The Climax-Madisonian. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1914-1917, 1915-03-10
RICHMOND. KY. WEDNESDAY. MAR. TO- 1915

trict, and wesWonder if he is going to
use his office to stamp out the illegal
sale of liquor in this district. or will he
permit it to be sold in such an open man.
ner as il is now being distributed in Mad
ison county.
The report of the grand jury is signed
by Mr.. T. J. Curtis, who is said to be
a strong Shackelford man, and if these
statements were not true he would not
have so willingly placed his name to a
report that we believe will seriously af-
feet his friends race.
In this report we find that the county
roads of that county have been badly
neglected, and are in serious condition,
| which does not speak so we'll for the
county judge of that county again, and
if Judge Shackeiford cannot manage
his own county, how is he to stop the il
legal sale of liquor in three other coun-
ties and to handle the many propositions
that come to circuit judge?"
The members of the grand jury were
highly incensed at this editorial and vol
UNFAIRLY met at the courthouse last
week and adopted and signed state
ment which we also reproduce:
1--WE, the undersigned members of the
grand jury of Madison county, state:
We have read an article in the Win
chester Sun of Feb. 18th, 1915, entitled
illegal Sale of Liquor in Madison"
This article misquotes the report of the
grand jury. 1t wholly misrepresents the
purpose of the grand jury in that it at
tempts to convey the idea that the grand
jury in its report intended to or did re-
fleet on the integrity or efficiency of any
official or public officer of the county,
either police, county or circuit judge, or
any other person having a duty to en-
force the law. We resent the statement
that the condition as to the sale of liq
uor existing, is a disgrace to Madison
county or that such condition in Mad
ison county casts a reflection on the
whole State.
We reported many indictments for vi
olation of theliquor laws and we hope
that the present judge of the circuit
court will be as vigilant and active in
securing convictions as the judges of the
county and police courts.
We do not approve of the misuse, dis
tortion and Misrepresentation of our re-
port for the purpose SO plainly indicated
by this article, an0 we resent this or any
other effort to misuse this report of the
grand jury as campaign document to
attack any candidate fer the Office of cir
cult judge. We do not approve and we
do not believe any fair minded man will
approve of such methods.
We did not say that the public roads
had been badly neglected, but did say
that, owing to the bad weather and heavy
hauling, some of the roads were in bad
condition, and suggested that the fiscal
court use all available funds to repair
them, as they have always done hereto
| fore.
The plain purpose of this article is to
attack and reflect on the official conduct
and personal character of Judge Shack
elford, as he is the only person named.
| we uoSlEo 10 SIdI6 LldJ the attitude OF
Judge Shackelford toward violators of
the liquor laws has been grossly misrep-
resented, and he has been deliberately
placed in false position for the pur-
pose OF discrediting him among people
who do not know him as well as we do.
We know him to be vigilant fiscal
court officer and perfectly just and i'm
partial judge, whose official conduct was
never swayed by any influence except to
do equal justice to all persons, no mat
ter what their condition might be. We
regard him as one of our first citizens,
a man of the highest character and abil-
ity, and take pleasure in testifying to
the world that we are satisfied with
and take pride in the way he has con-
Quoted our fiscal affairs, presided over
our courts and conducted all the busi-
ness of his office.
We deny that there was or was in
tended to be in this grand jury report
anything which could or should affect
Judge Shackelford's race for circuit
judge, as stated in the article in the Sun