Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1919-04-19
DEMOCRATIC
Contest For Governor Now Has a
Field Of Five candi-
dates.
Local BolshevilSi Administration Is
sues Another A'ibi Pub
lication.
keystone Police Furnish Comedy
Picture at Eclipse. Bail
Park.
CAPTAIN CITES KEYsroSERs.

The contest for the Democratic
nomination for Governor seems to
be made up. and with that issue
settled many are now announcing
for the other places on the ticket.
Thomas S. Rhea, the last to enter.
has met with much encouragement,
his friends claim and Senator Sell
den r. Glenn, the best and smooth
est organizer in the State, will
handle his campaign. Lieut. Coy.
Black has not yet opened head
quarters, but reports show that he
has already built substantial or
ganization in every district. Col
P. ]. Noel, of HarodsDurg, is a
surprise candidate for the Guber-
material nomination, but is receiv-
ing wide advertisement. Judge
John D. Carroll Is receiving the sup
port of the legal fraternity and Col
Eli Brown is one of his. most act
I've handlers and hackers. Lieut..
/ Col. H. II. Bernhard, of Bowling
Green, finally announced his candi-
dacy. being supported by Percy Haly
and Dan e. O'Sullivan, and an eff
fort is being made to secure the
support of the Courier-Journal and
Times and the little group of hotel
politicians who knitted Stanley four
years ago.
In the Republican ranks the cam
didacy of Howdy Ed Morrow is not
awakening much enthusiasm, and
what little cheer there was in the
party's State prospect has been
knocked out by the plan of Hert AMI
his friends to pick their own ticket
for the State offices and then say TO
the Republican voters in August:
Take it or leave It,, A trip to
| the polls by a Republican voter on
primary day will be waste of
! time and trouble as the Hert selece
lions VIII be chosen in advance and
the party voters. will have no say
The selection of Hert as National
Committeeman has never set very
well with the old guard OF the Re-
publican party out in the State, and
the fact that his election over Col.
McCulloch, of Greensboro, was made
possible only by the half vote of a
negro delegate from Hopkinsville
didn't make the bitter pill any
easier to swallow. The old line Re
publicans out in the State threw up
their hands when Hert selected
Searcy, a fellow Louisville Republi-
can, as State Campaign Chairman,
and they say that makes the odds
doubly hard against success. One
is that the State is being ignored
by the Louisville bosses and the
other is that the mismanaged and
misfit Bolshevike administration of
the Republicans here has hurt the
party throughout the State
The local Bolshevike administra-
ton follows up the joke publication
which it issued some time ago I'M
der the title of Facts" with an
other of similar character entitled
the LOG Cabin" Robert Lucas,
the City Court Prosecutor, is editor
of the new publication, and the ed
itor shows wide versatility as
newsman. In one column he moves
you to tears by asking the voters
not to please disturb near Mayor
Smith and his joke administration
by electing a horrid Democratic
council this fall, as an opposition
council might ask Smithy to show
why the city treasury was broke
and where had all the money gone.
This would sure be sad. Editor
Lucas might add that If the people
selected a Democratic council some
nosey member of that body might
want to know who got all the fees
the keystone police received for
coping autos accused OF being out
sixty-one minutes or more at q
time; or why weren't the streets
outside of Broadway and Fourth
cleaned any more; or will any alley
ever be cleaned before the near
Mayor goes out of office. There
are lots and lots of questions a
Democratic or independent council
might ask and you can hardly blame
Lucas and his associates from getting
scared. But aside from that sob
stuff, you could hardly keep from
chuckling. out loud or going into
mysteries when you read in the
Log Cabin publication about the
wonderful police we were getting
and what a splendid fire depart
ment we had, and an article was
quoted from the Herald written by
the press censor) comphmenting
the Keystone police, while the col
uillQS Ol the OOuIltI-JOuIudl anu
Times (Mr. Hert's boosters) were
quoted in praising the thick" fire
department, which always saves the
ground anyway in case of fire.
After perusing the alibi publica-
ton OF the, Bolsheviki administra-
ton and bearing in mind the won
derful testimonials concerning our
''yap" Keystoners the writer and
some friends boarded a Seventh.
street ball park car to see the
Pittsburgh game.
At Seventh and Grayson on the
northwest corner there was a big
negro crap game right on the sido-
walk, the crowd being so dense
passers-by had to walk in the
street. Testimonial No. / for eff
cheney of the Keystoners, and Cen
trail Police Station (beg pardon.
barn." as the ex-motormen and