The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-03-20
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methods Of the speaker"
And further along Mr.. Miller said
that Mr.. Stanley had made statements
that were absolutely untrue.
These opinions, which I have quot
ed from the record, give a good idea
Of the bad reputation of Mr.. Stanley
among his colleagues in congress for
veracity and reliability Of statement.
No wonder that, with reputation like
that in the lower house, he is so anx-
ious to leave it, and now seeks to be
| transferred to the senate, where he Is
not so well known. Probably he
thinks, too, that in the staid and dig
| nified senate, of proverbial courtesy,
| he would be given more latitude in his
lurid and irresponsible speeches, and
not be called down every time he
made one of his customary and chron-
&c deyiations from the truth.
Gives Sensational interview.
Again. last April, following his cele-
brated fight from the Webb bill, he
gave out sensational interview
which was published with conspicuous
headlines on the front page of Louis
vile newspaper, wantonly attacking
Hon. Claude Thomas of Paris, a state
senator, and criticising me because l
had endorsed Senator Thomas for ap-
pointment under the administration at
Washington. That gentleman has
been one of the worthiest and truest
of men in the service of the state, and
the attack upon him was miserable,
| unjust and foolish. But Senator Thorn
as replied to it in fashion so crush
ing and complete, that Mr.. Stanley
could never answer it. He showed
conclusively that Stanley had deliber-
ately misrepresented the facts.
l am unwilling to pursue the enum-
Grafton of many similar instances,
| and should not refer to them at all,
except to show what manner Of man
1t is that is running out from Wash
ington every week and neglecting his
| work there to make these false and
vicious charges against me. l shall
make it plain, before / get through
with him, what influences are back
of him and inspiring him to such a
| character of campaign.
He has charged that, during my SER
| vices as governor, / showed such par.
TALLY to the railroads, and particu-
larly to the Louisville & Nashville
Railroad company, it employed me as
| an attorney, at high salary, as a re-
ward for those alleged services, after
| practice of law. He himself knows
that to be untrue. In all of his long
| and exhaustive search of my record,
he found only three measures, passed
almost unanimously by the general
assembly while l was governor, upon
which to base this absurd charge.
shall not undertake to discuss the IL
logical and false conclusions which he
| endeavorS to draw as to the results
and purposes of those laws. No intel
ligent man after examining them, can
! agree with him in what he says about
them.
Laws Not Questioned.
Isn't it strange that no one, either
before or since the passage of those
laws, many years ago, has ever found
reason to criticise them, or seek to
have them repealed? Two of those
measures were passed in the session
of 1912. II years ago, and the other
| one two years later in the session of
1904. One Of these passed in 1902
was Senate Bill lie. 1t passed in the
senate by a vote of SO to O; and in
the house 81 to 1. The other, passed
at the same session, was House Bill
169. 1t passed the senate 81 to 1, and
passed the house 70 to Z. The third.
| passed in the session of 1904, was
Senate Bill 250. 1t passed the senate
20 to 0, and passed the house 76 to /.
No one believes that if these bills
were such nefarious measures the leg
islators, almost unanimously, would
have passed them. No man in all Ken
lucky ever found cause to, or did,
complain of them until Mr.. Stanley,
| more than 10 years after they were
enacted, became candidate for the
| senate against me, and, having moth
ing else with which to assail my rec
ord, seizes upon them as the means
of his senseless and insincere attack.
Six regular sessions of the general as
sembly have been held since the first
two Of them were passed.
Why has not this Watchful guar
| dian Of the peoples rights come be-
fore one or more of those sessions,
told them of the iniquities in those
laws, and urged their repeal or mod
ification? Why has he not been be-
fore the session this past winter. and
! urged it, or had some member do it?
Simply because he knows there is no
truth in what he says about them,
and hopes only to deceive the ignor-
ant and unthinking.
4 knew nothing of those bills, and
had nothing to do with them until
they had passed the general assem-
bly, and came before me as governor
for approval or disapproEal. They had
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