The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-04-12


State Department is urging local Of
hoers all over the state to a strict en-
forcement of the law Fifteen or
twenty arrests in Maysville have just
been made of parties failing to COM
ply with the license law."-Fleming
Gazette Of April 4, 1916
Mr.. Wilt, why were these boys
fined? Both had made application to
the commissioner for license and had
no intention of violating the law what
ever. As Mr.. wilt says "fined in Po-
lice Court" | will give you in detail
where one of them was fined and you
can draw your own conclusions as to
why they were fined
This is not the first time that this
injustice has been forced upon good
citizens who have gone to Flemings-
burg to buy your merchants goods
and patronize your garages, but many
times, in fact, too many times to let
go unnoticed.
Harold O'Bannon says his motor
cycle was at Mr.. Dudleys garage for
repairs and thinking he could finish
the repairs himself, concluded to take
it out to his home at Mt. Carmel. But
before attempting to move the machine
he mailed his application for license
The postal authorities informed him
il should reach Frankfort about night
No intention of violating the law. He
left Flemingsburg for home about
$3.50 o'clock and when about one mile
out he ran out of gasoline. He start
ed back to town for more, running the
machine by his muscle, pedaling it, il
you please When he pulled up to Mr.
Dudley's street gasoline outfit he was
arrested by the local officer Ills APP
plication for license should have been
in Frankfort by this time), taken to
the second floor of the Merchants
Hotel across a long porch to an out
of-the-way, dark, dusty room, in
which he was fined and demanded
Sl4. TIE boy had no money, which
seemed to incense the officers, from
the threate that followed: "If you
don't bring this money in Saturday
morning. we will send the sheriff out
there after you"
| ask you again, why was this inno-
cent boy treated so shamefully? Was
il the local officers love for the strict
enforcement of the law? Let us see
about that. Some one is selling whis-
ky over there and has been ever since
the town went dry. | make my accu-
sation upon this fact, viz; That cit
liens from all over the county go there
sober, especially on County Court
Days, and come home drunk-"Flem-
ingsburg murder juice"
Mr. Willis assertion that there have
just been made fifteen or twenty ar
rests in the city of Maysville is wrong.
Chief of Police Mackey informs me
that there has not been an arrest
made this year, so far. in the city of
Maysyille, for failure to secure license
tags. Mr.. Willis makes another blum
der when he attempts to make you be-
lieve that the State Department is
urging his local officers to arrest and
fine people who have made applica-
ton for their license. The heads of
the department, two of them, have
been in Maysville three or four days
and caught several auto owners with
out tags who had even made applica-
ton for licenses. They did not arrest
them, but warned them not to do so
any more.
People generally in Maysville and
out of Maysville found them to be per-
feet gentlemen in every respect.
The intention of the auto license law
Is not to annoy the travelling public,
nor servie as a cloak for highway
robbery. but to be of benefit to the
public roads of the state.
The only judge that deserves the
title of judge is he that administers
Justice oftener than the law.
It will be well for you, Flemings-
burg, to rid yourself of some para
sites.
j. b. OBANNON.