The menace., 1917-11-17

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II pal victories were won on
II November 9th. The tickets
66S, for which THE MENACE ag-
gressively fought and urged
patriotic Americans to support were
triumphantly elected. In Louisville,
Kentucky; Buffalo, New York; Pitts
burg, Pennsylvania, and Indianapolis,
Indiana, the candidates supported by
THE MENACE were endorsed by the
electorate.
The Louisville Victory
In Louisville, Kentucky, ten weeks
ago the Whallen Irish Roman Cath
olic ticket seemed to be invincible.
The political machinery of the city
was in complete control of this
powerful INSCRIPTIONS Irish Roman
Catholic political organization that
had dominated the municipal govern
ment for ten years.
So certain was the Whallen Irish
Roman Catholic machine that its
tenure Of Office was unbreakable that
it placed something like forty Roman
Catholics on the ticket. The organ
ization was as perfect as that Of
Tammany Hall during the palmy
days of Boss Tweed.
The undeniable connection between
the Roman Catholic hierarchy and the
malodorous Whallen Irish Catholic
machine was clearly shown in fact
that there were something like
ttUo thousand t,Uo hundred papal en-
pLoyees to ttVo hundred and fortv-
fve non-Catholics on the city pay,
roll. In no city in the Union die
! everything seem so propitious fol
further hierarchal domination as il
Louisville.
! Emboldened by a sense Of security
the Romanist political machine nom.
mated more than two-thirds of the
democratic ticket from members Of
the Roman Catholic church. Thi:
was the situation ten weeks ago.
Then Something Happened
Quietly and unostentatiously
special correspondent for The MEN
ACE, man of exceptional ability, ex
perienced as writer, a conscientious
high-minded Christian gentleman
had been for many weeks painstak
ingly engaged in gathering the shea
of facts, which were 10 constitute tn
most authoritative and brillian
series of papers exposing municipa
corruption and mis-government o.
the one hand and Roman Catholi
domination of municipal politics o.
the other, that had ever appeared il
, any publication, daily, weekly o
monthly, in the republic, This serie
of papers is not paralleled in bril-
liancy, accuracy and startling reve
lations of amazing and almost ir
credible civic conditions by an
series Of like articles that have az
peared with the possible exception Q
Lincoln Stefiins "Shame Of Gu
Cities" which some years ago al
founded the nation and led to man
revolutionary reforms. Mr.. Steffir
while showing the sinister infiuenC
Of big business or corrupt corporal
! wealth over municipal affairs, faile
to uncover the other eating cancC
} in our city governmcnts-the Roma
Catholic political machines whiC
since the days of Boss Tweed hay
done more to debauch American m,
nicipal government than any oth'
5 single influence.
} In our issue for September OR
( appeared the opening paper Of Il
5 remarkable series prepared by OF
; commissioner and which complete
< uncovered the workings of the Whs
3 len Irish Roman Catholic machil
3 and from thence week by week tt
: MENACE published from one to ty
2 of these great papers containing
3 thoroughly authentic, yet most anna
3 ing revelation Of the demoralizil
z and destructive results Of Rom'
3 Catholic rule in the great Protesta
8 city of Louisville.
z Between one and two hundr
B thousand copies of THE MENACE co
G tanning these papers, besides its lar
X regular subscription list, went il
b Protestant homes in Louisville dr
g ing the weeks in which this mast'
X ly series of papers appeared.
q The result Of this exposure "
& Immediately seen and felt throul
8 out the entire city. We were, delug
q with letters Of congratulation fr,
R prominent Protestants, containi
q such expressions as the followil
y "If Louisville is redeemed from I
B Whallen rule, THE MENACE will
q responsible for the victory" "Pro
X inent Masons and leading Prot
d tants have declared to me, that
q the miracle happens, that is if {
X city Is wrested from the rule
3 Whallen and his Roman CathC
z crew, the triumph will be larg
* due to THE MENACE" "THE MI
E ACE has changed the political sit
Y ton, it now looks as If there v
X some chance for clean Protests
% ticket, such as the Republicans hi
B nominated, carrying the day,