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BREATHITT OUNTY NEWS1

ITHE HARGIS VERDICTi M r

Has Not Changed theOpinion of The Herald

The Lexington Herald of lastFriday has the following to say oftho acquittal of Jim Hargis

James Ilargis has been acquittedin the Fayetto Circuit Court of thocharge of being involved in theconspiracy to assassinate JamesCockrill It was a Scott countyjury which acquitted him elevenof tho members being from thatcounty only ono from Fayattea special veniro having been sum ¬

moved from Scott county to trythis case It wag tried before aJudge who is entitled to allrespectas an upright honest judge andwho has onr full confidence as anable lawyer tho prosecution wasled by tho Commonwealths At ¬

tornoy who is without a superiorif ho has ah equalas a prose ¬

cuting attorney in Kentucky Thejury which was sworn to render u

verdict in accordance with tho lawand facts after hearing the testi-

mony¬

and listening to the argu-

ments rendered verdict ofacquittal Before tho verdict wo believedHargis guilty of conspiring tohave James Cockrill assassinatedThat verdict has not ourpersonal opinion We however ac ¬

cept tho verdict that the jury fromScott county rendered in tho Fay ¬

ctto Circuit Court us conclusiveas to public utterance as everycitizen who has tbntidcnce in thecourts and believes in trill by jurymust also accept

Tho Court of Appeals has ren ¬

dered a decision in tlio appeal takenby the Commonwealth from theorder of Judge Carnes transfer m

tho cases against those charged

with the murder of Dr Cox toElliott county We regret thatdecision it is unfortunate that theCourt of Appeals finds it is itsduty to sustain Judge Carnes JA BREATHITT CONVICT

Slashed by a Fellow In ¬

mate in the Pen

In a desperate hand to hand en ¬

counter between two convicts in

the shoe factory in the Frankfortpenitentiary last Friday afternoonJohn Hcnsloy convicted in theBrcathkt circuit court for murderwas cut to ribbons by D W rockmiller a onearmed bank robberfrom Mercer county Hcnsley

hit Lockrailler over the headwitha broom handle following a quar ¬

ref Lockmillcr immediately gotbusy with a knife used in trim-

ming leather and when he had

finished trimming on Hcnsley the

prison physician had to takeseventy stitches to close up his

wounds Hcnsoley has five cuts

on the head and body Ono cutnarrowly missed tho jugular vein

Go to WorkYoung man go to work there

is no time to idle now You must

carvo out your own way if it is

over successfully carved You

must seek your fortune throughindustry perseverance und plunk

Labor is honorable and tho ig I

noble are those who will networkGet you a homo FoiTbo a Held andplow it and plant it and gatheraround you the comfort of a home

And when you have trade a char ¬

acter for industry and thrift ask

some girl to share your home with

you Wo would say to everyyoung lady mark these men who

are lounging around attempting to

live by their wits or on the inter ¬

cst of their debts and when theyask you to share the lot of an aim

less lifo pass them on for you

canna afford to marry a man

without prosperity or business

habits unless you wish to sellyourself for n mess of pottageAgain we would reiterate youngman go to work while ten men

watch for chances one man makes

a chance while ton men wait forsomething to turn up one turnssomething up while ten men fail

jI ono succeeds and is called man of

luck the favorite of fortune Luckand fortune are the result of hone

est endeavor work and toilandif you would win go to work

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THUGS AINP BRIBERY

In Elections Receive aHaVd Jolt>

The decision in the Louisvillecontested elation cases handeddown last vveSk mention of whichwas male inllio News is just and-

righteoliswTile use of thugs andbriberyinel lions in Kentuckyhas reached a imit impossible tobe borne Not only does the de-

cision¬

alfegtttho Louisville andJefferson county ofliccholders butit extends toj every village andhamlet wkhinjho confines of theCommonwealth and reaches to themost obscure nook in the Statewhere elections are held In briefit means that the highest court ofthe State has planted itself as abulwark between the corruptionistandhenceforth

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shall bo fair that the votesshurTbo counted as cast and thatthere shall intimidation orforce at the polls Wo take thefollowing fromthe LexingtonLeader

The de isiontot tho Court ofAppeals in the Louisville electioncontest cases completely wipingout the present city and countyadministrations reversing the re-

cent¬

decision tf the Jeffersoncounty circuit court and declaringnull and void the malodorous coun-

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and city election of 1105 is anomen of better days for tim sup-

porters¬

of law andjorder in Ken-

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Heretofore owed by theapparent impregnability of theplundering mll 1c the lawabidlug citizens of IJetrerson ns ofevery other county in the Statehave refrained T in making legalcomplaintagaitheunutterableravishment oftaar rights by thepolitical thiIn1F ilJ ers

51Willpolies o thev rdi anytirtI 4n

The opi W iridfkcuwn byChancellor

+ Ier and Kirbywhile admiLiiT as into the evi ¬

dence prc3entcfUy the Fusioniststhat ballot boiCs were stuffedthat election bolllis were illegallymoved to poin I where votersthouI ¬

that Democrat election officersprevented any ection in thirteenprecincts that the beneficiaries oftho election were guilty of fraudandcorruption admitting all thistho worthy Chancellor denied thepetition upon the ground that theproof did not show that the Fusionticket would have been elected ifthere hind been no fraud in thoelectionopinionAppeals which court is comprisedof six Democats and one Repub ¬

lican In this decree there is notonly a triumph of justice that bidsus hope for if not tho political mphlennium at least a suppression ofopen and flagrant violation of theballot in future elections in thisState Our highest court has shownthat it can rise above politics andthis knowledge will jjivo thefriends of honest elections incalcu ¬

table encouragementThat this decision will have a

furreaching cilect upon tho elec ¬

tion thief throughout the Common ¬

wealth there can be no doubtHeretofore secure in his beliefthat the honest voter has no ap ¬

peal the ballotbox stuffer thebriber and the fenfro for purchasedregistration certificates will hesi ¬

tate long ere ho spends his moneyand put his fiber y in jeopardyfor an ollice which the courts maydeny him

Mrs C P Win1 LexingtonKv Says I gave my fowls Bour¬

bon Poultry Cure hen they weresick and it certain workedwon ¬

ders Sold and gun anteed by DayBros Co

Mrs Wm Mel nley wife ofthe late President died Sundayat her home in Can an Ohio

Goy Beckham In t Saturday ap ¬

pointed Finloy Eogg of WestLiberty as PCon Commissionerto succeed tAA Green re ¬

signed

BILL BRITTON

Taken to Sandy Hookfor Trial

Wm Jenkins of the LexingtonPolice Department left Lexingtonfor Sandy Hook Elliott countylast Saturday having in chargeBill Britton Britton recently exe ¬

cuted bond in the Fayctto circuitcourt for the murder of JamesCockrill and will execute Londfor 10000 in Elliott county forthe murder of Dr Cox He was

I accompanied to Sandy Hook byhis wife who has spent much ofher time in Lexington since thearrest of her husband The Brit ¬

ton party were met at Aloreheadby Jim Hargis and others fromBrcathitt county and the trip toSandy look was made by wagonSunday Britton was delivered tothe hailer of Elliott county Mon-

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morning and immediately exe-

cuted¬

bond with Alex Hargis andG W Scwcll as sureties

That Latest VerdictRush does the Lexington Ga-

zette¬

to the whitewash bucket toadminister a thick coating of thealbescent liquid to Jim HargisThe Gazette lays down this propo ¬

sition There is no Judge inKentucky who is abler or morehonest than Judge Parker Onthis point we refer the Gazette tothe Winchester SunSontinel anequally good authority on thelIon Watts Parker The SunSentinel by way of preface re¬

marksWeknew Watts Parker of

the Fuyetto circuit court when hewas a young man Wo werepleased to see him rise to the re ¬

sponsible position of circuit judgeItis a sad thing to lose faith inthose in whom you have confidence

JudgeParkerThaiudiciatattitudqorJudgaPtirkcr

Hargis and his gang but other-wise

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is set forth by the Winches-ter

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editor in these paragraphsIn the former trial of Jim

ITargis tho evidence appeared tobe conclusive that he was guiltybut under the instructions of thecourt he would have been clearedbut for the fact that two men onthe jury refused to follow the in-

structions¬

In the Britton casethe instructions were practicallythe same except that there werelive men that stood out for con ¬

viction

Last week Judge Parker dis ¬

missed indictments against twomen guilty of violations of theelection laws It was on a tech-nical

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point The indictment didnot recite that the election hudbeen rcgularJcnllcd

If the same instructions hadbeen given in the trial of CalebPowers that were given in thetrial of Hargis there could havebeen no conviction It may be allright to hang a Republican on lessevidence than that on which aDemocrat is cleared but somehowor other we cannot reconcile our ¬

selves to the justice of itThe Lexington Gazette hav-

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stated that the defense wasable that the leading lawyers attho Lexington bar were in the ser ¬

vice of the that thejury was composed of eleven Scottand one Fuyetto county man thatits verdict on tho first ballot wasfor the acquittal of Hargis ven-

tures¬

to ask After such a trialand such a verdict shall even themost partisan newspaper or indi ¬

vidual dare to charge that time yerdiet was rendered on account ofthe party affiliations of the de ¬

fendant 1

We meet the challenge fearless-

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Wo state most emphatically

that in the trial referred to theCommonwealth did not get jus ¬

tice Too much respect have wefor the Democratic party 03 awhole to say that Ilargis hasonco more escaped justice becauseof his party affiliations We dosay however that Ilargis got histransparent coating of whitewashon account of the strength of hisfaction in Democratic party coun ¬

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LightofCAMITOV ICY May 2907

EDITOR NEWS

L T Hovermale the politicalpot pie hunter of tho CamntonCourier staff last week let n blowoff from the region where hisbrains ought to be in an endeavorpartyis

Jobnnyat the Spot on the question of local option and that allthe laws now on the subject havebeen passed solely by the Demo-cratic

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party He had reference tothe County Unit Bill in particu-lar

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that was passed at thelast session of the General Assem-bly

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of Kentucky As I happenedto be on the ground as a memberof the Senate when the aforesaidlocaloption bill was introducedand being fought for enactmentinto law I know something abouthow the Democratic party playedto the four winds of all the peo ¬

pie saloonists and antisaloonistsin its handling qf the bill before itbecame a law in any shape formor fashion The record of theDemocratic members is not sorosy on the local option questionif the way of their voting on thequestion is any proof of the pud ¬

dingThereal sincere friends of local

option know that the originalCounty Unit Billns introducedby Senator Cammack is time onethat meant local option for a cer-

tainty is the one they sought tohave enacted into law They knowthat it got into the hands of thecommittee Democratic where itseemed to be sleeping the sweetsleep of death for weeks andweeks before the friends of localoption could get it to make n re ¬

port on the bill and givfl the memGcrsn c7mncToVoTe on ie Final-ly when Senator Jack Chinnworked a hocuspocus game onthe committee and deceived it thesaidcommittee was prevailed uponto give a report and the natureof the report was silent as towhether the bill should pass orInot pass A wonderful set oCIgreedy anxious eager Democratsto pass a local option lawnowIwasnt it Lonny The powerbehind the throne tho Beckhamboomers that had the committeeappointed knew full well thatthis committee was composed ofenemies to local option measuresIts chairman was a Beckham Dem ¬

ocratWhen the County Unit Bill WIlSI

voted on in the Senate every ¬

gle solitary Republican membervoted for it the vote of the Demo ¬

cratic members was about equallydivided Now is this not a tinerecord of Democratic unamity onthe local option question Lonny 1

In the Lower House as I now re ¬

member but one lone Republicanvoted against this bill and he didthat reluctantly

Yes the County Unit Dillnsoriginally introduced was thereal thing the anti saloonists want ¬

ed and tho Republicans of bothhouses almost to a nun were forit as introduced and would havevoted for it with a whoop but forthe persistent relentless formida-ble

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Democratic opposition that re ¬

suited in the bill being white ¬

washed honeycombed and smooth-ed

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up with amendments by Dem ¬

ocrats to suit ATX of tho greatcommon people If the Salma ¬

gundi slang slinger or any onedoubts this I respectfully referhim to Rev M B Adams ofFrankfort President of the AntiSaloon Leauge who knows thatthe Republicans were in line virt-ually unanimously for local op

tioqThereis too much bluster and

not enough sincerity being nowplayed by unscrupulous partisansin regard to the temperance ques ¬

tion The Democratic partythrough its henchmen and pennyliners is trying to claim all tho I

credit for tho praise duo for tho t

oPtbonthat it will get that it has already

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got but when it undertakes toclaim all credit and pose as thowhole hog of tho blessings re ¬

ceived and to be received it onlyshows itself to be a windy warb ¬

ling wobbling Ananias of the rottenest kind

The Campion Courier Salma ¬

gundi slouchslingcr of slanderand slime tries to dump the dia ¬

dem of local option of glory onthe pumpkin head of bulky brain¬

less bombastic Beckham as thopushhole and pump of thewhole business Well I hardlyknow what part he is entitled toto all that part that is bummybrandily beerly boozy and una ¬

dulterated and unrectified thestraight and strong stuff in andout of the bottledinbond partisanputrified pollutcness in the wire ¬

pulling of Vish washy waddiesto his wishvI wonder if the people remem-ber

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the priest and preacher Sun ¬

day saloon closing crusade put onfoot and fudged up to Beckhamlast summer and fall for solutionand how he played peaweeandnow isyell in regard to the mat ¬

ter Yes oh yes all rememberhow he stuck his saddle geartedears to the ground to hear thesound of the greatest number ofthe great common people onthe question of saloon on Sunday

wide open or hard closedandafter hearing the voice of lingerand his nominated hellbent houndsfor office finally decided by silenceand inaction that the gloriestand goodest thing to do for thedear people the Democratic partywas to bo as still as a mouse andmanless as a monkey in tho mu-tter

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In this good day of daintyDemocracy the saloons on thoLords day are dishing out overthe counters their vilest doses ofdrinks and dopes of Bourbon rumand ruffianism while the dirtydevil is playing high carnival inthe desecration and destruction ofmorality and manhood The ought ltobedutydetermined Democracyhiss been turned into a demoraliz ¬

ing dovilism happy homes arc be ¬

ing turned into heartless hellswhile Beckham and his bellyblis ¬

tered blue coats sit on the throneof power as mute and motionless

the dead carcass of CaesarismWith me I do not regard silencen virtue in anything Boiled

down to tho rockbottom truthboth time Democratic and Repub-lican

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parties have not tho manlycourage to take the right standonthe question of local option Thedirtiest blackest course that stainsthe excutchcon of our civilizationand threatens the overthrow of thepalladium of our liberties H th ohideous hellish demon of alcohol-

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and so fur as I am individullyconcerned whenever I11I1e achance to strickn the monster ablow by vote or voice I will gladlyand fearlessly do so regardless ofthe prattle of party

BENJAMIN SEWELL

J A Scott Avon Ky SaysBourbon Hog Cholera Remedycured some hogs for mo that I didnot think could possibly bo savedThese hogs were so nick with chol-era

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