Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1919-10-25
Machine Becoming DemoraIized. and
Dismay Pervades Party
Ranks.
Nominee Ballard Looking For Man
Who Roped Him into Active
Politics.
Howdy Ed Morrow clustering and
Flomdering Around on the
Stump.
BINGHAM PRESS AND HERT.

The weeks political campaign
showed that the Republican part,
machine leaders are becoming de
moralized fast and candidates anC
leaders are grasping at any ole
straw to stem the tide setting il
against them. Gov. Black, Senator
Stanley, Senator Beckham, Ton
Rhea, Congressman Cantrill and the
other Democratic orators have
turned in such terrific lombard
ment on Morrow, Hert, Ballard and
the Republican machine that the
effect is noticeable to everyone and
all indications point to a landslide
for Gov. Black and the Democratic
ticket Old Howdy Ed Morrow, the
much touted orator and campaigner,
has been driven to cover and corner
ed SO much this past ten days that
his speeches now consist OF taking
back something he said the day be-
fore, and the voters have sized him
up just as a clustering campaign
orator who makes wild random
charges one day and apologies the
next. As proof that all is not well
in the G. o. p. it is Tumored that
handling of the State campaign has
been taken out of Chairman Searcy's
hands and Maurice Calvin, of Cow
vington, has been thrown in the
breach to stem the. tide. The old,
old story of dropping the pilot who
can't bring the good ship home. Our
prediction last week that. the State
Fair suit was bluff came true. The
suit was Withdrawn this week.
Another rumor that will not down
is that Thruston Ballard. the Re-
publican nominees for Lieutenant
Governor, has gone away and won't
be back until after election day.
Some of the Republicans are unlxind
enough TO say that it would have
been a good thing for the party IL
he hadn't been around when the
Hert-Searcy hand-picked ticket was
selected. But on the other hand
what must Mr.. Billiards. opinion be
of the man or men who came around
and inveigled him into running for
Lieutenant Governor? The saddest
part of it all from his standpoint
is that while the Democratic orators
and press are bombarding him from
one end of the State to the other
for selling his flour cheaper to out
siders than home people, the Re-
publican Campaign Committee. the
Republican orators and the Republi-
can press are not making any at
tempt to defend him. Not even the
organ of the local Republican ma
chine, the Louisville Herald, comes
to the rescue of Ballard and his
Obelisk flour, and it does seem cruel
ingratitude on the part of the
Herald, which few months ago was
boasting of Ballard, the business
man, ETC., on the Republican ticket.
Now when he has been attacked, not
a word of defense. It's sure a cruel,
cruel world, and we don't blame Mr..
Ballard if he took q vacation.
Speaking of vacations. we could
hardly blame lobe Hert, the ex-
Penitentiary Warden, IL he ran away
from the terrific bombardment COM
ing his way just now. and judging
from the awful barage being laid
down in his direction by Democratic
orators and press literature he needs
more of a defense than the Bingham
press is giving. No wonder the
Courier-Journal and Times didn't
want Hert an issue in this campaign,
and we wouldn't want any bosom
friend of ours hammered like that.
either. Chairman Rhea. of the
Democratic Campaign Committee,
certainly uncovered hornets nest
when he showed by Jefferson County
Fiscal Court records that Boss
Hert's company drew $56,031.02 for
"tarmac" and "tarred ,felt" from
Jefferson county taxpayers. The
Times said that under MIR. Hert's
tutelage the Republican party was
prospecting, but the Bingham press
failed to add that the tutor was
prospecting little on his own ac-
count, and the taxpayers were pay
ing the freight.
There's one funny angle to the
Hert-Bingham combination and that
Is the attitude of the Louisville
Herald, which poses as the organ OF
the G.. o. p. machine in Kentucky.
The Herald bosses are becoming
intensely jealous OF the Courier
Murnal and Times prestige with
Hert. the big Republican boss, and
every now and then the Bingham
press is given a jolt with a lot OF
spleen in it. The Herald managers
KNOW ttiat ttttAi pup. - e-V~N- -
publish all the campaign lies of the
local and State Republicans and day
in and day out is used to defend
near Mayor Smith and his joke ire
form administration. Yet despite
this sacrifice Boss Hert continually
flirts with the Courier-Journal and
Times, who for reward only have
10 defend the G.. o. p. boss and
avoid criticising the reform adj
ministration.
Summing 1t all up, one can see
that all is not joy and serene in the
ranks OF the Republican party.
state Campaign Chairman Searcy is
reduced to the ranks, Ballard fits
ont of the scene, Morrow founders
and busters on the stump without
getting anywhere, and the ex-Peni-
Tertiary Warden is getting an awful
panning from the Democratic camp