Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-07-31
TO The CITIZENS
OF MADISON COUNTY

dn iIuCle slSlied by M.x =. R1ce,
attacking me for thssinterest
am taking in the race against him
for Representative
Mr.. Rice, as he statesy was a
member of Stanley 'ssProbe Com
mittee, which committees was
never anything but aHg1ire a head
and was appointed n6tfforathe
purpose of investigating Any of
five, but for the sole purp0se of
signing report, the substalice Of
which had already been prcpaF5
ed and dictated by Stanley .hiras
self.
| went to Gov. Stanley and Of
fered to hand over to him my of
fee if he wanted to actually do
away with our Fire Rating Board
ibut T found out at that time that
it was not the taxpayers in whom
he}w so interested. but he
wanted to get rid of a few men
who would not absolutely bow to
his dictates.
/ To cover up his real purpose he
had this Probe Committee ap-
pointed and through its chairman
absolutely dictated this report.
The Fire Rating Board was not
abolished but simply had its name
and the personnel of some of it's
members changed. The salaries
and expenses of this Board was
paid by the insurance com ares
The new Board has about sin
members and employees, whose
combined salaries aggregate
nearly $4,000, instead of $500
as my friend Rice would have yon
believe, and every dollar Of this is
| paid out of the state treasury.
Let me say here that the fire il,-
surance companies made three
Iattempts to raise their rates
while the old board was in exist
ence but we would not permit it.
Shortly after the new board be-
gan business these same compan-
les raised their rates 10 per cent,
Thereby collecting 100000 more
premiums per year from the tax
payes of Kentucky. I wonder if
the insurance companies had any
thing to do with changing these
lboards :?
Mr.. Rice refers to my soliciting
two different attorneys to max >
this race. | never mentioned it
to any attorney except Joe Prev
| lit Chenault, and / did that upon
the, suggestion of some good far
mers who realized that Mr..
Chenault's kinsmen were some of
the most extensive farmers in the
county and he would therefore,
have sound advice upon any farm
legislation that was proposed.
| Mr.. Rice says he voted for
some good farm legislation in
1918 legislature. Let's see. He
enthusiastically supported the
"dog tax law" Do you think it is
| a good law? He also voted to give
our State Tax Commission $685.
900 per year. This commission
said you must raise Madison
cou,lty's assessment four million
|,dollars. Do you think this is good
farm legislation?
l want Mr.. Rice to show us
some good farm legislation. |
don't think he knows good farm
Legislation and his vote for the
two bills just referred to, proves
this beyond any doubt.
My part in getting I. Fl. Col
Inns to make this race is as fol-
lows: Several farmers came to
me and asked me to join them in
soliciting Collins to run and cir
|culating petitions for that pur-
|pose, some of them already hav-
ling talked to him. ! He required
of them 500 names on these petit
tions. I had one petition on
(which there were less than 100
signatures. Other men had pc
titions and all in all there were
more than 600 petitioned Collins
tomake this race. Yes. I am for
him-frst, because, he is my
brother; second, because he is a
successful'fafmer, and recognized
by the farmers of this county and
by the Agricultural College at
Lexington as being as we'll posted
sIany farmer in Kentucky; third
because /. know him, and Iknow
he will not sbe Subject to the die
tates ofeahy''ma or machine.
There they stand-Rice, and
Collins. The only question for
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