herein on October 3rd
1914, and especially the first nara
, graph thereof, and for amendment
say that they are and each of them is
! clt1zen and resident of the limited
states OF America; that they and
each OF them is engaged in the bust.
ness OF selling spirituous, vinous
ana malt liquors by retail, in Paris,
BOURBON county, Kentucky, by
incense, and are authorized to conduct
said business in said territory by yir-
tue OF license granted to each of them
by the United States of America
commonwealth of Kentucky and the
City of Paris; and that the license of
them and each of them were on Sen
TENDER 2Sth, 1914, and now are in
full force and effect.
z. They come and amend the 18th
ground OF contest heretofore filed. and
Tor amendment thereto they say that
| they are citizens and residents of the
United States of America and the
J commonwealth of Kentucky, of the
County of Bourbon, and of the CITY of
Paris; and they say that they are
, engaged in the business of retailing
spirituous, vinOus and malt liquors in
the City of Paris, Bourbon County.
Kentucky, under license duly grant
ed to them by the United States of
America, the State of Kentucky, and
the City of Paris, and that said
licenses were in fult force and effect
on September 28th, 1914, and are still
in full force and effect; and they say
that said licenses will not expire until
after sixty days from the date of he
entry of the certificate of the Can
vassing Board of Bourbon County in
the Order Book of the County Court.
unless the entry thereof is suspended.
They say that said Act is illegal
and unconstitutional and void, be-
cause it deprives these contestants of !
their property without due process of |
law, and abridges the privileges
and immunities of these contest |
ants as citidens of the United |
States, and denies to these |
contestants, who are persons within
the jurisdiction of the United States,
and of the Commonwealth of Ken
lucky, the equal protection Of the |
laws in violation of said Section 1 of |
Article IA of the Amendments to the
Constitution of the United States, and |
of sections 1, and of the Constitu-
tiOn of the Commonwealth of Ken
lucky.
8. They further say, and as the
10Th ground of contest, that hereto
fore, to-wit: On the - day of
April, 1907, at an election duly order
ed and held in the City of Paris,
Bourbon County, Kentucky, the said
City Of Paris took advantage of the
Statutes in such cases made and pro-
vided, and by reason of said election
segregated itself and constituted
itself unit upon said proposition;
and at said election a majority of the
legal votes cast in said territory was
cast in favor of the sale, barter or
loan of spirituous, vinous and malt
liquors, and that afterwards, to-wit:
On September 26, 1914, at an cleo
ton held in the City of Paris, to take
the sense of the legal voters on said
of whether SpirituouS,
vinOus or malt liquors should be sold,
bartered or loaned in said City, a ma
jOrity of the legal votes cast was in
favor of the sale of liquor within
said City; and the contestants say
that the said City of Paris, by rea-
son of the matters hereinbefore set
out is and was a separate unit, and
under the Statutes made and provid-
ed in such cases it is and was en-
titled to vote separately from the
County of Bourbon on the sale, bar
ter or loan of spirituous, vinous or
malt liquors, and to determine for
itself such question independently of
said County; and that said City of
Paris has so voted and has voted
and decided in favor of such sale;
and that by reason of the matters
herein set out, the election held in
he County of Bourbon on the 2Sth
lay of September, 1914, is null, void
and Nf NO pff0ct aC far the CITY Of
Paris in concerned
T. F. BRANNON,
JAMES PORTER,
ROBERT SPENCER,
OSCAR PEDDICORD,
ED. SLATTERY,
JOHN JOHNSON,
CLAUDE RATLIFF, /!
JAMES CUMMINS,
C. N. PEDDICORD,
JAMES CONNOLLY,
HARRY SALOSHIN,
MALACHI FLANAGAN,
ELMER NICHOLS,