Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1914-01-31
Commissioners Newman's Boom
For Governor Receiving
Severe Setback.
street Car Employees Should Con-
suit Neal Funk For
Aid.
REAPPOINTMENT FOR Big ANDY

The announcement that Congress-
man Swagar Sherley had been able to
secure the appointment of Ben ].
sand as Government Labor Inspector
was very pleasing to the rank and
file of Democracy, who are still in
dignant at Agricultural Commits
sioner Newman for his hasty dis
missal of Sand as State Labor
Inspector during the local campaign.
simply because he furnished data to
the public concerning the wages and
hours OF labor at the tobacco factory
OF the Bull Moose candidate for
Mayor, Newman's action at the time
only being applauded by the Progress
slyes and the editor of the Evening
Times, a lifelong employe of the
latter then being given the position.
IL has been understood all along
that Commissioner Newman was a
receptive candidate for the Demo-
cratic nomination for Governor next
year, but his course in the Sand at
Ialr and the coming publicar
Issued by the Kentucky State Fed
ton OF Labor is expected to puI
tlnal puncture in the boom. as III
deal with history of the playii
politics by Newman before and
the last State election.
Despite the efforts of many a
Representatives and lobbyis
Frankfort, w. A. Price, of Gov,
succeeded in stirring up the
when he introduced a bill "A
gate Percy Haly and Sam
ford, and find out in who's
they were lobbying and
the regular source of the
III nothing else the resolutl
to stir the self-complacenc
aforesaid Percy, who in his
to regulate the politics and an
the people has earned the n
OF all, regardless of party, and
resentatlve Price can rest ass
that the House will not dare ca
out its threat of expulsion, and
he succeeds in getting Haly on q
stand under a grinding cross-exam
ination he can feel that he hasv
earned the appreciation of all, who
can see no good in the domineering
tactics of Haly or his satellites.
Local Democrats are amused at
the actions of some of the street
railway men, a delegation of whom
NohSh VII lnuT6-
day, in company with an organizer,
concerning the organization of a
local union, their real purpose being
to secure the approval of the present
administration in their undertaking,
which to say the least is considered a
feat of nerve when it is taken into
consideration that in the campaign
just passed the street car men
nearly to man were hearty sup
porters of the Bull Moose ticket,
despite the fact that Col. Haager, a
Progressive leader, was the indi-
vidual who knocked their previous
strike into cooked hat by placing
police on the cars, and wouldn't even
let them look cross-eyed on the
corners. Then again Neal Funk, OF
the legal department of the railway
company, lined them up solidly for
Axton, which raises the question,
why don't they get their former
leader to intercede for them with
any requests they may have of their
employers now?
Another despairing wall of the
Progressives was heard last Saturday
when the Grill appeared on the
streets in the hands of some news
boys, while couple of thousand
copies were given away free to the
employees Of the l.. and n shops in
the evening, this publication contain
ing some of the old rehashed cries
of fraud and continuation of the
attack on former Sheriff Emler. The
Grill is edited by j. C. Armstrong, a
new resident of Louisville, and 1t is
rumored a former resident of Mime
apolis. II is further rumored that
the funds for its maintenance are
contributed by the same parties who
led the Axton contest fund, they still
planning a revenge on their success
full Democratic opponents.
The reappointment of Andy Kast
as Superintendent of Sewers and
Drains gave general satisfaction, as
this big Irish-German has a large
following in this city, who are for
him first, last and all the time, his
services always being at the disposal
of his friends for charity or other
wise. incidentally under Superin-
tendent Kast the largest amount OF
sewer and drain work was completed
in the history Of his department.
which fact in itself was sufficient
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