Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1904-06-25
Heretofore They Have "Been
in the Hands of Their
Friends"
Many Evidences That Vote Will
Be Heavier Than Was
Expected.
is NOW DRAWING TO The CLOSE

The candidates in the popularity con-
test now have but a very short time to go
among their friends to solicit votes. 1t
Is said to be fact that most of the votes
received up to this time have come to the
candidates unsolicited. This is quite
complimentary to those on the list and
they ought to feel grateful to their friends
and admirers for the Partially shown
to them. No doubt their friends will
continue to work to the very last day and
hour, but the time has arrived for the
candidates themselves to take deeper
interest and not allow their friends to do
all the work. As predicted by the adj
mirers and friends Of the Kentucky Irish
American, the vote will be much larger
than the management of the paper ex-
pected at the outset This was demon
strated in a particular and striking way
during this week, when the subscription
list was swelled by several hundred new
subscribers, all to be credited to this or
that candidate. AS announced last week,
the standing of the various candidates
will not be published any more until the
close of the contest, when the names of
the successful ones will be announced by
the committee appointed to count the
votes. We violate no confidence in OBJ
serving that there were some surprises in
the vote cast this week. Some of the
candidates who have not figured very
prominently in the list up to this time
have come to the front with great strides.
If this continues next week the favorites,
unless they be holding in reserve their
vote, will not be in 1t at the close. Some
Of our old subscribers are sending in two
and three years subscriptions each in
advance, asking that the votes to which
they are entitled be credited their favor
ties. Those who have headed the list of
contestants, however, are still confident
and will not rest from now until the final
vote Is polled. The friends of the young
lady contestants have been particularly
active this week and many hundreds of
votes have been sent in to be credited to
them. Evidently the young gentlemen
friends of the young ladies have gone to
work in earnest for them. The young
ladies are deserving of many more votes
than they have received up to this time.
They are all amiable and pretty girls.
The married couples contest is not lag
cling behind and the vote has been quite
heavy. AS heretofore observed, the single
gentlemen can take care of themselves
and they are out hustling in real earnest
A friend of one of the single gentlemen
In the contest says he will get 100 new
subscribers before July for the Ken
lucky Irish American and have the votes
credited for his favorite. If several of
the single men would get out and hustle
like the one mentioned the result would
be In doubt until the last vote was polled.
The members of the police and fire de-
partments, nearly all of whom subscribe
for the Kentucky Irish American. are
beginning to take interest iu the contest
for their friends, both single and married.
Members of various labor organizations
are also taking hand. This paper has
large circulation among the union labor
people, but until now they have, as a
class, taken but very little interest.
Business men are also showing more in
terest, as many of the retail merchants
have friends in the list. One Main-street
merchant sent In ten new subscribers,
the votes to be credited to one Of the
married couples, and another sends in
five to be credited to one of his young
lady friends in the popularity contest.
AS we 60 to press on Friday the votes we're
coming in by hundreds. The prizes are
well worth going after, to say nothing of
the honor of winning in a contest Of this
kind. The thirty-seven candidates are
among the best people in Louisville, and
their friends can vote for them without
ever expressing or feeling regret for
doing so. It affords man greater pleas
ure to give than to receive. It will afford
any one of the single ladies, for instance,
great pleasure to be allowed to go to the
Worlds Fair for week, and 1t costs but
little to help the young women candi-
dates along. The simplest way is by
sending in subscriptions to be credited to
them. This ought to be done by the
friends of the candidates without the
asking. The contest has progressed so
far with the best of feeling between the
rival candidates, and this will no doubt
continue to the end, and when the result
Is announced, while there may be some
surprises in store for some, there will be
no room for charging that the prizes were
not awarded on a fair count of the vote.
The management intends to give no
room for any one TO say that the con-
test was not conducted on the fairest
basis. Every vote will be credited where
it Is due.
Every day this week there has been an
influx Of ballots, the numbers running