Licking Valley courier., 1921-06-02

] authorized the press some months
ago, to announce my candidacy for
County Attorney. Having been en-
gagged as teacher in the Morgan
County High School, it has not been
my privilege to see many of the voters;
but / hope to be able to see AMI talk
to every voter in the county before the
election.
/ am asking your support upon my
own merits and not on the dement's
of my opponents.
was reared on n failn, left an or
phan boy at fourteen, worked my way
through high school ana college. !
am farmer, living on farm, also,
school teacher and lawyer, ana so ]
know the needs of the schools.
The right man in the right plac,
will do the right thing but a corrupt
man can not be trusted, even by hi
associates. Investigate and see II
am the right man. You can Offer
hear II said, ELECT a good man t,
Office and he will become corrupt.
Never was there more erroneous
statement uttered nor greater In
Justice done the honest man than to
utter such statements, for the corrupt
man in Office was corrupt before he got
there, but just did not have the
chance of showing his corruptness as
well.
One Of my own friends said to me,
while ! was making my former race
for this same Office, "You will have to
lay down your honesty and resort to
any means to get votes"
God forbid! From my father, In
herited my love for honest toll, truth
manly .and temperate living. an irwin
chile will power, a determination tC
stick to the job / had undertaken
That father has been dead many years
but / still cherish the memory OF
those noble traits In him.
That memory was incentive for mi
making the resolve never to toucl
liquor, never to swear, never to use to
bacco, never to commit adultry ant
never to gamble. by the help o
God / have kept those resolutions an,
: lived life conslstant with the faith
ful keeping OF them since my father
death, eighteen years ago. Again
that memory was the guiding sta
through the struggle which had t
pass and toll that was necessary 70
me to try to make my life usefu
one to myself, my country and my God
Many of you are aware that l wa
left penniless and therefore had NJ
parently no chance OF getting the edr
cation that much desired, but wit
that inyincihle win power inherite
from my father, | undertook the tas
with the determination to stick to III
job had undertaken. worked har
many times tolled until one on tw
o'clock ei night. ny these hard |,
bars ! 'rbfd and received Il hlp
school dIplopn from Hazel Green Ac
denny In 1910 and L. l., b. degr,
from the University of Kentucky
1910. These credentials may not |
''s-pluch In practical life. but, the to
ne in getting them ought to
hast bs Asme cvia e.cs-ct II -li-tf.c,
nOoeneklng, Y Certainly they shou
count for more than loafng and mo
ing around aImessly, with no purpo
IN life. II there was good purpos
not enough energy to carry II out.
|ne foycel TO work aud forced to
your win breed IN You tempe
hnce Ma self.control, diligence Al
s,lcnnlh Of viii. cheerfullness and ca
tent and a hundred virtues which h
Idle win never know,
Back 20 corrupt politics. They q
dominated by corrupt men. II G
r,nI mcn were placed In the sch,
rooms, hooks. etc., you would hear
howl hf the noonlo and rush 10 tn