The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1921-02-18
PEARCE PATTON ANNOUNCES
REELECTION


All announcement of noIitical
nature that will not prove a sur
prise is carried in another part of
this paper, under the head of can
nouncements," in which are group
ed the names of candidates for vari-
GUS public Offices within the gift of
the people But what we started to
say, like Luke McLuke, is
Pearce Patton, known to almost
every man, woman and child, white
and colored, in the county of Bour-
bon, after a long and faithful SER.
vice to his people as County Clerk,
in which Office he has DISTINGUISHED
himself, makes public announcement
of the fact that he will seek the
Office again.
Officers have come and gone, 1eav-
ing a more or less favorable record
behind them, yet their names have
not been brought up in after years
as has Pearce Paton's. Coming into
the Office as boy while his father.
the late Ed Patton, was County
Clerk, Mr.. Patton applied himself as
deputy in the conduct Of the office
and literally grew Up in it. He soon
familiarized himself with all the es.
sential details of management and
routine work, and proved an indis-
pensible assistant. AS the son of his
father, who was accounted one OF
best County Clerks who ever filled
the office, little Bally Patton" soon
became known to the people as one
of the county's most efficient public
servants. After the death of his
father Bourbon county elevated the
son to the Office of County Clerk.
AS a token of their appreciation CT
his thoroughness, his ability and his
fitness for the place. Mr.. Patton
has continued in that capacity ever
since, and in that time has brought
the details Of the Office to remark
able degree of perfection. Not the
slightest detail that tended to i'm
provement and dispatch in the con-
duct of his official duties was over
looked by Mr.. Patton, and the rec
ords and books have been so sys-
tematized that there is not the
slightest trouble in getting infor-
mation necessary to the public.
These facts, matters of common
''Bally" Paton's record Of many
years stands him IN good stead in
his candidacy. The County Clerk 5
Office with Pearce Patton left out
would seem like the play OF Hamlet
with the melancholy Dane absent.
Aside from Mr.. Paton's efficiency
and fitness for the position ne has
other and equally as strong qualities
to recommend him. AS a Democrat
he stands the test at one hundred
per cent pure and no traces OF
alloy. He has been a prominent
figure in all the movements tending
toward the advancement Of the ma
terial interests of the city and
and bore a prominent part
in all pre-war activities, and dur
ing the progress of the war. AS a
member of the Bourbon County
Draft Board he brought the work OF
that important body to a high state
of efficiency, and it became recog'
nizcd as the most thoroughly-equip-
ped Of any in the State. In this ca
pacity Mr.. Patton donated his SER
vices to the common cause and
would not accept cent in remun-
Grafton. And nearly everyone
knows the work required in that po
sition was of a most arduous and
'exacting nature.
Mr.. Patton comes to the people OF
the county with clean record and
clean hands, and asks for an en-
dorsement of his candidacy. That
he deserves we'll at the hands OF
his party and If the whole people
goes without saying. His friends
are legion, and his popularity with
them is such that it would be al
most inconceivable of anyone else
occupying the Office of County Clerk.
He does not regard himself as in.
vincible, and does not affect the
conceit that no one else could fill the
office acceptably. But his friends
are of the opinion that the best in
tertsts of the county would be con.
served by retaining him and to that
end their energies will be directed
in the campaign to come.