. Kentucky politicians. Sketches of representative Corncrackers and other miscellany. gress of the United States,and the Hon. Phil. B. Thompson, Jr., who had represented it threeterms, and who is acknowledged to be one of the ablest lawyers inthe State. After an active canvass Governor McCreary received the nominationin primary election l)y thirty-two hundred and sixty-nine majority overthe Hon. Milton J. Durham, and three thousand majority over theHon. Phil B. Thompson, Jr. He also defeated James Sebastian, theRepublican nominee, at the election in November, 1884, by a majorityof twenty-one h
. Kentucky politicians. Sketches of representative Corncrackers and other miscellany. gress of the United States,and the Hon. Phil. B. Thompson, Jr., who had represented it threeterms, and who is acknowledged to be one of the ablest lawyers inthe State. After an active canvass Governor McCreary received the nominationin primary election l)y thirty-two hundred and sixty-nine majority overthe Hon. Milton J. Durham, and three thousand majority over theHon. Phil B. Thompson, Jr. He also defeated James Sebastian, theRepublican nominee, at the election in November, 1884, by a majorityof twenty-one hundred and forty-six, the largest Democratic majorityever received in the district. Governor McCreary is a gentleman of accomplishment and possesses wealth, and, what is better than gold, noble principlesand a good heart. He is not only a successful lawyer and a popularpolitician, but he is a farmer who produces both corn and cotton, andkeeps his fences in repair politically and in point of fact, having afarm in Madison county and a plantation in the State of HON. THOMAS E. MOSS. On the 14th day of March, 1S40, the town of Greensburg, and thecounty of Green, in the State of Kentucky, although at the timeunconscious of the added leaf in their wreath of laurel, certainly hadthe recording angel to smile upon their peaceful boundaries when hetook note in the Doomsday Book of the arrival of another soul destinedto add luster to a world his presence adorned, and so the name stoodupon the register of Time and Eternity, Thomas E. Moss. Howwell-known he is to-day, socially and politically, all men in and out ofthe State who take pride and interest in representative Kentuckianscan testify. Mr. Moss is the son of T. S. T. and Judith C. father removed to Kentucky at an early day from the State ofNorth Carolina. His mother was a Miss Bullock, of Mercer county,Ky. The ancestors of both father and mother were of Virginia Bullocks relations are menti
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