Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1919-05-10
Ches Searcy Having Awful Time TO
Squelcb the Colored Re
publicans.
Near Mayor Smith Silent on Racing
Game and Reformers
Wonder.
PENSIONERS FUNNY REEL.

arcy Republican machine.
Ind-picked (not pickled) crowd o
tlegates have been chosen to go t.
*Lexington next week and try Il
arouse some enthusiasm for EI
Morrow, who wants to be Governo
of Kentucky because, and thi
seems to be the. chief argument il
his behalf, he can deliver frat
Ting stump speech" If this lattei
qualification is the best asset for {
Republican nominee for Governor
then we know of many medicine
takers and sideshow ballyhoos who
should be given consideration By
the Republican convention. All Of
the delegates selected are warranted
and guaranteed by the Manipulating
bureau of the Hert-Searcy machine
They are warranted not to raise a
row in the convention, and guaran-
teed to swallow any candidate OF
platform the machine imposes on
them. Special trains will bring the
delegates to the convention next
Wednesday, and it is rumroed that
none will be allowed on the plat
form en- route unless they have a
written pass or order from State
Campaign Chairman Chesley Searcy.
This is done to prevent any tamper-
ing with the delegates, and in the
convention the only time they will
be allowed to open their mouths is
when they hear "their masters
voice" calling for three cheers for
"Howdy Ed" the rafting stump
speaker.
At the little preliminary gather
ing at Bardstown on Wednesday
Hert and Searcy gave instructions to
their lieutenants gathered as to the
campaign slogan, and intellectually
the big and little bosses handed out
some humor. Mr.. Hert said he was
for Morrow because he liked him,
and that personally he didn't want
any political office. All will agree
with the speaker on his last state
ment THAT he didn't want any po-
litical office" as the average man
if given big share in Kentucky's
race tracks, control in several big
corporations and controlling interest
in the Republican party in Kentucky
wouldn't want to hold office either.
It's easier to hold the men who hold
the offices. Then our own Chesley
thought he would give the G.. o. p.
spell-binders some thunder for the
campaign by saying that he had
photographs where colored brothers
of the party were shut out of
vote four years ago, the polls clos
ing in line. Ches' speakers won't
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for topics of this nature. This past
election was featured in Louisville
by near riot of soldiers and serv-
ice men clamoring at the doors of
Republican Clerk Neutzel's office
for their ballots, and in that long
line OF American boys one crippled
soldier was assaulted by a Republi-
can thug county policeman for -dar-
ing to want to vote. Through these
methods of the local Republican
machine Swagar Sherley, one of the
biggest men in Congress for years,
was defeated and the principal aids
TO his defeat were the inability of
soldiers to vote and the unprece-
deDtedly large negro vote, very few
negroes in this town being in the
army.
Speaking of the negro vote, the
Hert-Searcy machine is having trou-
BILE with the colored voter and the
leading element in the party have
gone so far as TO issue def to the
machine. The colored leaders say
that they are not going to allow the
tail to wag the dog any longer All
of this has been caused by candi-
dacy for the Legislature of William
Marley, the colored newspaper man,
and that candidacy has not only
been Endorsed by the colored Re-
publicans in this district but
throughout the State. Marley lives
in a district In which the colored
Republicans comprise 80 per cent.
of the vote and he has refused to
be bluffed or persuaded into. quit
ting the race. The best element of
his race are backing him to man,
and they threaten to bolt If Marley
is knitted by the Hert-Searcy ma
chine. "Mr Chesley" has been
sweating blood trying to remedy the
situation and this past week fell
back on the old moth-eaten trick OF
bringing out another negro to split
the vote. But his candidate, DR.. r.
P. Peters, an employe of the Health
Office and delegate to the G.. o. P.
convention, is being bombarded by
the press here for having been in
dicted twice for selling cocaine. So
the State Chairman is having his
troubles and Morrow's friends up
the State are yelling ''Get that mig
ger out of the way; you're hurting
Ed"
Well, you can't hardly help MOTTO
ing the remarkable change in our
near Mayors attitude toward the
racing game compared with his po-
sition of a short eight months ago.
Just prior to the opening of the
fall races. Smithy was long and
iound in his denunciation OF rae
ing. going on record in saying
that tracing brought a string Of