Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-08-01
CHENAULT HANDSIT
TO SW0PE HARD
July 81, 1919.
Mr.. King Swore,
Danville, Ky.
Dear SIR:

Oui StdlClllSiil tildl l pledQ
every exemption to avoid mill
tary service is absolutely untrue.
You made that statement either
deliberately and maliciously,
moving it to be untrue, or with
out any effort on your part to
verify the correctness ,of your
statement. You were in Rich
mond. all day on Monday, the
day on which you published that
false statement, and during all
that time you were within a ston-
es throw of every member of the
Local Board for Madison county.
A sense Of. fairness and comon
decency shouid haye prompted
you to inquire of that board and
verify your Yindictive charges
against me before publishing
same as fact, as that Board alone
knows the facts relative to my
induction into the army.
If you had made inquiry of
that Board, as you should have
done, you would have found that
i was only not sent into the SER
vice by the District Board, but
that on the contrary the ruling
of the District Board in advanc-
ing End and 3rd class men to the
lst class reverned in my case
(thru no complaint or effort on
my part), that | declined to ac-
cept that ruling and requested
Local Board to advance my name
on the list that | might go at the
first opportunity. That request
was complied with, | did go, and
| went into fighting branch of
the service. These facts you
can verify by inquiry of the
Local Board here. There are
many of the boys here now,.whe-
were in the service in the same
organization with me of whom
you should make inquiry before
you make some reckless state
ment as to what kind of soldier
| made. | will admit the fact,
before you can sneeringly refer to
it, that it did occasionally fall my
lot to put aside my rifle and take
up the shovel, but it was all in
the game and l am in no wise
ashamed of the fact.
Frankly | am at a loss to un-
derstand why you have seen fit to
put my army service in issue. |
am not your opponent or a candi-
date for anything, and l fail to
see why my.record should be of
interest to the voters in the race
between Judge Hardin and your
self. On the other hand you are
asking for votes on the ground
that you were in the army
don't think it but fair that the
voters should be apprised of what
your service consisted, and where
it was performed?
| did not state in my letter
that | knew that you you were
in the Quartermasters Depart
ment. | didn't know then and |
don't know now what branch Of
the service you were in. | have
your statement that you were in
the infantry, but you failed to
state the name or number of
your organization, or the camp
in, which you were located.
Against that statement | have a
letter from a near relative of
yours and who resides near you,
who states positively that you
were in the Qdartermasters De-
partment. The relatives men
toned is lady, whose high
standing and character haye been
abundantly confirmed l do not
publish her name because she is
relative of yours, but will
show you her letters, or show
them to any friend of yours who
will come to my office to see
them.
You are now loudly proclaim
ing yourself to be the friend of
the soldiers. Let us see if that is
true. On Monday, while you were
here in Richmond in Major Stone
w. Norman's office, you saw him
filling out a bonus claim for SOL
der. You asked him what he
chargedd for that service, an
when he told >you that he made
no charge, you stated "Why man,
you're crazy to do that for moth
ing. | made over eight or nine
hundred dollars for filling those
out for soldiers-charge them S.
apiece. / didn't have to do a
thing myself. just hired stenog-
rapher and she did all the work. 7"
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