The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-07-01

gubernatorial race into sitting pan
1t seems, after the pan has beer
shaken vigorously and peep has beer
taken at the sediments remaining IL
the bottom, that the campaign for thu
Democratic nomination for Governor
will be warm one, and that the fin
ish will be close.
Governor James ID. Black, who ear.
lier in the affair was picked by many
to win, is said by hackers of Judge
John d. Carroll to be fast losing
ground. With broadside denunciatioT
and reproach cast upon him concern.
ing his action in connection with the
State Text Book Commission, with his
refusal to comply with the wishes and
advice of one cd more "big guns" from
Louisville who visited him last week
and so on, come the reports and claims
that Carroll is fast gaining ground.
Developments of the last week point
to the seeming fact that politicians
throughout the State have grown firm
in their convictions that Governor
Black intends to leave state Office in
oumbents holding recess appointments
by Governor Stanley undisturbed. 1t
is now therefore accepted generally
that State Fire Marshal Thomas B.
Pannell is the Governors choice as
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Thurman, of Springfield. Judge Thur
man, it is understood, used the travel
on thy own feet" idea on the Cover
nor, using him strongly to separate
himself completely from other fac
tons.
What will be the outcome of the
State Text Book Commission discord
is a question that continues to keep it.
self squarely before the public. The
Governor, it is said, refuser to dis
charge the commission, even after the
supposed insistence of Percy Haley,
w. w. Davies, of Louisville, and Judge
Thurman, who, according to Louisville
papers, were in Frankfort Monday
night with list of proposed members
and legal authority giving the opinion
ousted.
The Text Book Commission problem
was a seething question that was hard
to stifle in the discussion of members
of the Kentucky Educational Associa-
ton in Louisville last week. On the
one hand Governor Blacks stand was
condemned, while on the other hand,
those who addressed the teachers ig-
nored all phases Of it,
The labor element, as Of the United
Trades and Labor Assembly, meeting
in Louisville last week, denounced the |
Governors action.
Judge Carroll has refused so far to |
express his sentiments in regard to |
Governor Blacks stand in the text |
book matter. In Lexington last week,
attending the lawyers convention, he
fatty declined to discuss the matter.
Thursday and Friday were Laws"
red letter days in Lexington Between
$50 and 200 attorneys, representing
almost every county in the State, at
tended the eighteenth annual meeting
Of the Kentucky State Bar Association
Politics had no part in the program,
but in the informal gatherings of
groups of the lawyers in the streets
md hotel Hobbies it was not entirely
barred from conversation
Black men and Carroll men seemed
o be pretty equally divided, although
supporters of each Of the men vigor-
,usly insisted that his choice would
rave his offices in the capitol build
ing.
Rumor had it that one group of law
yers, mostly from the other side OF
when dining all at one ia
lie in the Leonard Hotel Thursday af-
er the morning session, took up dis
,ussion of the gubernatorial race on
he Democratic side. A map of Ken
lucky was produced. One of the group
off that part of Kentucky
which lies between Winchester and
he Big Sandy river, offered even
money that Governor Black woudd get
line-tenths of the votes cast in that
section. 1t is said there were no
akers.
Carroll supporters, seemingly
trong in their belief that their can
lidate will have no trouble In winning
he nomination declared that with the
awyers OF the State behind him vic
DRY would be certain, and declared
urther that the lawyers are behind
lin.
Several of the lawyers declared that
sentiment throughout the State In sec
ions where Governor Black Is sup
,osed to be strong is now favoring
CARROLL.
M. M. Logan. former chairman of the
State Tax Commission, addressing the
convention OF county tax commission
RS in Frankfort last Wednesday, on
he relation of the county commission
II to the state commission, said that
III candidates for Governor seem
Igreed that the present tax law should
lot be repealed, although 1t may re-
luire amending. Reports add, how
.var that he warned them that some