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The Public Ledger
Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky
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Prominent Kentucky Republicans are pushing United States District Attorney Sawyer A. Smith for the Republican nomination for governor, highlighted by his energetic prosecution of liquor law violators in cities like Newport, Covington, Frankfort, and Richmond.
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Republicans Boost District Attorney For Republican Nomination for Governor of the State.
Prominent Republicans in the state have started an effort to have Sawyer A. Smith, United States district attorney for the eastern district of Kentucky, become a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor, it became known here Tuesday.
Much attention has been drawn toward Mr. Smith during the few months he has been district attorney by reason of his energetic prosecution of alleged liquor law violators haled into federal court. The suggestion that he be asked to become a candidate for governor is said to have been made first by citizens of Newport, who had an opportunity to observe the district attorney's work in the recent "clean up" campaign in that city.
The Covington term of court, in which the Newport cases were tried, was followed closely by a term at Frankfort during which five alleged notorious whisky law violators were convicted, three of them drawing penitentiary sentences. The conviction last week at Richmond of seven men on charges of conspiring to remove whisky illegally from bonded warehouses was due largely to the vigorous prosecution of the district attorney, according to prohibition officers.
Mr. Smith is a native of Knox county and had resided in Barbourville practically all his life. He was an assistant district attorney during the Taft administration and later served a term in the Kentucky legislature.
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Prominent Republicans in the state have started an effort to have Sawyer A. Smith, United States district attorney for the eastern district of Kentucky, become a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor, it became known here Tuesday. Much attention has been drawn toward Mr. Smith during the few months he has been district attorney by reason of his energetic prosecution of alleged liquor law violators haled into federal court. The suggestion that he be asked to become a candidate for governor is said to have been made first by citizens of Newport, who had an opportunity to observe the district attorney's work in the recent "clean up" campaign in that city. The Covington term of court, in which the Newport cases were tried, was followed closely by a term at Frankfort during which five alleged notorious whisky law violators were convicted, three of them drawing penitentiary sentences. The conviction last week at Richmond of seven men on charges of conspiring to remove whisky illegally from bonded warehouses was due largely to the vigorous prosecution of the district attorney, according to prohibition officers. Mr. Smith is a native of Knox county and had resided in Barbourville practically all his life. He was an assistant district attorney during the Taft administration and later served a term in the Kentucky legislature.