Blazon Their Names in Bronze
   Parenthetically and before this long, monotonous
list is closed, suffer a suggestion: This is the day
of memorials; Kentucky has, without doubt, paid
less attention to monuments and memorials of any
kind for her famous sons and daughters than has
any other State. Now, why not mount in the walls
of her magnificent new capitol a long bronze tablet
blazoned with the names of Kentuckians who have
governed other States and territories, setting oppo-
site their names the Commonwealths they served
with the dates of their terms This idea was born
as the writer stood in the rotunda of the University
of Virginia and read the names of the University's
sons killed in battle. The two tablets there attract
as much attention as Zolnay's "Poe." But this is
merely an aside for which we apologize and hasten.
    There can be but one major conclusion concern-
ing the Kentuckians who have governed other
States; they, broadly speaking, accepted Horace
Greely's advice-"Go West, young man; go
A, est." Except in recent years, Kentuckians, as a
rule, have eschewed the East-no son of this State
has yet been elected Governor of any of the New
England or Middle States; they have seldom steered
southward-no Kentuckian has ever been chosen
executive of Georgia, North or South Carolina or
West Virginia. And, to conclude, hitherto no Ken-
tuckian has occupied the gubernatorial chair of
Oklahoma, Wyoming, Alaska, Hawaii, North or
South Dakota, Nevada, Porto Rico, Washington or
California.
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