Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-07-24

nave gone lIlIO lut tlIttiouiy VI yoei
Commonwealth.
"Now you know, gentlemen, that
on next November the people, of Ken
lucky will elect an entirely new set
of officers and in doing that, we will
relieve Judge Carroll in the event Of
his nomination of the hold that Eli
Brown, Marshall, Speer Hines, Carr
and numbers of others have on him.
"The next charge that my friend
the Chief Justice Of the Court of APP
peals sees fit to make against me,
has to do with the letter that l wrote
on the first of April, 1912, in be-
half of my neighbor, VIM. Tye.
Judge Carroll, when he was be-
fore you this evening for some rea,,
son. know not why, failed to read
YOU that entire letter. Now / want
to tell you about that letter.
81 need not disclose to you how old
| am, but have been in active life
professional and business, for forty
years and during that time !! have
held few offices given to me by the
people of my section and of the state.
81 have said repeatedly in answer
ing these vital charges against me
about that letter, that / would pay
the expense of any honest man or
woman in any part of the Common
wealth who would go to. my section,
where have lived from the days of
my birth, until now; go among the
people with whom I have lived, and
with whom / have transacted BUSH
ness. sa,a .a.l.t l,rtt .H.3. ~
@If they can find there any one who
will come to Mayfield and tell you
that ever owed a debt that i did
not pay or that / willfully told a
falsehood; or that before any jury
before whom l appeared in court,
either directly or indirectly, sought
to influence juror or jury, except in
open debate in the presence and hear
ing of the court.
"Should you find such person,
then you ought not to nominate me.
Gov. Black said his critics did not
tell that, while members of the Leg
islature and other office holders were
riding on passes, he was paying his
railroad fare, having surrendered his
pass upon taking the oath of office
as Lieutenant Governor in 1912.
"They did not tell you what I did
when presiding over the Senate in
1916. There came to the Senate a
bill that sought to force every rail.
road company in Kentucky to pay its
employees twice a month, and I, as
presiding officer of that Senate die
more than any other person in the
body to give that bill its first read
ing and get it up for final passage.
T mention these things, showing
that I have nothing for the railroad
companies and nothing against them
but that l am friend of the people
generally"
Referring to Judge Carroll's fail
ure to vote for William Goebel, Gov
. Black said:
IT can remember back yonder al
the time when William Goebel, of sa
cred memory, was the Democratic
candidate for Governor in Kentucky
. and William ]. Taylor, the bigges
! plug that Republicans, even, ever pu
up for that office, think, was tn
Republican candidate for Governor.
, 1.-THE L. & N, that you say | wrot'
I this letter to, was then on William
Goebel's trial, and from our owl
confession, my distinguished friend
YOU sulked in your tent and refused
, to vote for William Goebel."
The Governor said he, about tel
. days before Gov. Goebel was assist
mated, made trip from his noun
J tain home, leaving Barbourville a
midnight, to warn Gov. Goebel o
J threats against his life.
. "At the same time | gave thi
/ warning, the L. e. N. was shipping U
7 Frankfort, a lot of desperate men
+ in ten days after that | looked upol
{ the lifeless body of William Goebe
! and / walked in the procession o
stricken Democrats who marche
, through the rain, through the street
5 I'D to the cemetery and saw his bod
laid to rest. Where were you the
3 Judge Carroll?
' snow let me tell you, gentlemen
about the letter about which he in
diets me here. In the election o
1911 there was little Democrat
. newspaper called the Peoples News
in Barbourville, the only Democratl
, newspaper published in that sectlo
of the State at that time.
"Some of the Democrats got 70
gether, raised money and bought tina
little newspaper in order that its en-
Z tire strength and influence might b
directed toward the election Of, Coy
: McCreary and the Democratic ticke'
r "Now that was trade for the IN
terest of the Democratic party, an
: this young man for whom | wrot
: that letter was put in charge Of tn
management Of the Democratic pape
in my Republican county. :,
IS "The Louisville & Nashville Raj
road Company in 1912 issued to hi
an annual pass. l had no more to d
with getting that pass issued to thi
] young man than one of you gentl'
:; men did.
| ~ in fact didn't know that he ha
] pass until he came to me in m
I office in Barbourville on the first da
! of April, 1912. Now William I!
| was my neighbor and friend. /
| was a lifelong Democrat in pol
q! tics.
! ale came to me saying in su
I stance: "You know ! have been Ian
] basting the Republicans in this lit