Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1913-05-03
Have Sixty Days From Today In
Which to Secure Voters
Signatures.
Legislative Candidates Need But
Small Number to Comply
With Law.
STRONG DEMOCRATIC TICKET

Petitions for place on the ba,,ot
IA tne coming August primary viii
De Widely circulated beginning TO-
uay' as this is the first day under
the law which allows them IN he
circulated. Many candidates viii
Degin hustling today for the reopisita
number OF signatures before the huIl~
OF slgners are gobbled up. as those
oDtained are equivalent to support-
ers, as the signer of a nomination
paper OF candidate is expected to
declare himself for that particular
candidate. Candidates are given
sixty days from today in which 10
secure signatures, all petitions hav-
ing to be filed by July 2, and are
subject to inspection by candidates.
the County Attorney and the Com
monwealth Attorney.
The candidates for the county
otflces in order to secure the neces-
sary per cent, which is the lowasr
number required by law, will have
70 secure 733 names, and the candi-
dates for the city offices will have to
secure 622 signers, that is the can
oldates who are running in the city
at large. Those candidates in a dis
trict, such as Legislative candidates.
Will have to secure a small propor-
ton of signers; for instance the
Forty-fifth district candidate will
only need to secure about fifty-four
si9ners: the Fortx-sixths district can
didste about 140; the Forty-seventh
district candidate about seventy
eight; the Forty-eighth district can
dldate about seventy; the Forty
ninth district candidate about fifty
four, the Fiftieth district orf1y
twenty, this being the Tenth ward, a
Republican stronghold; the Fifty
first district candidate about 21O,
this being the Eleventh and Twelfth
wards.
or course an OF me atUvv-figrS
are based on the Democratic end
the primary, the only interest thus
far being exhibited from that party,
the interest of the Progressives and
Republicans being centered on the
fight between the Herald and the
Post as to a probable Fusion ticket.
the willy Editor Knott becoming more
frantic daily as he realizes there Is
no chance for him or his organ TO
tag into either party. On the other
hand the Herald. despairing of re-
viving the fast dying Progressive
party, is now agitating the suffra-
gette question with the hope of
securing this fad element to boost
the Progressive cause.
As predicted in these columns
several months ago. DR.. John II.
Buschemeyer will have no opposition
for the Democratic nomination and
very little in November. Judging
from the present outlook we expect
some of the Republican or Progress
sive brethren to rise and offer a mo-
tion to make his election unanimous.
Our other best bet, Scott Bullitt, has
fulfilled our predictions and will
have no opposition for The nomina-
tion for County Attorney to succeed
himself, although many of the boys
in the trenches had hoped to see him
aspire higher. his personal pop
uiarity enabling him to secure their
united support at all times. Charlie
Cronan is another with no opposition
in his race for the Sheritf's nomina-
ton, and with men of this caliber
the Democrats need not fear the
ultimate outcome, as the ticket
chosen by the Democratic voters in
the primary can surely be called the
peoples choice.