Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1919-10-18
Pile Up Registration of Over Ten
Thousand to Aid Hert and
Searcy.
Many Idle and Gambling Negro Re-
peaters Used to Help reform"
Administration.
Louisville Herald Drops It's Motto
For the Busy Role of An
Ananias.
SMITH PRAISES PENSIONERS

The official registration figures
just published completely verify the
statement made in these columns
and by Democratic orators in which
1t was claimed that the Hert-Searcy
Republican machine was planning to
control the city of Louisville by an
enormous negro vote. The figures
show that nearly 5000 more colored
Republicans are on the books this
year than last fall,) a total Of
1856 being registered against that
of 1889 white Republicans. This
enormous gain of negro Republicans
proves cOnclusively that many Inn
ported negroes have been brought
here to aid the machine i'm control
ling elections, and incidentally to
keep q whip hand over the white
people of Louisville and Jefferson
county. A walk through West Wal
nut, Ninth, Tenth or Eleventh
streets will reveal hundreds and
hundreds of well dressed negroes
who will not work and have no
visible means of support. The con-
clusion is that these pets of the Re-
publican machine are responsible.
.robberies now going on, and they
are immune from arrest by the Key
stone police. Near Mayor Smith or
Chief Petty do not dare order a
cleanup of the idle and vicious
negroes now in our midst, and the
Hert-Searcy's asset of 1866
negroes on the poll books is the
answer.
The singing resolutions adopted
by the Democratic candidates seems
to have aroused the ire of the local
Republican machine and the Door
old machine organ, the Louisville
Herald. mas been worked overtime
this week to counterfeit the effect.
Dropping its motto, "The truth, no
matter whom 1t helps or hurts" the
Herald has adoped the following
substitute: Wholesale lying to
protect the Hert-Searcy machine. :"
The Herald Thursday said the Re-
publicans welcome a searching in
vestigation of the registration, and
Republican County Clerk Neutzel
assumes the role of Kaiser or
Gar and forbids free access to the
registration books, coppering the
Herald's statement the same day.
Then the Herald brazeniy states
that there is no political assessment
of police and firemen, while affida-
wits have been filed by policemen
and firemen that they were asked
TO donate $50 and $25 to the Re-
publican campaign fund, and right
now collectors in each department
are dmning the police and firemep
for this assessment. Next the Herald
says there is no claim shaving, but
forgets the old adage of "a rose by
any other name smells just as
sweet" The city employees contribute
50 every month to Chess Republican
League, which takes the place of
claim shaving.
In its weak and labored defense
the Herald pulls the old stall about
the Board of Works saving lot of
money for the taxpayers. but fails
to explain why the same board went
broke buying joke vacuum street
cleaners, motor boat houses, ETC.,
and forgets to mention that the
Board of Works acknowledged
recently that it was broke and there
was no money for street cleaning.
But the prize story of defense put
forward by the Herald was that the
local Republican administration
promoted clean elections Just think
trying to put this over few weeks
after the knock-down aad drag-out