Mountain advocate., 1919-12-12
GOEEBNOR BLACK REPLIES
TO CRITICISM or DIME HIGH
WAY BvILDING
omco of The Governor, Frankfort


by tho mercat sort of accident.
7 have jur. seen and read an article
IN your Paper dated The 2Sd of last
month under The heading: Con
gros.mau Robson Explains Road
situation Knowing that the state
meuts made in that article do me an
injustice. feel impelled to submit
what 7 have here to you on the sub
ject, whether Or not you may give
&c the samo publicity that you have
given 10 the article i'm question. [
know said article reached an audi
,Hcc which, like some others, is al
ways ready 20 accept as true any
and al yritiaiNm, however unfound-
ed tbs criticism may be. of the acts
Of even the faithful public servant
u rs true / appointed MIR. Boggs
to the statement Of state Road Com
missic2nr. That was done on the
ilr5, "a lasL September. Before that
appointment was made, Mr.. Wiley,
the tLeH Commissioner. had inform
ed me Of his intention to resign be-
cause OF superior business advan-
tages which had been offered to him.
tried 20 induce Mr.. Wiley not to
resign, buy was unable to get him
to remain in the office. Upon re-
celying his resignation, it became
my duty. as Governor, TO appoint
his successor. EIs successor, Mr..
Boggs. Is q citizen of Madison Coun-
y, dra.-class man and splendidly
in education and actual road en-
poricncc, 10 discharge the duties of
The position 20 which ! appointed
him, lie then resided, and now re-
sides on the Dixie Highway, and is
deeply interested in the completion
Of that thoroughfare; equally as
deeply as Mr.. Robson or myself.
| cannot deny or ofHrm what Mr..
Robsion said to Mr.. Wiley, or what
Mr.. Wiley promised him, to which
reference is made in the article in.
question.
In said article, the statement is
attributed to Mr.. Robson that he
wrote mo letter last September on
the subject Of having the plans and
surveys made withe q view to secur-
ing Federal aid for Knox and other
Counties in that section of the State
# he ever wrote that letter. I never
saw It.
z, this say that it has heen my
UTila.u custom. since being in Of
ice hero. to promptly look after. rs
Dos. could, my AID uIl cOmmum-
ca,iaa5 ,Gdrcssor to me in reference
20 @ar matter affecting the people of
Knox County or that section Of the
state.
The only letter ever received
from Mr. Robson relating in any
way TO tAe road in Knox County,
bears tho date Of the 21st day of
last month, purporttng TO have been
wr.rtaa ac5 mailed in Washington
D. c., ana ii was received by me on
.he 2-.a c-y Of last month.
"a Tie Same hour l received and
.esd that letter, 7 called Road Com
missioner norg8 to my office. and
reh> over tho situation with him
'o-.2i~.a ia Mr.. Robs.on's letter,
md v.,h:a -lo same hour. / wrote
3 le ... 10 Ill., RoD1ion, addressed 10
1,r 80 darlington, in answer to
bib a,1 letter Of the 2Ist of last
"A C.y Conference viii MIR. Boggs
Just re ggr-. TO, learned from that
O@c.@i .la, oy2"ythiug was being
done AS rapidly as possible, looking
to the COMPLETION of he surveys
and making Of the plans necessary
20 f'aura Federal aid under the law
which Congress enacted some sever
al years ago. so wrote that fact
10 MIR. Robson on the cath day OF
Jos. CoutI. Since that time, l Ia 70
heard @atliug from him other than
ilo .tt.aio in question in your pa
PEI. do 10, know who wrote chat
article Tor your papor
'u sid article it les said that
NJ. &ob.i ion pointed out to Mr..
G3gg5 art me chat many Democrats
and Republicans in Eastern Ken
tucEy fo,t that they were being dis
cr.mlIa,,a against i'm the matter Of
Federal aid and that he especially
urged NC 10 have my appointee, Mr..
Boggs, approve the plans that had
been sent by The Counties in that
sectiouoI the State. / wonder what
politics, whether Democratic or Re-
publican have TO do with a matter
of this character?
Any igtimation that | have ever
dlscrim.altod against any section of
the State i'm amy matter is nothing