Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1915-07-23


began his address The packed standing
apremum hundreds people get the
court room and therefore denied the speaker
When he crowd went Wild least
FIVE minutes be he could proceed speech When
quiet restored he delivered speeches heard
I'm Mt Vernon With bis characteristic eoqnence drew al
picture of his present
what those present already knew: That he raised farm
IN this county, and by his eXeron he worked
his way from the farm Office Circuit Judge He said
ne had been sober and stood for all
te and that as Judge of the put aca APP
plcaton his temperance IDEAS
fewer liquor dealers Judicial District than ever before
This the audience knew Following Judge Be
thuum the applause
discussed the improved miou in his district E said when
he assumed the duties of the ud5ep that all the the
district were bnrdened with many murder and that
dions had so improved in practically
no violation OF the law the district very
cases on the docket He discussed
plainly that Kennedy this Old coored man and
would have done it, and would
$4,000 to soaoo for $50 IS it honesty
the Circuit Court and Appeals.
henneay In TINS one case proved him an unsuitable
person to serve as Judge Of district like this He said that
an who that money placed in the
responsible position Circuit Judge.
Judge Bethurum spoke for thirty minutes and
the people OF hockcasIe County graphic history and
description Of the who opposing Circuit Judge
MS speech was well received thr0ug and mastery
prese tation o he issues
There has never beer opposition scarcely Judge Behurum
IN this county and The same which closed Saturday
LIST IN such 6z OF glory and outpourng Republicans
OF this county the be no opposition of
any consequence in this county as an officer;
MS slotess Character bis uprghtness citizen
gehrr with his well known Loyalty Republican principles and
Republican nominees appeal strongly his neigh
bor home, s,ronees, reasons for his here
and why they sup ortn him SO unanimously and with snc
unwaverng loyalty.
AS Jupge Behuum finished his speech Judge NJ
Jarvis candidate for the Republican Common
wealth AoneV ~s uced and spo"e He
scored his for sngng campaign methods and
proved to the people that Fq resided
I'm Somerset Tor five and mad argued
He
That F1FPn had been hoog years that if he had
taken salary had been paid him for services
poorly performed and had WASTED high living that
ne could be Occupying palace He pointed out the number
o Offices Flppin had held and the amount of pnc MONEY thai
had been pd him. He also Flppin
holding family and that Fpm educated salary
fad tppns father OF County Urea uries
de pointed out that tlppn town Thompkins
me- 'ne COUNTY seat OF Monroe County by who
educated and had educate him. and that as
10Y he was given every unity bur-
Ha Ills business and prof. ssonaI life failure the
other hand the Judge claimed born and raised on
-W creek in Clinton County, and his p.ens honest
possessed little of the world Soods; given no ad
vantage at ALL and by risen from obscurv
to that OF Circuit Judge and CONFERENCE.-The Attorney of this
District
ole prosecutions been flied dismissed tried in Rock
asCe County He sad the jury Rockcae county ad
indicted the Adams Express Company of cases for
"quor nom foreign states and delivering persons
n this County that had dismissed on authority Of an onnon
OF the Court of Appeals of Kentucky; tbs Louii Nash
e lroad had also been indicted ina number against
them failing block switch frogs and hot the roof - tho
case uleo showed that
the frog tue Statute Company block the switch
og put not broad enough include the that on final
ai e lower Court gave peremptory iurv to
hnd ior the ComPany that he Commonwe ,lbs ATTORNEY
aPpeed from the ruling of the lower the Court Of An
pea the higher sustained court and the oof
the all the
lof the Court of Appeals dismissed He ca;5
attention to the Spoonamore SO number He showed
that Spoonamore had been broke m and hos
ever since been absent from this unheard Of and
now refugee that his called trial. that four Judge
ents OF Sloo each and 40 days against him and
the rest filed He stated that Kennedy Fppn were vno
the people of this district that and the Crcn
nad done wrong In dsmsng the cases. although
Appeals had held that NOV
q N r. R. Co. had violated roforrod -
Instances in this where had to be
asked the investigate and thev would
it find that the charge of filing dmng to manv
prosecutions made by Kennedy Fppn without
and is deceptive is merely the
g In view of Judge Jarvis satisfactory explanation for
In this county, the given him or
cases in other counties of the district accepted NV t ~
being both right and legal He said that Fppn and Krod
d knew why these dismissed that thew uaro
to tell but intended to concealed from The
The Judges speech