Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1919-11-01

lines. The meeting from a political
standpoint didn't accomplish much
as 80 per cent. of the crowd were
true blue Democrats and the Chair
man, Joe Conkling, called 1t off be-
fore all of the attending speakers
were called on, because of the chilly
reception from. the crowd. But here
is the point of the meeting. Chair
man Joe Conkling, who holds a posi-
ton in the City Attorneys office.
made four or five speeches during
the course of the evening and he
just dwelt and dwelt on crooked
Democratic elections and how honest
and true the Republican party were
at the polls. Many in the crowd
remembered the experience of Joe
and his brother Roscoe ConlEling in
1916 when they buclSed the Searcy-
Chiffon machine, Roscoe being q
candidate for Prosecuting Attorney
against Robert Lucas, who is
featured these days by holding the
job of Prosecutor and Chairman of
the Republican Committee at the
same time. In glazing ADVERTISE
ments Lucas has been proclaiming
his belief i'm fair elections and that
he would quit the party IL he found
the g. o. p. cheated. Conkling's
eight of nine speeches were along
the same line.
Now here are some of the returns
of the Republican primary in 1916
and the figures speak for themselves
as to what the machine did to Joe
and Roscoe and how Prosecutor
Lucas was the beneficiary: In the
Sixth ward, Twenty-ninth precinct
Lucas IA, Conklin 0. In the same
ward, Thirty-ninth precinct, Lucas
10, Conkling 1. In the Eleventh |
ward, Forty-second precinct, Lucas !
IA, Conkling o. In the Third Ward, |
Thirty-third precinct, Lucas 80, |
Conkling 0. In that primary Joe |
Conkling was handling the Eighth
and Ninth wards and to show you !
what the machine did to the Conk- |
ling brothers look at these figures: |
Eight ward, First precinct, Lucas 9,
Conkling 0, Third precinct, Lucas |
16. Conkling O, Sixth precinct. Lucas
20, Conkling 8, Seventh precinct,
Lucas Is, Conkling 2, Tenth pre-
cinct, Lucas IT, Conkling 2. In the
of the Ninth ward,
Lhcas 21 and Conkling 0. You can
see from the above figures that the
Searcy- Chilton-Luca machine was
twirling shutout ball.
But get this gentle reader. Just
$50 feet away from where Joe
was denouncing crooked
Democrats and dishonest elections
is the Nineteenth precinct of the
Ninth ward, and Joe was stationed
outside that polls all day. The re-
turns were Lucas 80 and ConlSling
D, and Joe had been electioneering
there all day. IN the entire city
and county the Republican vote did
not show total of fifty votes, yet
IN this precinct there was a total of
ninety and the machine candidate
got them all. Maybe Mr.. Lucas
sould tell Mr.. Conkiing how they put
I over on that day. Congressman
Ogden alse spoke at this meeting
md could have delivered very
hort speech if he confined himself
o what he had done in his years
ervice, but instead blamed the
Democratic administration for every
hing, including strikes and the flu.
lack Richardson made an uninten-
ional hit by saying that Morrow
would win by twenty-five thousand {
Iollars, and when the crowd roared 1
lie said he meant votes. Many I
bought he was right the first time c
nd meant $4,000 of Hert's dollars. S