Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1919-06-14
Politicians EmulatiDg Example of
the Cat and His Nine
Lives.
Republicans Having Much Trouble
With CoIored Voter and
storms in Sight.
Louisville's "Hick" Firemen Again
Try to Put Out Fire in Cot
tonseed Plant.
INGRATITUDE TO THE HERALD.

Like the tomcat and his proven
bal nine lives. the prohibitionist
politicians refuse to be squelched,
and despite the fact that the issue
is practically settled nationwide
there are a few in every section
who refuse to see that their pet
hobby can no longer be used to adj
vance their political and self-adver-
Using ambitions. The Kentucky
"drys" issue an appeal to the people
of the State this week to vote
against the demon rum this fall, and
of the six societies represented five
are an unknown quantity and the
public is expected to believe that the
societies are bona-fde, although
none have ever heard of anyone else
connected with the organization but
the signer of the appeal for prohibit
ton. Henry S. Barker, the former
Democratic office-holder Of twenty
four years standing, but now Re
publican leader, is President. j. A.
Alexander represents the Democratic
Forward League, and the average
man has never heard who consti-
tutes the membership of this league
or when and where does it meet.
The Anti Saloon League is repre-
sented by DR.. Palmer, of Michigan,
and we'll have to concede the doc
tors organization is working one,
as il has worked the people OF
America out of millions of dollars
and finally out of their rights and
liberties.
= Then comes DR.. w. s. Lockhart,
representing the Mems Federation,
which organization made its reputa-
ton looking for vice and crime dur
ing Democratic administrations, but
since the Republican reform" ad-
ministration came into power the
Federation has evidently been look
ing out the window. Though crime
and scandal during the present local
administration has reached the high
water mark, there has never been
chirp from the Mems Federation.
Rev. Lockhart had good grounds to
stir up a little mess on his own &C
count, as the enterprising burglars
in our midst cracked the safe in his
office in the Inter-Southern building
on January 9 and got away with
$3.50 in Liberty bonds. The next
important signature to the call for
votes for prohibition" is Col. p. II.
Callahan, who claims to represent
the Catholic Prohibition League,
and of which society there is not the
slightest clue. There is not sim
gle Catholic organization in Ken
lucky on record as favoring prohibit
ton, and from where come the
members o. Col. Callahan's society
no one knows. The same applies to
at least four out of the other or
carnations represented in the call.
They have no standing, no publish
ed membership, no place of meeting,
etc. vet these six men attempt to
tell the people of Kentucky their
duties as voters and citizens.
The efforts of the Courier-Journal
and Times and the other Republican
papers seem to have gone for naught
in trying to create dissension in the
Democratic ranks and the guberna-
torial contest between Black and
Carroll. the chief contenders, prom
ises to be a harmonious one, the
same situation applying to the con-
tests for other State offices. GOV.
Black appears to be leading in the
race. and the prospect of Black
against Morrow has frightened many
Republicans, who we're depending on
an unheard of majority for the G..
o. p. in the Eleventh district. Many
predict that Gov. Blacks nomina-
ton win take all the fight out OF
Morrow and the Hert-Searcy ma
chine. But the chief cause for wor-
nv in the Republican ranks, and OF
which you see no mention IN the
Hert- Bingham press, is the row with
the colored voters and printed frst
in these columns. The colored Re
pubHcan leaders say that Morrow
and his friends better quit squalling
about the wrongs of 1915" and
nav some attention to the wrongs
of the colored voters" A mass
meeting of colored voters in Louis
Vile has been called for Monday
night in Quinn Chapel, with Major
cen r. r. Jackson, of Chicago, and
former member of the Illinois Legis-
lafure. as the speaker of the even
ing and he will speak in the inter-
EST of William Marley, the colored
Renublican aspirant for Legislature
in the Tenth ward. No, ines
Searcy and his machine will not De
al the depot to welcome the dlstln.
guished visitor, nor VIII MI. but
lingame. Deputy Mayor, welcome the
Major General ON behalf OF the near
Mayor or Mr.. Hert. The prospect OF
coupling a colored Republican on tne
ticket with Morrow Is causing sleep
less nights to "Howdy Ed" and the
Hert-Searcy machine, and the sup
mort of the Courier-Journal and
Times has not offset that worry.
The Louisville Times, which over
looks the joke police and hre DE.
partments, minimizes the escapes al
the work house. jail, ETC., but al,
ways finds time to throw a bouquet
at near Mayor Smith, just gusnes al
over itself discussing Smiths ap'
pointments on the Sewer Commits.
sion. OF which HE Will BE
CHAIRMAN AND HAVE THE DE