Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1919-02-22

years it was contended in these
columns that Haly was an overrated
politician and that without Beck
ham, his chief asset, he was small
fry. With the dropping of the pro-
hibition question and the entire
Democratic party falling in behind
Beckham, Haly has been left out
in the cold and he has met with
poor success in trying to bring out
Gubernatorial candidate of his
own. Prof Cherry, Lieut.. Gov.
Black or Judge Carroll will be the
nominee and either will have plain
sailing in defeating Morrow and
the hand-picked State ticket of the
Republicans. The dissatisfaction of
the Republicans who are allowed
no voice in the party's affairs,
coupled with the soreness of the
candidates who will not be allowed
to- go before the Republican voters,
makes the election of the Demo
cratic State ticket a certainty.
The freedom in The Democratic
gspirants, Judge Frank Daugherty,
of Bardstown, for Attorney General,
being the latest, while Charley
VI tIlO WY - CAPCkbEh
to soon announce for Secretary of
State. The open contests for all Of.
fees are striking contrast in COM
parison with the Republican ticket
TO. be chosen by the bosses,
Well, It's getting to be quite a
dull week when tbe. misfit local
RepdDiican almlnl6tfato oOc9a &
pull off some scandal or expose
that is grating on the feelings of
Louisville citizens, and in the Ian
guage of the press agents there is
something doing every minute. One
day it's the arrest of the society
boys for violating the curfew laws,
the next it's the chile supper and
cabaret dances at the hospital;
then the midnight ride of Council
man Paul Revere Aberli, and last
but not least the wholesale escape
of prisoners right under the nose
of the Keystone police and the Po-
lice Court officials. The escape of
the twelve prisoners, which the
Herald tried to hold down to three,
had all the elements of movie COM
edy pictures and a reproduction
would have been n scream on the
screen. Saving ana ..hammering
their way out the prisoners then, in
movie picture style, went over the
roofs of houses for a square, and
they say that one of them pulled a
regular ham comedy picture by
dropping through a skylight into a
big tub of water to the amazement
of woman who was scrubbing the
floor of her kitchen in a Market
street residence. Another running
down the steps of residence
pumped into a fat man who was
carrying a feather bed up stairs
and they both rolled to the bottom.
You can't beat that in pictures. The
prisoners must have done that to
help the comedy, as they might
have Just as easily went down the
alley past the police station, as the
Keystoners would probably be toe
busy in discussing the "craps down
hum" or how much money their
old associates will get when the
motormen and conductors get theil
raise.
In explaining the charges of Mrs
Gernlein about the Jail, Jailer Barr
said that Will Cissel, the colored
trusty, had not been a prisoner in
the Jail for a year, which prompts
| the question, is Cissel the same col
ored prisoner who was allowed tc
go outside the Jail and act as 1
| janitor of the law building FOL
Councilman Sanders, brother-inlav
of Chesley Searcy? If he is, theI
Jailer Barr miscalculated in his
| Judgment of time as the daily pres,
of October %, 1913, just fou
months ago, contain the story o
| Cissel's wanderings from the Jail
If there is more than one Cisse
acting as trusty the public Nigh
be informed, and if this is the same
! Cissel then Jailer Barr should come
across with an explanation, as h
was quoted in October as sayinl
that Cissel would be out In a few
days.
\ Long and loud were the comment
of the public on Smiths proclama
ton that anyone kidding" the pc
lice or calling them Keystoner
were liable to arrest, and the ed
toria1 in the Evening Post calm
Smiths attention to the fact that h
was aiming a blow at free speec
and the freedom of the press me
} with popular approval. If the ger
> tleman who is drawing the salar
, of the Mayor doesn't know it h
J should be informed that the publ
and press alike can kid" Presider
Wilson IL they see fit, let alone tn
( misfit police department that he ha
Q allowed to be foisted on the publ
! The public of Louisville is payin
y the freight and they are paying I'll
I highest salaries in the history {
3 Louisville for police. and 1t doc
/. seem that II the citizens can not &
r those who haven't been robbed