Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-02-07
TO ANDREW JACKSON CORPORATION KIRK
One Time Nominee of the Republican Party for Appellate Judge
9TH District Aspirant for said Nomination in 1916


bout August l. 1916 when you were in the midst OF
heated campaign for the nomination for Appellate Judge
your opponents being Judge Elem D. Sampson Judge e.
W. Gourley and others you surely remember Judge Samp
SON. that YOU sent to the Licking Valley Courier rather
vouminous bunch of manuscript for publication in the In
terest of your candidacy You asked for special position
and your request was granted You besough the pub
Usher to stress certain parts of your articles and this cour-
tesy accorded you Black faced type and capitals were
used in setting that part of your copy to which you want
ell special attention directed Your articles all set
double column measure in order to be more conspicuous
and catch the passing ee In fact your shown
every courtesy and consideration which publisher could
extend to patron the editor of this paper having known
you and had dealings with you at an earlier date before
your reputation for honesty and square dealing had suffer-
ed so seriously because of the ravages of that peculiar
ncrocossus whose relentless hordes attack the soul of
IN and insduously though be, benumb his sense of
honor wreak destruction upon his character and leave of
his former manhood only vestgea pitiful parody, a.
gaunt reminder of what it once was but is no more.
Within reasonable time after the publication of your
articles mailed statement of the account to you at your
home address Paintsvle KY No answer was forth
coming Sometime thereafter mailed second state
ment and in response to this received letter from some
one signing his name "Ked," believe, making excuses
for the nonpayment of the bill and promising it would be
attended to little later on Months elapsed and still
there was nothing doing. Other statements were mail
3D. always to you, but line from you anyone
else did receive My forbearance exhausted and need
ing the money to meet my own obligations | mailed the
account to an attorney Of your city for collection The at
torney to whom sent the account not wishing to handle
it for personal reasons turned it to another who
brought an action in the Johnson Quarterly Court The
account verified and proven. There were no over
charges nor usry embraced therein but when came up
for trial. upon technical ground suppose, you de-
INJURED it out of court and took judgement against the
plaintiff for cost The first intmaton had of what dis
position been made of the case was when received copy
of the Judgment and taxation of the cost few days ago
Now, my dear Andy jack have sent the clerk Of your
Quarterly Court check in payment of the costs in the
ton. could not afford to be sitting here peengaway at
your Shiny cutcle if had MT done this unjust though it
was. The amount involved in this transaction small
You could have paid it if you hldso wed However can
lose it with cool a,e if lose must have not entire
ly given it up YETI my satisfaction being that when meet
you which perhaps will some day, can look you square
y in the eye and show you the contrast between man
who has played square and lost and man who has re-
pudiaed an honest debt taken advantage of echncal-
ity of the law and won.
Won, didI say? l use the term advsedly. What
have you gained my dear Andy Jack? You have avoided
the payment of few patry dollars which you owe as
justly you owe your existence to supreme creative
power You have traded the confidence of man who had
been your friend for his contempt You did this of your
own volton your own free will and accord You made
you choice voluntarily, and the latter you shall have as
truly as you had the former.
read great many of the articles concerning you pub
lished in the Paintsve Post during your last campaign
Thought at the time that perhaps they were inspired by
personal and political animus and were overdrawn am
now convinced that Lum Wheeler knew whereof he spoke
and was telling the naked truth. That the Wheeers,
through the Post kept you off of the Appellate bench there
can be no doubt and now that they be extended
vote of thanks Imagine what figure you would cut in
seat formerly occupied by some of Kentuckys usrous
uriss In that capacity you would rattle around like
birdshot in dshpan and your colleagues for any reas-
on should seek to discover you they would strain their
in vain
s. am sending marked copies of this paper to
you, the Painsve Post Judge Sampson and few Others
If you don't receive yours write and let me know