Mountain advocate., 1921-05-13

the Knox county bar sustaining MS
instructions.
(All this was more law than Joe
ever knew existed.)
He Jumped on Joe's record of COM
promises, incompetency and trading
OF indictments for votes
Joe was evidently hacked when
he came to take his twenty minutes
in reply for he didn't consume all of
it. Evidently he hadn't expected so
much of a hail storm to break loose
or didn't know It was loaded.
He denied knowing anything con-
cerning the Marsh Mahan letter,
apologized for, compromising so
many cases and blamed the trial
juries of the Court because he had
secured so few convictions. He prom
ised. however, that before hte cam
paign is over he would pull the cur
tain back and show up Roses re-
cord. At which the crowd just smil-
ed It seemed a good time to be-
| gin to pull the curtain aside right
then.
When Joe had quit-without fin
ishing g-he took a seat in one of the
jury chairs right in front of Rose,
who had five minutes to reply.
But Joe couldn't stand the gaff
/ Before Rose had used one minute of
his five, Joe hurridly got up and left
with Rose begging him to stay and
the crowd laughing.
Good judges of such things de-
clarcd after it was over that they
, had never i'm all their lives seen such
total wreck made of a man i'm
( twenty minutes as Rose made of Joe
and If anybody had any doubt how
/ Whitley County will vote in the Cir
cult Judges race they lost that very
doubt right there and then. Whit
ley is overwhelmingly for Rose
J. Fred Catron, a candidate for
Commonwealth's Attorney, made a
strong impression by his forceful,
/ diEnifed denunciation of lawlessness
and his pledge to enforce the law
against all violators of it without
fear or favor.
( He scored a strong point when he
7 declared that if he were convinced
that a man were innocent he would
not force him to pay out money by
Il compromise, but would dismiss the
/ Indictment. Also that if he believ-
/ ed he We're guilty he would prose-
cute him to conviction if it were
| in his power and refuse to compro-
mise with him.
Just at this time, when our people
are waking m to the evils of com
/ promising with criminals and when
they are demanding that lawlessness
shall he curbed, this courageous and
manly declaration made 'ltron
many friends.
j. c. Bird also announced as a
candidate for Commonwealth At
torney. His speech was along the
lines our people are accustomed to
expect from Crit. The burden of It
was the claim that he had made Il
good record as County Attorney and
an invitation to investigate the same
which made the crowd grin.
u was noticeable that he did not
invite anybody to investigate his pol
itical record or his private life. And
that made some of the crowd grin,
too.
But il was when he chokingly and
with much difficulty expressed him
self as glad that the women are now
voters chat the crowd grinned the
broadeSt. In fact a suppressed snig-
ger ran thru the crowd-and some
even winked at each other when he
finally got that out.
Bird was evidently feeling hacked
for some reason; for he was not his
usual wise, superior and self salts
fed self.
Maybe il was because he also had
felt the impression Catron's honest,
clean life, clean and honest looks,
manly and straightforward speech,
had made on the crowd
Maybe il was because he realized
that the good women of this District
are going to determine who the Com
monwealth's Attorney will be and
felt that he cannot speak their Ian
guage.
Or maybe it was because his re-
ception was so cold in this his home
town and home County. For cold it
certainly was.
If anybody except Jim Buck Nc
Keehan had any enthusiasm for Crit
concealed on his person, he kept IL
concealed. And Jim Bucks enthu-
siasm was to be expected. of course