Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1921-07-08
Judge Bethurum
Speaks To Large Crowd AT Montl
cello. Predicted He Will Carry
Wayne County By Large
Majority.

"a B,,humum. l.. l. Niece
Iudye WA Ca,ron spoke TO one
of Ire l,tyos, crowds ever as
semhled in the Monticello cour'
hOnse.
K.nnedys mud,lnging ana
IN, high esteem which the PEG
nj os WAYNE county have Tor
Judge Be,hurum are said 10 DC
responsible for the enormous
crowd. The ciuzens oil way ne
county resent Kennedy's unfair
ard uniu,, abuse of their Circul'
ledge. They know their Circuit
Iudpo as well as does Kennedy
and they know that he is the
hest Circuit Judge IN The STATE
Of Kentucky. lie is rehn.u
Christian gentleman, just anu
i'm ,artial. and they will not s'anu
for the character Of campaign
Kennedy is putting up.
Kennedy spoke in tie iore
noon aud opened ali his ''aiS
of wrath and abuse He made
all Kinds of false charges, ma y
-, hs audience arising III ais
INST land .ea, ing the court house
while he was speaking IL was
estimated by the c't'z.ns Who
aocked TO hear Judge Bethurum
a,,e, Kenned. : ,peech that that
speech had cost Kennedy ~
leas, FIVE hundred votes,
Judge Bethurtm answered al
the charges aud proved them UP
IN me false aud unbecoming To I"
man who aspires t" the hgh
Office of Circuit, Judge He heio
the vast audience ol more tn n
three hundred voters spellp"un'
nor did they leave at the clo'e d
Re,hurum's speech, but s'al'"
unul after Niece urt Gatron tad
spoken. The crowd THAT h'"'d
Be,hurum was much larger th"r
the one which was Up l" 10. J
Kennedy in the forenoon a. q
which PROVES ihtt the Poop" o.
Wayne county are behind Betau-
rum and backing him III greater
numbers than ever before. Ihefe
is nov but little doubt 'hit he
thurrm will carry Wa ne county,
by nice ma orlty
The people OF Wayne county LAY
tina, Kennedy forfeited all claim
ON their support whea he bol'ed
the Republican ticket in l9l7;
they say that man who ooula
fop over into the Democratic
ranks in 1917 when the Demo-
cratic party had violated It's
sacred pledge to keep US out OF
war, and had plunged our boys
into the world conflict, unpre
par "a. without sufficient bate.
ships, food or ammunition to pro-
tect them, when heart strings
were being broken and boys torn
from their homes by the selective
daft, all through the mismanas c.
ment of the Democratic party,
the man who could do that then
has no claim upon the voters OF
the grea. Republican party,
A large delegation came up
from Clinton county 10 hear
Judge Bethurum There is no
longer any doubt that Judge
Bethurum will carry Clinton
county by at least 500 votes All
of the leaders in that count, who
made the fight for Kennedy he
fore are now for Bethurum. His
old friends are standing unanlm-
ously behind him. His friends
claim that he will carry every
precinct in Clinton county.
Supt. Niece, who is managing
Judge Bethurum's campaign
said that he considered Judge
Belhurnm's speaking at Mon'l
cello one of the greatest success
es of the campaign. 1t proved
beyond a doubt that Judge Be-
thurum is pursuing the right
course in making a clean and
digniiied campaign, and that
Kennel, S mudslinging is dis
gushing to the voters and is
huitfui only to Kennedy himself
Somerset Commonwealth
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