Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1915-04-09

al Cduulud'CS IOI tue Circuit JuuS6
ship, EACH OF THEM BEING
h PERFECTLY HONEST ABOUr
1T? II Bethurum promised Ken
nedy that he would give way t
+ Kennedy this time and allow hin
to be the candidate for judge, why
4 does Kennedy use this languag,
: in his withdrs wal card FIVE We; RS
ago, "If | am alive, and still fee
q inclined to take part in politics
1T MAY BE THAT l SHALL
THEN ASK MY PARTY TO
MAKE ME- ITS NOMINEE
FOR COMMONWEALTH'S AT
TORNEY'?
Judge Bethurum, as the above
language Of Kennedy shows,
never at any time promised to
not make the race to succeed him
self. On the contrary he
positively stated to Kennedy that
he would stand for reelection
and this was the general under
standing amongst his friends at
the time.
Moral: Politicians had better
remember their records before
taking new position, because the
record may turn up. as in this
case. to shame them. Adv
Somerset Herald.
THE RECORD IS THE BEST
EVIDENCE.
Mr.. Kennedy, in his announce
ment, makes use of the following
language:
II will make the same kind of
Circuit Judge that l made as
County Judge of Wayne county.
Under my administration we put
boot leggers and blind tigers out
or business for the first time in
the history of the county, and
crime of all kinds was reduced to
the minimum. The public are
invited to investigate and find out
for themselves whether or not this
is true"
Nothing could be more errone-
Gus and misleading than theabove
language, copied from the an
nouncement card of this candidate
for the high Office of Circuit
Judge. He invited the public to
investigate, and an investigation
OF the court records reveal the
true facts TO be as follows: Ken
nedy went into office the first
Monday in January 1906 At The
following Septem Der term of the
Circuit Court, in Wayne county |
the Grand Jury returned four
teen indictments against liquor
people as follows six against John |
Hill, three against Winfield TrOx-
ell, two against Marion Foster,
and one each against the following
named men: Peter King, Allen
Roysden, and Russ Dick. At the
January term, 1909, of the Wayne
Circuit Court the last year of |
Kennedy's term as County Judge |
the Grand Jury of Wayne county |
returned indictments against the |
liquor people as follows: six |
against Joe Sweet five against
Frank Winchester, two against
Wolford Hill. seven against Toll
bert Dolan &c, six against James
Brock, three anainst John Dalton
two against Bud Winchester. two
against Winfield Troxell, two
against Richard Thompson and
two against Hullet Philips, three
against Joe Dobbs, and one each
againts Elmer Davenport and
Jim Cater, making in all forty
five indictments against liquor
people at that term of the court.
The first term of Circuit Court
after Kennedy went out of Office,
the Grand jury returned fifteen
indictm ents against liquor people
the second term 80 and the third
term 25. and against almost as
many people. Judge Walker, |
successor in office, has disposed
of as mrny liquor cases as Ken
Inedy disposed of, yet, if you
should believe Kennedy's asser-
tons, Walker would have had |
nothing to do at all in the prose
cution of liquor cases, nor would
the dockets of the Circuit Court
have been crowded with such |
cases. This is not all, Jerome
Owens sold liquor within one
mile of Monticello most all of /
Kannad Us farm of Office and