Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1919-09-27
Committee Erred in Not Asking For
Substitutes for the Key
stoners.
Firemen Quitting TO Avoid Payment
of Republican Campaign
Assessment.
SOME KEYSTONE sTRATEGy

The Board of Trade and other
civic bodies are finally arriving at
the bottom of the trouble concern
ing the street car strike, and when
they strike bottom they will find
that the trouble is one that has been
tipped off in these columns for the
past eighteen months. The resolu-
tions adopted by the Board of Trade
and indorsed by the other organiza-
tions requested the administration to
swear in 500 or 1000 more police.
That is where the mistake is made.
The resolution should have called
for some real police instead of the
present aggregation of Keystone
comedy performers that have been
wished on the community by the
Hert-Searcy machine. But at that
the Board of Trade is beginning to
strike pay dirt when it complains OF
the police, as the members OF the
board or any other gathering of citi-
Gems will find that our troubles will
not end with the end of the street
car strike, as we Will still have the
punk police department. We will
still have the holdups. assaults. au-
tomobile thefts, etc. without any
help from the keystone police. un-
less the Board of Trade and others
resolute some more and shame the
near Mayor and Chairman Bur-
Iingame into giving us few real
coppers.
To add to the miseries of our
near Mayor. the committee from the
Board of Trade was headed by
Brother Tom" President of that
body, and all in all this was a pref
ty bad pill for the reform" admin
istration to swallow. Just when
Burlingame, Johnson and our noble
Shelbyville Chief were addressing
church congregations and ladiing out
press stuff about how we'll the Key
stone boys were doing during the
strike. here comes the Board of
Trade, composed principally of Re
publicans, and adopts resolutions
calling for some real police. Smithy
and Paul became real peeved at the
committee, and said they were tired
Of getting resolutions about what TO
do" and Paul even went further and
compared the committee to- that
boisterous gathering who marched on
the City Hall and frightened the
poor old keystone coppers out of a
years growth. Do you notice that
every time a committee visits the
near Mayor with pointed questions
he calls in Matt Chiffon. Paul Bur
lingame, Chief Petty, and sometimes
the retired Davy Rose. as II he was
afraid to meet the issue himself
Now here is real tip for the
Board of Trade or anyone else who
wants to get at the kernel of things.
Stay away from the near Mayor and
call on Ches Searcy. who is the real
Mayor and boss of Louisville. Ches
has been playing the slicker role
lately of sidestepping the car strike.
SO as not to hurt the chances OF
Howdy Ed Morrow, the machine can
didate for Governor. but those that
want action should corner him. He
makes all of the appointments that
are made, runs the Sinking Fund,
handles all the Republican funds,
keeps track OF all moneys that the
poor old Keystone police and "hick''
fremen kick in every month, and
yet when an issue like the street car
strike comes up he sneaks of and
let's poor old Smithy bear the brunt
and get all the hard knocks and
abuse from both sides. The strike Is
on six weeks and no one knows on
which side our real Mayor is, while
the near Mayor has been on every
side. One OF the real funny things