The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-09-05

weeks In advance. nor the further
fact that the court of appeals went SO
far as to settle the rights of parties.
and place the authority in the COVER
nor's hands to make appointments to
Ian all the offices declared vacant. We
are interested only in how well the
governor performed this duty?
There is bad blood between the
governor and the Louisville politi-
clans. The feud is so bitter, there Is
no surcease from strife. On the other
hand, there is no personal III feeling
existing between Auditor Hager and
any member of the Louisville crowd.
It. Is even said that Hager would
have preferred some other than Beck
ham for senator. but that is neither
here nor there. II is sufficient that
the fight between Beckham and the
Louisville crowd is without quarter;
while Hager is friendly to them, and
how dire is his need of votes in
Louisville, no one knows better than
the candidate for governor.
When Governor Beckham appoint
ed Robert Bingham mayor of Louis,
vile, his man was hailed as the
great deliverer, the knight of the lid.
and the champion, who was to put
down with a firm but Just hand I'M
righteousness in the Democratic par
ty. The state committee was to name
commission to take charge of the
Democratic primary at which Bing-
ham was to be a candidate. and John
Vreeland was to be summarily ex-
PEELED from the state committee.
These reassurances from Frankfort
made Bingham bold. He called Char
lie Granger a liar. He dismissed all
the first class ward politicians from
Barth administration with such ruth
lessness. that that sensitive gentle
man took his own life for very
shame.
Here ends the political career of
Mr.. Bingham. Somebody cut the
wires into the state committee. He
failed to get connection, when it was
time to make good his boast. Sud
denly owen Tyler, vice mayor during
the Barth administration, and a re-
spectacle machine figure head, an
nounced for mayor. John Vreeland
prepared to hold the primary, fixed at
a date in which Mr.. Bingham had no
say. Governor Beckham has not
made his political success by going
back on his friends, but evidently
Governor Beckham does not control
the state committee. and the voice of
Bingham has changed to a plaintive
refusal to enter the primary, because
the same sort of tactics that brought
down the condemnation of the court
of appeals on Louisville Democracy
is to be resorted TO IN behalf of Owen
Tyler. Governor Beckham may APP
point reform mayors in his discre-
ton but Hager and Hines control the
state committee, and it couldn't be
used to destroy the Louisville ma
chine. Why? Perhaps, because Ha-
ger needs the support of the Louis
vile aggregation.
But Bingham is not all In that I'M
happy situation. Scott Bullitt, a flu
sion reformer of the last campaign.
was appointed sheriff and he will
hold the election. The old Louisville
ward heelers viii be working at the
polls again in November. but they
will not wear police uniforms, and
Scott Bullitt will see that officers,
fearless and honest, are in charge Of
the election, and when the count
comes he is the third member of the
election commission. They will
scarcely steal the election in Louis
vile this fall, and the citizens will
attend to the rest.