The Big Sandy news., 1919-10-10
STANLEY MAKES
WARM REPLY TO
ED. P. MORROW
By Thomas B. Cromwell

his administration as Governor of Ken
lucky against the attacks of Edwin p.
Morrow Republican candidate for that
Office, United States Senator Augustus
Owsley Stanley, before a large audience
In the Pike county courthouse this aft
ernoon, delivered to Governor James D.
Blacks opponent vigorous chastise-
ment.
He made a vigorous defense Of his
acts and then held Morrow In ridicule.
1t was the most scathing speech thar
Stanley has delivered since when in his
race four years ago he fiayed the late
Richard w. Knott.
Senator Stanley opened with the
statement that his administration need
ed at this time no defense at his hands,
declaring that the public of Kentucky,
by their vote and in convention as
sembled, twice placed the seal of their
approval upon that administration.
Were | guilty Of all the Jnalfeas-
ance in office that he told you about;
were / as bad as he says / am as
wicked and corrupt and cruel. would
the intelligent and discriminating cleo
torate of Kentucky not long since have
relegated me to the shades of private
life?
Despite my sins. however, accord
ing to Morrow, for nearly 20 years /
have continued to represent the voters
OF kentucky As / look about me on
the floor of Congress and in the SEN
ate they all are gone whom you called
TO high office except ME, dead or de-
feated. The poor, foolish, beguiled
public of Kentucky still continues to
turn Ed down and turn me up"
Senator Stanley said that Mr.. Nor
row seeks support not because he is
worthy, but because he says am not
worthy of 1t.
He has not told you of anything he
did," Stanley declared. He has told
you the things did not do. The voters
might excuse this effort to raise him
self by dragging another down If he
were candidate against me, but he is
running against James d. Black. not
Stanley.
''Will he be any whittier by trying to
blacken me Show me the man or wo-
man who forever is trying to cause him
self or herself to be better by scandal
izing everybody else in the neighbor-
hood. and will show you a common
gossip, a person unfit to be Governor
OF Kentucky.
After having read excerpts from
Morrow's Pikeville speech, wherein the
Stanley administration was charged
with wanton, reckless expenditure of
public funds and with fraudulent fa-
voritism, resulting in the loss and
waste of public money, Senator Stan
ley went into a lengthy explanation of
the settlement of the Harkness tax
case and the employment Of attorneys
to secure settlement of the Bingham
tax case.
He stated that he had for the past
four years made a fight against al
lowing Auditors agents and Sherjffs
to collect back taxes.
lie told of the defeat of House Bill
$40 which would have deprived fnem
OF this right, asserting that 1t was
beaten by the men who desired to con-
tinue this practice over his protest. He
asked what Legislation Morrow ever
had advocated to protect the state in
any way Senator Stanley made the
declaration that the Governor has no
more authority 10 employ an attorney
than any of his audience.
In further telling of the framing and
passing of the inheritance tax law un-
der his administration Senator Stanley
paid a tribute to its author, Captain
Reuben Hutchcraft, who, as member
of the Rainbow Division, met death in
France.
Text Book Board Defended.
In discussion of the text books and
the adoption by the commission he ap-
pointed. Senator Stanley said that Nor
row had attacked only two books, the
Grinstead Speller and Heizer's Physi-
ology, both of which were written by
Kentuckians and published by Ken
tuckians He asked il Morrow counts
1t wrong for Kentuckians to write and
publish books. He said that Morrow
had attacked the Heller Physiology
only because of mistakes in grammar,
and he compared Morrow's grammat-
ical construction in the very speech in
which the attack upon Heizer was
made, provoking frequent laughter.
He concluded discussion of the book
matter with the declaration that ''if
Heizer's mistakes have made Kentucky
laugh, as Morrow claims they have,
Morrow is preparing to add to the mer-
riment of nations. There are more mis-
takes in one paragraph Of Morrow than
in a whole chapter Of Heller"
Senator Stanley asserted that Nor
row, more than any other man, is re-
sponsible for the nonexistence to-day
of bipartisan Board Of Control Of
Charitable Institutions. 1t was Morrow.
he said, who went into Frankfort at
midnight and organized movement in
the Legislature that resulted in the
consolidation of the Prison Board and
the Board of Control and caused the
Republicans to lose their seats.
In conclusion Senator Stanley called
upon Morrow to state his position on
the League of Nations, saying: I'm the
dismantled homes all over Kentucky
fathers and mothers by their lonely
firesides are waiting for the footsteps
of sons that never will return. They
demand to know. and they have a
right to know. Mr.. Morrow, whether
you stand for peace or for war; wheth-
er you stand with Woodrow Wilson
for the peace of the world, or whether
your lot is cast with Lodge and Knox
and Johnson. those stone-age Senators.
The question is bigger and broader