Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1919-09-27
Delivers Telling Speech That En-
thuses the Democracy of
Kentucky.
Draws Fire and Exposes Hypocrisy
of Courier-Journal and
Times.
Boss Hert Wants Vice Presidential
Nomination Of G.. o. p.
Next Year.
PUTS BALLARD ON DEFENSE.

Not only Democrats but all classes
of voters are still talking about the
stirring speech of Chairman Tom
Rhea. of the State Campaign Com
mittee, which he delivered at
Hopkinsville last Saturday, and to
saw that he has stirred UP the
opposition is putting it mildly. Mr..
Rhea's speech was a surprise, COM
ing without any preliminary an
nouncement and he carried the fight
to the Hert-Searcy- Morrow crowd in
a manner that has enthused the
Democratic workers and voters. But
this, best features of all was that
Chairman Rhea drew blood from the
Bingham press, Mr.. Hert's CHIEF AID
in his fight to elect Morrow. Stung
to the quick by the expose OF Hert's
aspiration to deliver Kentucky into
his hands for political purposes the
Courier-Journal comes out Tuesday
with a covert attack on Mr.. Rhea's
address and hypocritically pleads for
speakers in this campaign not TO
indulge in personalities. In other
words Mr.. Bingham and his sup
posedly Democratic organs do not
want to see any criticism of Mr..
Ballard. the Republican nominee for
Lieutenant Governor, because OF. his
confession that he is charging the
people of his own State $1.1O more
for flour than the residents Of far
off Louisiana and other districts.
Nor do they want to see any
criticism of Boss Hert and his hand
picked candidate Morrow.
The Republican machine all along
knew that Morrow, the typical
machine politician, needed aid TO go
before the voters and to camouflage
mis- candidacy they nominated Mr..
Ballard for Leutenants Governor to
bolster up his chances, figuring that
the announcement of the sterling
business man." ETC., etc, would turn
the trick. So the expose of Ballard's
profiteering at the expense OF the
householders and people OF Ken
lucky has created so much wide
spread indignation and comment
that the Hert-Searcy machine mas
now found itself in the role OF
defender for both Morrow and
Ballard, and seeing the corner in
which the machine was placed the
Bingham press has thrown aside all
caution and is now attempting to
stem the tide of criticism leveled not
only at Morrow and Ballard, but
comes to the rescue of Hert and
Searcy.
Just as contended in the columns
of the Kentucky Irish American for
some time, the Bingham press is
now exposed in its true colors as
first aid to Hert and his political
fortunes. and incidentally this paper
was the first i'm the State to expose
the double-dealing of the Courier
Journal and Times. 1t is is refresh
ing to note that the Democratic
press and the Democratic party
followers throughout the State have
awakened to the treachery and II
is apparent to every one that the
Bingham press is being forced into
a corner. The Courier-Journal and
Times are being rapidly forced into
a position where they will have TO
declare and prove allegiance to the
Democratic party or go over body
and breeches into the camp OF their
new found friend, Republican Boss
Hert, lately of Indiana. Mr.. Hert
is not worrying over the desirability
of Morrow as Governor OF Kentucky,
or whether the people of Kentucky
would prosper under his reign. But
Boss Hert wants Kentucky in the
Republican column to enable him TO
90 before the Republican national
convention next year and secure the
Vice Presidential nomination. To
that end campaign barrel of I'M
limited proportions will be used In
Kentucky the coming election. The
Bingham press will lend aid to
support MFR. Hert's ambition. That
the people of Kentucky will be in
fIuenced by the doodle fund is
another matter.
Mr.. Rhea also called the attention
of the people Of Kentucky to the
deplorable situation in Louisville.
which is controlled by Boss Hert
and his man Friday. A joke adj
ministration of misfit reformers
conduct our city and county gov
eminent. The State Fair, of which
every Kentuckian is proud. was
made a miserable failure and fizzle
by the mishandling of the street
car strike here. The negro vote is
coddled here through the free reign
of bootlegging joints and crap
games. White women are assaulted.
negroes have been murdered In
gambling Joints with no arrests. and
right today the paid employees Of the
city are rounding up a huge negro
vote through precinct canvasses,
and this done at the expense of the
nj a.