The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-06-11
BLACK REPLIES
TO HIS CRITICS
Defends Pass Rseord-calls on Judge
Carroll to DisavOw Circular.

dacy for the nomination for Cover
nor. He followed the lines of his
opening address at Richmond, EN-.
phasizing the need of free State
OF educated citizenry, maintaining
that the State has character, as well
as the individual.
Our school system does not par
take, of any of the elements Of q
charity, but is founded upon the con-
ception that it is the duty Of the
State to provide ample means and
ways for education Of the youth of
the land" he said.
He declared the instruction in our
free schools should be conducted
more than heretofore on practical
lines, in the effort to implant in the
young mind the ambition that each
life should be made an indispensable
one in up-building and maintaining
the Commonwealth"
In part he said:
"That good roads constitute one
of the guarantees of a prosperous
and happy community. While they
do not impart extra power in the soil
to produce, yet they make for good
society, for enjoyment of life, and
really they are an investment in
stead of simply an expense to the
people.
"The manufacture and sale of in
toxicating liquors for beverage pur-
poses is not beneficial to the country.
Ny position on this subject is the
same that it has been for many years,
and it did not take, as in the case of
one of my opponents, a world war
to convince me that a sober person
is better equipped for service than
when he is under the influence of in
toxicating liquors.
Too Many Employees.
"Our penal and charitable institu-
tions ought to be and can be main
tanned independent of politics. They
should be non-partisan in the real
sense. And l promise the people of
this Commonwealth that if l am cleo
ted Governor, will present my views
of this matter to the next General
Assembly and will insist that the
management of said institutions
should be taken absolutely out of
politics.
"If the legislature fails to incor-
porate into the law the views l ex-
press, then l will appoint a board
of control whom l know will keep
institutions out of politics.
"Men and women of large mind
and large heart, deeply interested in
the welfare of the inmates confined
and to be confined in these institu-
tions should be put in charge.
81 recognize the right of the labor
ing man to organize as fully and as
free from interference as capital it.
self organizes for its benefit, and ]
believe that the laboring man is en-
titled to better housing conditions
and better working conditions, and
that increased opportunities should
be given to the children of these peo-
pie in order that they may secure
the best educational advantages.
"There is no excuse for State ex-
travagance or State waste. 1t has
been costing the State too much
money to run it's affairs and there
have been and are too many employ
ees of the State, too many on the
payroll.
Would Amend Tax Law.
"The Government must be main
.ained by taxation, therefore taxes
are a necessity. The present tax
law has some defects and some good
features. l do not favor the repeal
of that law in its entirety, but l be-
lieve it should be amended so as to
remove the defects. 1t would be al
mistake to take tile county from
State. control. Our educational sys-
tenn and the enforcement of the law
are State functions.
"If real estate should be exempt
ed from all taxes for State purposes,
it would inevitably result in such an
burdens on the owners of
other taxable properties that is would
not only keep new enterprises from
coming into Kentucky, but it would
drive some that we already have
from the State.
"The owners of real estate in Ken
lucky are not beggars; they are not
but they are willing to
bear their fair proportion Of the bur
den of the State.
CAN classes of taxable property
should be required to yield its fair
toward the maintenance