Licking Valley courier., 1917-05-24
LIBERTY MORGAN KENTUCKY, THURSDAY

IN, CD6 same picLtnCto q llooo vi
names marked Gone who are
not gone and have not been gone.
Of course some men charged
with taxes were gone; but |
noticed the names4of Noah Cox,
Cecil Davis. Leslie Fannin, Gill
ard Fugett, John l.. Fugett, j.
F. Fugett and will Rigsby.
Every one of these men are at
home and have been at home all
along, are good livers, honest
men and good taxpayers. They,
too, carry their tax receipts from
me when | was deputy sheriff.
| want Preacher Lykins and
Charley Henry to tell the people
how they got such a delinquent
list through. The law requires
those lists to be sworn to.
While l was deputy sheriff |
went to the houses Of the tax
payers and saw for myself and
made inquiry what property they
had. The law re-
qoires the sheriff. to levy on per-
sonal property for taxes, if there
is any, before levying upon and
advertising a taxpayers land for
sale. Many good honest men
and good taxpayers with plenty
of personal property don't have
to be ereminded of their land be-
ing advertised for sale the last
three years when they had neveg
seen the sheriff or a deputy,
though they had carried then
tax money in their pockets till
they had nearly worn 1ut, wait
ing for the sheriff or a deputy to
come arlui d. II MAY be the law
for a sheriff to sit around in his
Office aud require the people to
bring the money 10 them, hut
the people are not used to that
kind of way. They tfll me they
want the sheriff to visit them in
the old fashioned way, and there
are plenty of men who would
llikesto have the jdI- -sbas way,
South Stamper collected tax that
way when he was sheriff. So die
Burns Brown, Frank Kennaird,
Mit Pieratt and all the rest ct
them and their deputies. Ano
liIat is the way we propose to
collect the taxes the next time.
Now, in conclusion, | want to
say to my friends that four years
ago this coming summer | ran as
deputy under Preacher Lykins,
and Charley Henry was one OF
the men whe did all he could tC
get me on the tickeS with thC
preacher, as many people know,
, | made a hard fight for our tick
ct and spent my time and money
in the campaign. My house wa,
the stopping place for the preach
er and his boy and workers. Ny
wife got up at the hour of mid
night and cooked for his friends
and workers. | rode over tn,
territory with Lykins and t,
every bunch of men. big or little
that we met he said, Here i
my deputy" pointing to me, Il
l am elected" The preache
was elected and very promptl
turned me down. | appealed t
Charley Henry to make Lykin
do me right, for Charley ha
helped to get me on the ticke
and | thought he could max
Lykins keep his solemn promiS
to me. Did Charley do it? H
did not. He boldly stood up ar
argued to my face that | was n,
to have any deputy's place unle
| carried certain precincts, wht
, he knew good and well that ,
= such thing was ever mentione
. and | told him so. Instead
D doing what l asked him to
took my territory for himself al
q has posed as its deputy for Il
. mast three wears and a half.
Il Up to the time Lykins "
+ elected sheriff and Charley to,
Y unto himself my place the pc
It pie had never known him to
It any thing else than a staunch R
h publican; but after he got a tas
n of Democratic pie he began Il
e ting on like he was a Democr
n and is now candidate for t
e democratic nomination for sheri
ie To hades with such Democrat
n The good people, both Democra
n and Republican. have their ol