Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-07-22

in his favor. Would g farmer
discharge a good farm hand who
has labored on his farm for years
and knows all about his stock, his
fields, his crops and needs, just
because some other fellow comes
along and says he wants the job
a while? Well, hardly! An
officer bears the same relation to
the State that the farm laborer
bears to the farmer. Each is a
servent chosen, or supposed to be
chosen for his fitness for the job;
and what makes for fitness more
than experience?
We contend that the former
faithful and efficient services OF
John NJ. Waugh, are the loudest
arguments for his reelection.
We know him. We know he is
honest, faithful, highly efficient,
and that he has had ripe expert
encesin the Office he is seeking.
Why listen to the, man who, like
the farm hand, seeks to succeed to
another's position for the sole
reason that the other man is we'll
qualified and experienced in the
business? oh" they say, our
boys will never have a chance for
an office" Well, if your boy
seeks an Office on your platform,
he oughtn't have it. Educate
him and qualify him and then the
people will call him to official
, service for his merits.
The sensible people Of this
} district are not going to do any
r such thing as our friends from
Jeptha and Eel suggest. Johr
S M. Waugh has made an officia
= who has graced the office of Com
d monwealth's attorney. His grea
e abilities have attracted wide at
i tention in the State. The law
It breaking element are as afraiC
: Of him as they woulC
A be Of a lion, so to speak. TIL
g writer's from Eel and Jeptha VIII
d have written so loudly of his let
n ting whiskey sellers go free jus
is make people smile. When he be
re came our public prosecutor Their
is were no less than a dozen whis
1T key men in the district who open
d Iy vended whiskey under tn
~ "five-gallon" excuse and KEEP
IN this country in terror. Wher
I'd are those men now? Are the
lie still at their old job? They ar
1t not; They have quit it-ever
lie one of them. Their stills an
their whiskey and their ill-go'
- ten money went to pay fines I
m the State, and most of them al
n now good citizens. Now, yo
Is writers know that is true.
ok boot-leggers are in your con
k munities, that is your magi.
N. trate's business, your COZ
ry stables or your sheriff's bushes
al your neighbours business-yol
is own business! Hunt them u
he go before the magistrate and g,
no a writ and have them arrestC
an and tried. Go to the graz
NV Juries and indict them, and | W
he vouch for Waugh's prosecutir
nj them to the Jail house. The pc
.es pie all know this is true, az
in those writer's know it too.
lal Then those same writer's NAL
or a loud noise about what Waugh
g opponent will do-will do, nil
ms youl How do you know what
er WILL do? The people kno
It's what Waugh HAS done, and the
or have a reason for saying what
n will do because of what he h;
ID done in the past. Give q reasC
C. for the faith that is in you! I'll
n, man you are booming is pract
n, cally stranger to you; so no
a. do you know so we'll what he wi
y! do?
'e Never trade off a noble hors
GU while crossing a dangerous rive
W We are in a fight now, maxim
~ our district the cleanest and fire,
IN est from crime of any in IL
w. State. Our progress is great; W
7S' are already attracting attentic
:" from surrounding districts f,
10 our freedom from crime. L,
,SS US not even think of tradir
he while breasting the waves ira,
III ing a true and tried servant wi
has done so much for OF
OF country and its morality f,
,h- another who has no better excu