The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-10-23
COURT HOUSE FILLED
WITH THR0NG TO
HEAR Ed. morrow
Record Breaking Crowds Hear Nor
row and Yazell at Court House
Last Nlght-Interest Is Run
ming High In Mason
County.

Every inch of available space in the |
Court House last night was taken by |
the great crowd Of men and women
who gathered there to hear Kentucky |
issues discussed by Hon. Edwin P.
Morrow, the Republican candidate for
governor, and DR.. w. s. Yazell, the
Republican nominee for Representa-
tive from Mason county.
Hon. James M. Collins, was the
chairman of the meeting and in a
very pleasing manner presented DR..
w. S. Yazell to the large audience. DR..
Yazells popularity was seen in the
great cheers that shook the Court
House when he arose. He asked the
support of the good people of Mason
county in the November election
pledging them that he would devote
his time and energy to the improve
ment of his native Kentucky and
promised that II he was elected Repre-
sentative the county would be indeed
represented. He pledged his unquali-
fed support to the improvement of
Kentucky's Public Schools and to the
removal of the public school system
from the grip Of dirty politics. He al
so pledged himself to revision of the
state tax laws to make them equitable
and Just on all classes.
DR.. Yazell presented Hon. Ed P.
Morrow introducing him as the next
Governor Of Kentucky and the popu-
larity of this brilliant young Ken
tuckian was shown by the loud cheers
which went UP from the large au-
dience which arose to It's feet in en-
thusiasm.
In opening his address Mr.. Morrow
paid beautiful tribute to the lament
ed Hon. W.. D. Cochran and then ex-
planned that he had come to Mason
county to talk over state problems and
not over foreign affairs or League Of
Nations.
The Stanley-Black administration
was touched with ungloved hands. The
careless expenditure Of money in the
department of Public printing. In the
establishment Of new Jobs as "fire put
ters OUT, hotel suspecters, dog catch
ers, ETC.. was exposed. The Harkness
tax compromise and the Bingham tax
suit both received attention as did al
so the State School Book Commission,
the Sore Toe book" The overcharge
on biographies to Kentucky school
children was exposed. Mr.. Morrow
showing that Biographies sold In In
diana and in Kentucky were the same
but for few changes In words and a
different color Of back and yet the
Kentucky books were considerably
higher in price than the Indiana edi.
tion.
Mr.. Morrow made himself clear as
to what he expected to do IL elected
Governor of the state, pledging {
worth while school survey and the en-
deavor to remove our school affairs
from politics. He also pledged himsel
to stand by good roads and to see tina
the road funds were spent carefully
J He pledged that he would not use tn
Governors pardoning power as a poll
tical asset and that he stood on hi
platform which declared for Womal
Suffrage.
He said that II he was elected Gov
ernor he would take the chair as
free man with clean hands and that
the people of Kentucky entrusted hiI
with their confidence there would
but one man governor and that ma
would be Ed P. Morrow.
Democrats and Republicans alik
= say that Mr.. Morrow's address wa
one of the cleanest and fairest politi
cal speeches that has ever been mad
in Maysville and by dealing with mat
ters at home In fair and above boar
manner Mr.. Morrow has made for him
self many good friends,
Mr.. Morrow received loud applaus
when, in discussing the school boo
question. he said that the fact that /
Kentucky now there were 10000
school children without their schoC
books testified that the Stanley-Blac
administration had broken thei
pledges on the school book questio
with the people of Kentucky. Mr.. MOI
rows many oratorial flights and wor
pictures during the course Of his at
dress were beautiful and greatly al
preciated by one Of the most attentiy
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