The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-09-04
ED. MORROW WILL
OPEN HIS CAMPAIGN
ON next MONDAY
Conference With Committee and AID.
visors Preparatory to Launching
OF Offensive Campaign at
Pikeyille.

Louisville, September 4.-Edwin P
Morrow, Republican nominee for Gov
ernor, will open his campaign at Pike
Vile at / o'clock next Monday after,
noon. He will speak at the court
house.
Mr.. Morrow arrived in Louisville
Tuesday for conference with mem
bers of his campaign committee and
other political friends. He returned
to Somerset last night.
Following his formal opening adj
dress in Pikeville, Mr.. Morrow will
enter upon one of the intensive speak
ing campaigns for which he became
famous in his previous race for COVER
nor in 1915. His itinerary has not
been arranged, but he expects to be
active up to the day of election.
The opening of the Republican cam
paign has been delayed on account of
the Democratic State platform con-
vention which will meet here Thurs
day. The Republicans expect to base
their campaign entirely upon State is
sues, and the character of the plat
form adopted by the opposition Thurs
day naturally will have great bearing
upon Mr.. Morrow's initial speech,
The Republicans have been waiting
with keen interest to learn what their
opponents would have to say in their
platform upon two points; the admin
istration of Governor Stanley in gen.
eral and the contract with special at
torneys to represent the State in the
Bingham inheritance tax case in par
ticular.
Recent developments, however, have
left little doubt as to the position
which will be taken by the Demo
cratic convention on their proposition.
Indications at the recent mass conven
ton showed clearly enough that the
Stanley administration is to receive
an unqualified Endorsement. In fact,
it is currently reported that Senator
Stanley made it Enthusiastically plain
that he would prevent the holding of a
platform convention, unless promised
an Endorsement Of his acts as COVER
nor.
Likewise the attitude of the conven-
ton on the inheritance tax contract
was forecast by the recent act of Gov
ernor Black in ousting Eli H. Brown,
Jr., from participation in the rich fees
under that contract, and the CORE
spondence with reference thereto.
This development left no room for
doubt that the platform either will be
silent as to the contract, or will COM
mend Governor Black for ousting
Brown.
The Republicans, naturally, have
been planning to attack the admins
tration of Governor Stanley for gross
extravaganza, multiplication Of useless
jobs, and the conversion of previous
pledges into scraps of paper. They
declare that Governor Black, since his
elevation to the governorship, has
taken new steps which gives promise
Of better things, and their interest in
the convention has been to see wheth-
er the Democrats would repudiate the
Stanley regime either by silence, in
ference or by damning IT with faint
praise.
The Endorsement OF Governor Stan
ley will place the onus Of his admin
istration squarely upon Governor
Black, and the camouflage OF keep
ing Stanley in the background" can
be exposed easily by less capable or
ators than Edwin P. Morrow.
Contrasts such as that in the Bling
ham case are denounced in the Re-
publican platform. The Republicans
can see no reason why the State
should pay hundreds of thousands of
dollars to private attorneys for work
which the attorney general and his
assistants are supposed to
do.
The fees in the case mentioned, 1t
Is estimated, will be in the neighbor-
hood of 100000, with Eli H. Browns
one-fourth left out.
Republican candidates. therefore.
expect to have considerably the bet
ter of the argument when Governor
Black goes before the people and
tells how he saved them 100000 by
ousting Eli Brown.
Ed Morrow's views on these and
other State issues will be awaited with
keen interest by the people of Ken
lucky. His friends here remember
ing his keen analysis of State issues
on former occasions and his skill in
stripping the mask of camoufage from
artifully disguised political iniquities
are confident that the echo of his
opening gun will be heard from the