Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-10-28
GILBERT SCORES
SWOPE'S TACTICS
Reads Affidavit Refuting False
and Anonymous Circular
Sent Over District

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Ralph Gilbert, democratic candidate
for Congress in this district, in a
speech here Saturday before a large
crowd, charged Congressman King
Swope with having FLOODED" the dis
trict witha false and anonymous cir
cular, stating that Judge Gilbert had
charged U. j. Thomas, of Shelby
county, $75 for affidavits in connec-
ton with his QUESTIONABLE.
Judge Gilbert the read the affidavit,
sworn to by Thomas this week, in
which Thomas makes oath that Judge
Gilbert had nothing to do with his
QUESTIONABLE, and that the service
for which he paid Gilbert a fee was
board for a reclassiication, for which
all attorneys charged. Judge Gil
bert declares that Swope's charge
was ''the usual action of the discred-
tied political candidate who is unable
to stand on his own record or the re-
| cord of his party"
He declared that Congressman
Swope "by Dragging on his var re
! cord and INTENTIONAL leaving his au-
dierces under the belief that he saw
service in France even to describing
the battles, has so Disguised the sol
diers of the district who know the
facts" that 35 of the veteran of An
derson county, without any sugges-
ton from Judge Gilbert, prepared and
published a statement denouncing
Swope's method of campaigning and
declaring they would vote against
him.
Judge Gilbert in stating his posi-
ton in regard to a bonus for the sol
diers of the world war said he was in
favor of the four-fold bonus plan adj
vocated by Gov. Cox, and endorsed
by the democratic platform. Miss
Iva Roberts, of Danville, and J.
Sherman Porter, of Lexington, also
spoke.
Miss Roberts went into the provis-
ions of the League of Nations at
length, showing how it would prevent
war, establish a permanent court Of
international justice, provide for .
| reduction of ornaments, and that ali
its members will not resort to war
Miss Roberts clearly showed how
false and baseless were the charge of
/ the republicans that the League
would involve the United States If
war, and read from a statement by
eX-President Taft to show that Mr.
Taft had said that, chad he been ir
! the Senate. he would have voted for
the League" She told of the en-
| forcement of the League Of Nations
| by the American Bar Association.
Mr.. Porter, who has been covering
Kentucky as the field representative
of ]. Campbell Cantrill, of the organ
! ization department of the Democratic
National Committee, brought mes
sage of good cheer to the big crowd.
He sale he had been in five of the
| Congressional districts in Kentucky
including the Eighth, and that he had
not found in all his travels a single
| democrat who would not support Coz
and Roosevelt, but that he had founC
republicans who would not vote Their
own ticket, and in some cases he haC
| been told by republicans that they
would vote for Senator Beckham
though they would vote their own ne
thional ticket, because Beckham had
''stood for the things that were right
in the Senate"
Mr.. Porter told how the republican
| administration was unable, apparent
ly, to find "any republican in Ken
lucky worthy to be warden o, the
penitentiary at Frankfort"
Imagine" said Mr.. Porter, sTTy-
ing the honor system among convicts
which is in effect in the northern pris-
ons, on the malicious, depraved negro
prisoners at Frankfort Is it any
wonder that a teacher in Pine Noun
tain school should be outraged ans
brutally murdered near a camp where
some of these northern ideas of honor
among prisoners are being put into
practice by man who has no knowl-
| edge of the criminal negro of the
South. Imagine a Kentuckian trust
ing one of these negro convicts, free
and unguarded along a lonely road
which white woman would have &c
travel without protection"
| Mr.. Porter denounced the partici-
patton of republican circuit judges in
partisan politics, declared that Judge
| Kerr, of Lexington, had been one of
the glitter, narrow and partisan crit
| les of the President" and expressed
the opinion that the democrats of
Fayette county would "vote to take
at least one circuit judge out of poll
tics at the very earliest opportunity"