The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-06-19
JOHNSON n. CAMDEN ACCEPTS |,
APPOINTMENT TO j. s. SENATE
rendered BY GOV. MCCREARY
New Member Has Long Been Identified With Develop
ment and Progress Of Kentucky and Asphes 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-
cellency to-day received the following let
ter Of acceptance from Senator Camden:
Versailles. KY, June 16, 1914.
His Excellency, Governor James B.
| McCreary, Frankfort, Ky.-My Dear Gov
ernor McCreary: With great qualification,
| and with the fullest appreciation of the
high honor bestowed upon me. I accept
your appointment as United States SEN
| ator.
| May 1 say that, however unworthy /
am to wear the mantle of the great states
men who have so often represented Ken
lucky in the United States Senate, 1 am
| sensible that in two qualifications I may
at least link my name with theirs-in love
for M. state and in the desire to serve
| her we'll.
Short as my term of office will be, I
| snail seek, as best I can, to discharge its
| duties with absolute fairness toward all
and with the high spirit and broad aims
which the large and vital questions now
| before the country demand, with the prin-
! ciples or the Democratic party as out
| lined in the Baltimore platform as my
| guide.
| your Excelency knows how deeply
| am and have been concerned in our agri-
cultural and educational welfare. and 1T
pleases me to think that in my appoint
mept you may have intended an especial
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the progress Of any state or nation.
Having decided to accept your appoint
ment. I feel a natural desire that your
| action should be Endorsed by the people.
! 1 have, therefore, decided to enter the
August primary and to ask the people to
set their seal Of approval upon my ap-
pointment by nominating and electing me
for the remainder Of the term. from No
vember until next March
with renewed expressions Of profound
thanks and appreciation. am. dear sir.
very sincerely yours. j. N. Camden"
Long Identified With Kentucky.
Senator johnson Newton Camden has
for 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. 1855. the son of
| 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 Herewith.
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. a 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 com
pletion of the line.
Marries Kentucky Belle.
II was while thus engaged that he came
81 to Kentucky and married in 1888. fair
daughter of the Blue Grass. Miss Susanna
Preston Hart, whose father was Mr.. Will
liam Preston Hart. the founder of the
famous Spring Hill Farm. near Versailles
In Woodford County.
| After a couple of years residence in
Parkersburg. W. Va, Mr.. and Mrs. Cam.
den decided TO make their home at Sprins
Hill Farm, and in 1890 they returned t.
this garden spot in the Blue Grass. which
now embraces 1000 acres. upon which
Senator Camden has. by producing the
best of tobacco, hemp wheat, corn, oats
clover, timothy. alfalfa and some of the
running horses. fine cattle and sheep
demonstrated that he is by instinct in
clination and choice a practical farme,
who is well versed in the science OF
farming and livestock breeder who ha.
. superior knowledge of blood lines and
mating
r Senator Camden Is member Of the
Kentucky Branch OF the Farmers Unior
: and il President Of the Farmers Unior
Mill, the only cooperative mill In thu
: state. He IL the pioneer alfalfa grower
in Kentucky. and has been long inter
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