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...Emmerson of Illinois. Leslie of Indiana, Cooper of Ohio, Conley of West Virginia, Pollard of Virginia, Weaver of Nebraska, Hammill of Iowa, Reed of Kansas, Erickson of Montana. Republican Governor Flem Sampson of Kentucky wanted to attend but did not dare leave his state lest Lieutenant Governor James E Breathitt. a Democrat, exercise executive authority to make political appointments. Governor Sampson sent Republican Senator John Robsion as his proxy. Governors Horton of Tennessee and Parnell of Arkansas also were represented by proxy...
...Frankfort. Ky., small Fleming Thompson, aged 13. put on a top hat and canvassed Kentucky's House of Representatives for an appointment as pageboy. Voted down, he applied to the State Senate, which last week voted that Fleming Thompson might be personal pageboy for Lieutenant Governor James Breathitt provided he continued wearing a top hat throughout the Senate's session...
...front of the million-dollar state capitol at Frankfort, Kentucky changed governors midstream. Out went Governor William J. Fields, Democrat. In came Governor Flem D. Sampson, Republican. So freakish had been Kentucky's political currents that Republican Governor Sampson entered office with a Democratic Lieutenant Governor (James Breathitt Jr.) and a departmental staff which is Democratic to a man. Soon a Democratic legislature will convene. Surrounded by Democratic Philistines, Governor Sampson was not, however, shorn by a Democratic Delilah. Hampered in obtaining legislation, he can still veto legislation. Governor Sampson was elected because Governor Fields wanted to smash...