Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1919-05-31
Administration Wants Two Million
Dollars of Taxpayers Money
TO Spend.
Racing Ends and Near Mayor and
Reform Guardians Offer No
Protest.
Negro Burglars and Holdups Reap
ing Harvest, and Keystoners
Helpless.
PETTY oAMouFLAGEs PUBLIC

Well, the poor old reform" adj
ministration is slipping badly these
days, losing prestige with the PEG.
pie of Louisville, but. there is one
asset that the near Mayor and his
associates cling to, and that is cold
blooded nerve. At the last meeting
OF the General Council an ordinance
was adopted providing a bond issue
OF $1,000, 600 for sewers, the people
to vote on it this coming November
and the commission spending the
TWO million to be appointed by
Smith. You certainly can't beat
that for pure castiron gall from an
administration which now serves us
with dirty streets. ''hick" fire de-
partment, a pay-asyOu-enter City
Hospital and a Keystone police
force. Only a few days ago the
Board of Works, appointed by
Smith pleaded that the street clean
ing appropriation was about done
for, and the only chance we will have
for clean streets until fall is to pull
and pray for plenty of rain. The
first year after the reform" admin
istration went into power the Board
of Works came out with fearful
plea explaining their many faults
and neglects and saying that the
terrible SHOWS of 1917-1918 ex-
hausted their appropriation, but this
past winter we didn't even have the
semblance. of snow and the Board
Of Works pleads it is broke again.
Just imagine what like appointees
of the near Mayor would do with
100000 Here's where the worm
will turn. II takes a two-third vote
to pass this bond issue and the big
asset of the reform" administration
here-the colored Voter-"dunno
much about dem bond issues"
Today marks the closing OF the
spring racing season in Louisville.
and we only refer to ii sadly be-
cause it marks the failure of near
Mayor Smith and the apostles of re-
form in the Mems Federation to de-
nounce the wicked sinners who
were playing the races and the rae
ing game in general The complete
laydown Of Smithy and the little
group of "holier than thou" fellows
in the Mems Federation is enough
to make the angels weep. Just con-
trast this situation once again:
Last fall near Mayor Smith de-
nOunced the racing game from the
housetops, mincing no words is his
TRADE against the racing game and
'tbe train of scarlet women and
gamblers that followed in its wake. I"
(Smith's statement.) Boys were for
hidden to sell racing form sheets on
the streets, news dealers were not
permitted to expose the dope" pa
pers on their newsstands. One luck
less fellow was pOunced on by the
Keystone cops and locked up for
daring to read a form sheet i'm pub
lie. In all of this the near Mayor
was heartily applauded by the little
group of politicians in the Mems
Federation, who only look for wickF
edness and vice under Democratic
administrations. But what fall
from yiItue this year for the 're-
form" Mayor and our guardians OF
virtue. Right of the bat we find
the near Mayor in box on Derby
day. the keystone police In their
seedy uniforms are out there daily,
although the track is outside the
city limits, and saddest of all night
and day boys and men are hawking
and selling racing forms, dope
sheets and tips on the streets and In
our hotel Hobbies. After viewing
this remarkable change of front one
must wonder II the near Mayor and
! his associate reformers had been