Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1913-05-31
willy Editor Cunningly Spreads
Screed of the Notorious
Menace.
Still Pursuing Tactics of Both
Ends Against the
Middle.
REFORM BEGINS AT HOME

On Thursday the readers of the
Evening Post were treated to an
other of its hypocritical outbreaks
when the attention of the many who
are not readers of the A. p. A
Menace were called to the fact that
this filthy little organ, published in
Aurora, Mo-, which the Post, in pre-
tended ignorance, states is pub
lished somewhere across the Missi-
sippi," contains a bitter attack on
Judge Sam Roldrick, of the Police
Court, and the willy editor of the
Post. with assumed indignity and
professed friendship for Judge Bold
rick, calls the attention of many
that NAV not have seen the Menace
to the attack on the Judge. For
simon pure hypocrisy attention is
called to the following from Knott:
"The Evening Post makes these
observations without any considera-
tion of Judge Boldrick's religion,
which, indeed. does not enter in any
way into the question.
"It is thus evident that this at
tack from ar outside and ill-advised
quarter upon Judge Boldrick carries
no weight, nor will this community
respond to any attack upon man
because of his religion"
This has ever been the policy of
this hypocritical journal. Posing as
a friend to Catholics. it has ever
been ready to grasp an opportunity,
as in the above incident, to stir re-
ligious prejudice in this community,
and ignores the fact that reform,
like charity, begins at home. AS an
example of this, last spring the
Guardians of Liberty, an A. p. A.
organization, held meeting here at
the Scottish Rite Cathedral for the
purpose of organizing branch To-
cally The Evening Post published
the only official notice in its adver-
tising columns OF the meeting on
May %. of which there is a copy IN
this office, and one of the chief pro-
moters of that meeting, which was
intended principally to arouse relig-
fous prejudice, was David B. G.. Rose,
the circulation manager of the Post,
and who became official head of the
Guardians of Liberty in Kentucky.
Then this same sheet rails at the
Kentucky Irish American. charging
1t with intolerance. principally be-
cause Knott and his hypocritical
policy we're unmasked. one column
protesting religious liberty and re-
form while another is devoted to or
ganizing a group of ignorants and
midnight assassins. In an attempted
rebuke of a criticism of Judge Bold
rick in the Kentucky Irish American,
the Post further states:
Trfn aavsfa ID
just as intolerant, Just as abusive as
the outside paper that attacks Judge
Boldrick. Some months ago the
Evening Post had occasion to COM
mend Judge Boldrick for his ex-
cellent work in protecting the
negroes in Louisville from police
brutality and his course in citing
before the Board of Safety all police.
men he believed to have been brutal
to negroes. The Irish American
made this the text of an attack upon
Judge Boldrick and the Evening
Post, and, If we could understand its
logic correctly, made the point that
any Democrat commended for acting
Justly 10 negroes deserved to be
watched by his fellow Democrats"
The Kentucky Irish Americans
criticism of Judge Boldrick was not
an attack as construed by the Post,
but an honest opinion from personal
observation and the expressions OF
competent police officials in regard
to the trials Of negro offenders, and
while the Post inconslstently states
that Judge Boldrick has made mis-
takes II grudgingly refuses to allow
anyone else that latitude.