Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1919-10-11
Machine Plans to Control Louisville
With Imported Negro Re-
peaters.
Duty Calls For Action From Nom
Partisan Election Conn
mittee.
Negro Crooks Running Wild at
Expense of Our Keystone
Police
THE ROAD HOUSE MYSTERY

If there was any doubt in the
mind of any citizen of Louisville as
to the future plans of the Hert-
Searcy machine in this county, il
was removed after the registration
of Tuesday and Wednesday. The
Hert-Searcy machine by the impor-
tation of disreputable and vicious
negroes is planning to keep control
of the affairs of Louisville and JEFF
ferson county. In the negro Sec
tons of the Ninth, Tenth and Elev-
enth wards the machine added over
1900 new negro names TO their
OWN REGISTRATION FIGURES
OF LAST YEAR. This means that
in a year or two the Hert-Searcy
machine bosses will be in a position
to say to any white Democrat, Re-
publican or Independent to go to,
that the votes of the whites are not
needed for control. With a negro
vote of 1900 to $4,000 in the flu
ture added to the vote of the office
holders in the city and county and
favored contractors, the reform
machine would be entrenched for
ever. With the horde of imported
negro gamblers and vicious charac-
ters who have no fear of the Key
stone comedy police the future of
Louisville would be a dark one in
deed.
The arrest of the imported negro
repeaters Tuesday and Wednesday
with their own statement and con-
fession that they came from other
places is proof conclusive that some
one i'm authority representing the
Hert-Searcy machine is responsible
for filling the town with these me-
gro thugs. The decent colored resi-
dents are loud in their protests, as
they see that a future reign OF
crime will cause trouble and dis
satisfaction between whites and
blacks. Reputable citizens are
ready to testify that there was a
colony of these negro repeaters
registering wholesale with the in
tention of aiding in a crooked cleo
ton next month. OF this there is
no doubt and we now suggest the
proper tribunal to remedy or at
least attempt to protect the people
of Louisville. just two years ago
this month a call was published in
the Louisville Herald urging all
lovers of civic decency and fair
elections. the committee issuing the
call styling themselves as the Nom
partisan Fair Election Committee, to
attend a meeting i'm the Republic
Building TO perform duty that
they owed to their neighbOrs, their
family and their business.
The men issuing the call then be-
lieved that there was going to be an
unfair election. Now the slightest
investigation will show that there
was an unfair registration with the
intention of stealing the election.
III these men were sincere believers
I'm honest elections then they should
issue that call now. The names ap-
pended to the 1917 plea for fair
elections were Thomas Floyd Smith,
Helm Bruce, w. l.. Kennett, Laban
Phelps. Phil Laib, Thruston Bal
lard. George e. Hays, William Hey
burn, G. w. Milliken, David Bell,
John Chandler, George Schuster.
William Marshall Bullitt, Huston
Quinn. William A. Burnett, Charles
d. Gates, ]. d. Shouse, John Mas,
II. M. Gerber, and Edward j. Miller.
OF the above named committee Mr..
Smith is the near Mayors brother;
Thruston Ballard the Republican
nominee for Lieutenant Governor:
Huston Quinn was chosen Judge of
the Court of Appeals by the G.. o.
p. machine; Edward J. Miller is on