Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1919-07-12
Governor Blacks Known Mountain
Strength Appealing TO Demo-
cratic Voters.
Republican Machine Tries to Bluff
Colored Man Out of Legis-
lative Contest.
sEARCY HAVING HIS TROUBLE.

With the primary election only
three weeks off the candidates for
the different State offices have be-
gun to bestir themselves and there
is much jockeying for positions and
combinations. Some of the papers
and one or two of the candidates on
the Democratic side have begun to
select their own little slate, but for
some unknown reason all of this
class are loud in their objection to
Col. Eli Brown having the same
privilege. Hardly day passes but
some candidate denies that the
Colonel is for him, saying he isn't
on the Brown list OF entries and It
is difficult matter to name Col
Ellis selections. However a safe
guess would be that he is support
ing Judge Carol for Governor.
Frank Daugherty for Attorney
General, John B. Goodman for Clerk
of the Court of Appeals and Prof. L.
e. Foster for superintendent Of
Public instruction. Judge Carroll
'fessed up this week that Col. Eli Is
supporting his candidacy, but put
his foot in 1t when he said that the
Louisville weekly papers inserted his
advertisement for Governor without
any authorization and the obliging
Col Eli Brown paid for them out OF
his own pocket without any permits
sion from him. No wonder all of
the candidates are denying they are
on the Colonel's slate. He's liable
to pay some bills of theirs without
permission.
hA frtn of Gov n1orlx a. ho-
coming more sanguine over the re-
suit every day and they say that
there is one convincing argument
that appeals to every Democrat and
that is the reference to the strength
of the Governor in the mountains.
They say, and it sounds plausible,
that Judge Carroll, If nominated
would receive practically no votes
In the Tenth and Eleventh districts,
while on the other hand Gov. Black
would give Morrow the race of his
life in the mountains, and as Demo-
Gratis know every vote taken away
from the Republicans in the noun
tain districts will be equal TO pull
ing of their eye teeth. AS stated
above, this slogan is widespread and
1t has helped Gov. Black consider
ably. The third candidate for the
nomination, Col. P. ]. Noel, says
he is going to make them sit up
and take notice before August 2,
and hints that he will surprise his
opponents before that date. The
Colonel is appealing to the soldier
and labor vote in addition to the
business mems vote, and says the
only vote he is not soliciting is the
machine politicians. The Colonel is
forming an organization throughout
the State and this past week estab-
iished headquarters at the Willard
Hotel for this district. There are
many surprising results in politics
and Col Noel's friends claim he will
furnish one of these in the primary.
The situation in the Republican
party is becoming more acute every
day and the effort OF the Hert-
Searcy machine to squelch the colored
brother as candidate coupled with
"Howdy Ed" Morrow has gone for
naught. This past week the Re-
publican machine filed a list OF its
candidates and gave copy of the
same to the daily press, the names
OF Marley, the colored candidate for
the Legislature, ana w. T. Merchant,
the colored candidate for Alderman,
being carefully omitted. However,
Marley and Merchant did not de-
pend on the Searcy-Hert machine to
file their entrance papers and cut
in on their own hook. Then the
machine tried little bluff. giving
out the statement to the daily press
that the election officers would be
confined to supporters of Warley's
white opponents and that the Demo-
Gratis would not have one officer
out of the four in the Tenth Ward
because the Democratic candidate
had no opposition In the primary.
The Bingham press and the Herald
of course emphasized this, although
knowing that IL was untrue on the
face of 1t. The election laws call
for two OF each dominant party in
every precinct, and regardless OF the
legislative district situation the
candidates for State offices in the
primary on the Democratic end will
be represented by two Democratic
officers AMI one inspector and one
challenger.
What a lovely situation it would
be for the Republican machine III
their suggestion was adopted. The
machine could run over Marley to
its hearts content and then on the
side juggle with the vote OF the
entire Democratic State and local
tickets. The poor old Republican
machine is sure in the middle OF
bad fix. Seventy per cent. OF the
vote in the Tenth ward is colored
and Marley and his friends are
organized like they never were be-
fore. The machine is growing more
and more desperate and relies on
the cry of Morrow and the Re
publicans out in the State on get
ting the negro candidate out OF the
way by saying that he will be
slaughtered at the polls. The color
ed voters say that II this done they