Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1914-02-20
OF all the Gail,
this Beats
it All.
Read every line.


purposes; the forces that would al
low the powerful to pIuuder the
weak and to strip the helpless ot
the little which they possess, were
working hand in glove IN IN eff {
before the legislative Committee, I
Frankfort, to Impeach Judge Samp.
son upon various charges, which
they preferred and which they at.
tempted to- sustain bv evideuvc 81
questionable nature.
The criminals; the law breakers. --
wanted To impeach Judge sam - a.
b cause he, as Judge, is attenp in.
10 enforce the law;
The corporations want him i'm.
pCaChed because he rciuseS To bow t.
their will and to- instruct lures to
lind and return verdictS tor them.
and thus turn out of SQUIRT the weak
untortunates whose manned form
are crying out against the wrcckles>
ness and headlessursS Of these cor
porations in their mad rush ton
wealth and power.
These two elements OF socict,
have been and are now SCI against,
not only Judge Sampson, but all
courts and all law which interfere
with their methods or their set
course OF procedure There is never
a case tried IN the court against a
corporation in which 4 motion is
not made tor per, mpturN instruction.
A request made bv the attorney Tor
the Corporation that the court per-
cniptOrlly direct the jury TO lind and
return verdict in favor OF the cor
pOratIon, and TINS without regard
10 the evidence offered bv the plain
trlt or to the INJURY winch he has
sustained. II the court overrules
TINS motion the corporation excerpts
The proceedings III a criminal case
are very much the same; the same
motion is made and when Overruled.
exceptions tak.u Because Judge
sampson has not acceded 10 the de.
nands of these rIch corporations,
they, through their agents have at.
TEN ted TO d We him r, moved rom
office, and 10 do thus they have con
trIbuted harry sums of money, and
thl> money was used IN TN, aItruI I
mt,e at Frankfort l. va. NltI-
90 avail { nu~y the Commute.
hearlug the co uplaunt was m ,d, Il,
vi honorable. upright decent and ca
pable men, who were not willing to
allow their nigh pthce to be used for
the corrupt purpose
In 1911, when Judge Sampson was
a candidate, theSs Ne,t same corpor-
atoms and the otfiy opp seq h.
e.ecuuu and collected a large corrup
uou und tor the purpose OF defeat
ing him TINS Mas used IN the cleo
ton against hrm But, notwIth-
standing all tins ne was elected by
"A tremendous malpuN After ha,
my CJntrlbu eel tins uur eul YIN
Ialed, and these corruptIOnIstS hay
my discovered that certain persons
living in the village OF Pine Knot,
McCrearv County, we're augr.c..rI /
Judge sampson because he did not /
support that village hr the Om /
seat of Mclrrary County. made .
tools of these little fellows and
charged Judge SAM son with the use
Ot money 10 secure his election o.
course, having cOnJubuJc, only a..
lew thousand dollars themselves To
such a fund, they st,oi agha>U
when the Pine X not mcu declared
that thew had seen a fcw hundred
dollars on the other side These
men with pure motives could not
stand for any such conduct They
at once set about To have the Judge
ousted from office bc,auS II was
SAID that he had used money to
overcome and offset that used by
his enemies and IN order to prefer
these charges they sent a man to
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pass, to institute thy same Didn't
II smell good,'. IT looks so iaIr. 50
clean, so inviting when a bunch o
fellows like these gcr together tor IA,
purpose OF removing an oihcer ne
,ausc nc does not SUIT them m his
opinions and decisions. What drd
they care about whether money had
been used M elections Or whether
railroad pass had been grantee;
These charges were preferred IN the
hope that some mlschet ( uld be
dOnr; either that tine luuge could be
removed. or # not that, he could he
coerced into mod Nrng ms Instruc
uOns ami qualifying ms opposition
% the high naudcdnrss OF these elr-
mente; or II not one OF the Other at
these, then that he could he drsre. =
tied in the eyes of his fellow me o.
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