The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-04-04
AYERS STANLEY
BROKE PLEDGES
Col. A. II. SOmmers Attacks Record OF
Administration In Lengthy Edi-
tOriaI In ElizabethOwn
News.

Elizabethtown, Ky, April 4.-Col
A. II. Sommers, in a lengthy editoria
in his Elizabethtown News last Fri
day, under the caption, Some of the
Untitled Pledges of Governor Stan.
Hey" says:
Governor Owsley Stanley, with
characteristic modesty, has issued q
lengthy card, giving extravagant
praise of what he claims has been &C.
complished for the state at Frankfort
this winter. lie truthful!y observes
that number of the Democratic plat
form pledges have been carried out
and for this the Legislature is en-
titled to the fullest credit. But how
about some of Mr.. Stanley's pledges
to the people. made while he was a
candidate in 1915? What has he done
to redeem them?"
From every stump in Kentucky,
Owsley Stanley declared himself to
be the arch enemy and inveterate foe
of invisible government but the sor-
did story of the Pike county bill is
sufficient answer to this, and the
liquor lobby, powerfully intrenched,
was most persistent and pernicious in
its efforts to control and corrupt leg
islation. Its minions were at Frank
fort opposing every measure looking
to the present laws effective.
Instead of being driven out of
Frankfort, as Candidate Stanley prom
Used, invisible government thrived
this year as never before"
Hasn't Kept Faith.
Col Sommers says the Governor
did not abolish useless offices as he
promised in his very earnest and art
full efforts to win votes for himself
upon the economy issue, but says:
ave have the instance of Eli Brown,
the Governors political confidante,
uIdNlhS gown d year do aNlOi hcS lOi
the State Rating Board, a position
which had been vacant for some time
prior to his appointment and the du-
ties of which Attorney General Logan
declared since January /, could be
performed by his Oogan's) office
force, without the appointment Of an
attorney. Is Governor Owsley Stan
ley keeping faith with regard to use
less Offices?
"'Turn on the light was one OF
SANKEY'S pet phrases to catch votes
in 1915" but he appointed two assist
ant attorneys general, at a combined
salary of $475 per month TO make
these Investigations, and the first OBJ
ject of their attack was Mrs. Cora
Wilson Stewart, president of the Ken
lucky llliteracy COmmission the pur-
pose of the attack was to cruelty Mrs
Stewart and destroy her work in the
state. Governor Owsley Stanley in
spired that attack. Is that the kind
of light Kentuckians wanted turned
onY"
Tool of Interests.
He says Mr. Stanley could not have
been elected Governor "if he had not
unequivocably declared himself in
favor of the county unit law, and its
strict enforcement. and that thou
sands of temperance Democrats, OPP
posed to state wide prohibition. ac-
cepted his statements as true and
voted for him. but throughout the en-
tire session he showed himself TO be
the plain tool of the liquor interests.
His opposition TO the anti-shipping |
bill designed 10 prevent boOtlegging |
Is alone sufficient to knock into a cock
ed hat his promise to stand for the
enforcement OF the county unit law"
THE administration is one of COM
plete subserylency 20 the whisky and
brewery trust and Stanley's pre-elec-
ton pledge that he stood for the coun-