The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-10-16

( JILL CmDEh 20, 1911, YIN he T.
Triton OF WILLIAM MYALI
AND OTHERS, TO TAKE THE
SENSE OF THE LEGAL VOTERS
OF BOURBON COUNTY ON THE
QUESTION WHETHER OR NOT
SPIRITUOUS, VINOUS OR MALT
LIQUORS SHALL BE SOLD, BAR
TERED OR LOANED THEREIN
THIS LAW AND PROHIBITION
TO APPLY TO DRUGGISTS
ALSO.
AMENDATORY AND SUPPLEMENT.
tai GROUNDS OF CONTEST.
! Now come T. F. Brannon, James
| Porter, Robert Spencer, Oscar Ped.
dicord, Ed. Slattery, John Johnson,
James Cummins, Claude Ratliff, G. N.
Peddicord, James Connolly, Harry
Saloshin, Malachi Flanagan, Elmer
Nichols, Frank Sullivan and James
Curtis and amend their grounds of
contest filed herein on October 3rd,
1914, and especially to the first para
graph thereof, and for amendment say
that they are and each of them is a
citizen and resident of the United
States of America; that they and each
of them is engaged in the business of
selling spirituous, vinous and malt
liquors by retail, in Paris, Bourbon
County, Kentucky, by license, and are
authorized to conduct said business in
said territory by virtue 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 September %, 1914, and
now in full force and effect
And they come aid amend the
twelfth ground Of contest heretofore
filed, and for Amendment thereto say
that in Millersburg Precinct No. 1,
Richard (Fick) WATSON and ]. H. Tay-
lor were appointed by the Board of
Election Commissioners of Bourbon
County, Kentucky, to serve as clerk
and Judge respectively, of said pre-
cinct, and that both WATSON and Tay-
lor were selected from the list of
names furnished by those who favored
the sale, barter and loan of spirituous,
vinous and malt liquors; that both
said WATSON and Tayior were late and
were not at the polling place at six
o'clock a. m. on the morning said cleo
ton was held, and that without wait
ing thirty minutes, as the Statute in
such cases requires, the other Off
GERS who were opposed to the sale,
barter or loan of spirituOus, vinous or
malt liquors in Bourbon County,
or the other persons there assembled
who oppose the sale, barter or
loan of spirituous, vinous or malt
liquors in Bourbon County, or
said officers and other persons who
were opposed to the sale, barter or
loan of SpirituOus, vinOuS or malt
liquors, acting jointly and in concert,
selected two officers to take the places
Of said WATSON and Taylor, from
among those who opposed the. sale,
barter and loan of spirituous, vinOus
or malt liquors in Bourbon County,
and Notwithstanding both said WATSON
and Taylor appeared within a short
time after six o'clock a. m, on said
and within thirty minutes af
ter six o'clock a. m, they were not al
lowed to take their places as officers
of said election for sometime after
they came, and until more than forty
votes had been cast in said precinct,
and for these reasons the contestants
say that the election held in Millers-
burg Precinct No. 1, on September %,
1914, upon said proposition, was lille
gal and void, and of no effect and was
not free and equal.
AS a further amendment to said
grounds they say that in Millersburg
Precinct No. 2, on said date the cleo !
ton commissioners of Bourbon COun |
ty, had appointed J. H. Stewart and |
Henry Bowling sheriff and Judge re- /
spectively, from the list Of names fur
nished by those opposed to said propo-
sition, and had appointed John B. vi
mont, judge, and V. l.. Barton, clerk,
from a list furnished by those favor
ing said proposition, and that on the |
Of the election and without
waiting thirty minutes after the open !
ing OF the polls at six o'clock, the per-
sons opposing the sale, barter or loan !
of spirituous, vinous or malt liquors, |
selected enc o. II. Collier, who was |
opposed to said proposition to act as
clerk at said election in said precinct, |
and unlawfully, and
and unlawfully compelled |
V. L. Barton, who had been appointed !
clerk to act as judge.
The contestants further say that at
said precinct those favoring said prop
osition had selected a qualified person
to act as challenger at said election
and had issued to him the proper Gre
1entials as such, aud that the officers
Of election in said precinct wrongfully
and unlawfully refused admission to
the election booth to said challenger,
and they state that because of the
matters and things herein set out that
The election held in Millersburg Pre-
cinct No. 2, was not free and equal
and was therefore null and void.
For further amendment to the said
ground of contest they say that in
Clintonville Precinct No. 2, the officers
Of election selected from list of
hose favoring the sale, barter and
oan of spirituous, vinous and malt
liquors, were not at the polls on the
of said election at six o'clock
4. M, and that without waiting until
half past six a. m.,' as the law re-
Iuires, that the two officers selected
.ro,,, q lief of thOco OppOcpd IN thp