Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1913-09-06
Louisville Herald Casting About
For Bull Moose Campaign
Issues.
Voters at Sea Regarding Identity
of Men On Progressive
Ticket.
ONLY KNOW CAMPAIGN LEADERS

At a meeting of the Democratic
nominees held in the Tyler Hotel
Thursday afternoon 1t was decided
to begin campaigning right away.
and enough speakers were secured
to cover every precinct in the wards
and county il necessary. Much en-
thusiasm prevailed and it was the
general sentiment of those present
that the ticket headed by DR..
Buchemeyer for Mayor would win
by a handsome majority and that
the Progressive crowd, without the
magnetism of Roosevelt as a leader
this year, would be trailer in the
race.
Realizing that the public was tired
of its efforts in attempting to make
burglar scares a campaign issue for
the Bull Moose party, the Louisville
Herald is now endeavoring to make
the Pflanz-Foster contest platform
for the Progressives, although the
court records showed that Mr.. Foster
had decisive majority, this, too, in
spite of the Progressive money used
in aiding Mr.. Pflanz in his suit,
500 being contributed by P. H.
Callahan, of the Louisville Varnish
Company, whose friends state that
this was probably due to his lack of
knowledge of the ways of willy poll
ticians or the history of past cleo
tions in Louisville.
AS stated before, the Progressive
organ, the Herald, is casting about
for any issue to muddAe the mind of
the voter and that will serve to keep
under cover the misfit aggregation
posing as Progressive candidates,
the Herald having printed Mr..
Axton's picture several times, but
has never deigned to give its readers
line on the other eighty odd -c2p-,
didates. Many are forced to -
that Duncan Clark and the otl
machine leaders Of the Bull MoosSlQ
nave planned 20 keep their charges
in the background and will not even
publish a little biographical sketch
of the men whom they want to trust
with our public offices, and who, as
the Herald claims, will give us
splendid administration.
Every voter knows the Democratic
and Republican nominees at least by
sight, and a majority of voters and
taxpayers can even give little re-
view of their public and private life,
and 1t isn't exactly fair to the
voters to hide the light of the Bull
Moose candidates under bushei,
that is If they possess half the vir-
tues that Mr.. Duncan Clark speaks
so glowingly of in his columns.
Now things are different in re-
gard. to their campaign committee,
photographs of w. w. Daviess,
ex-Fire Chief Tyson, ex-State Senator
Labe Phelps, former Democrats, APP
pearing with much regularity, these
three always being spoken OF as
Democrats Notwithstanding that Da-
viess and Tyson were active workers
for the Republican ticket in 1909,
while Phelps ran on the Tyler ticket,
to injure the Democratic chances,
and as one leading Democrat re-
marked the other day, 'Labe Phelps
has been out of the fold so long he
wouldn't know a Democratic rooster
II he met 1t in the road"
II has been suggested that IL
Messrs. Vance and Clark, the Pro-
gressive dictators, still pursue their
course of ignoring their candidates
that the Democratic speakers later
on will try to repair the neglect by
telling on the stump just who some
Of them are, and the Kentucky Irish
American will furnish some Of the
sketches which the Herald is so
niggardly about.