Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1919-03-29
Local BolsheviIxi Administration
Daze Taxpayers With Oc-
cupational Tax.
Where is Enormous Fund the Her.
aid Told Us Was being
Saved?
KEYsToNER Anglers FARMERS.

The Louisville Herald, the organ
of the Hert1Searcy Republican ma
chine, still continues to rail at Gov
Stanley despite its failure in 1915
and 1918 to defeat him for Gov
Iernor and Senator. In these cam.
paigns the Herald did not confine
itself to a partisan policy, bui
stopped to every vile and low
method in its calendar to injure
Stanley in the eyes of the voters
Baffled because of his election to
the Senate for six years the Herald
now plans to make trouble, if pos
sible, for Stanley's friends and fol-
lowers and seeks to create feeling
between them and the followers Of
Lieut.. Gov. Black. The Hert-Searcy
organ has two strings in its bow
Endeavoring to create friction in
same time seeking revenge on Gov
Stanley for his success before the
people of Kentucky. Then again
there is growing dissatisfaction in
the Republican ranks which the
Herald seeks to cover, and that is
the growing sentiment against the
lG. o. p. bosses planning a hand
picked ticket for November and ig-
noring the wishes of the party
voters and the aspirations of any
leading Republican who may not be
on the geographical slate. Some OF
the dissatisfied ones say that it is
time to have new deal in the
party, and begin by dropping Nor
row, who seems to have an iron-clad
mortgage on the Republican nomin-
alton for Governor. They say Nor
row is the typical machine poll
tician of the old school and with a
hand-picked machine ticket it will
be goodnight for the party in No
vember. Then again what fun the
Democratic orators will have in re-
ferring to the Hert-Searcy slate and
the packed convention and primary.
Well, the whole anvil chorus was
out in full bloom this week and the
poor old Bolsheviki administration
now conducting our reform" gov
ernment is getting knocked from
Butchertown to Portland and the
river to the city limits. The garb-
age mess, the joke vacuum street
cleaner, the dirty streets and alleys
of the Board of Works; the Key
stone police department, the chick"
fire department, the pay-as-you-
enter City Hospital of the Board of
Safety were all coming in for a
good many knocks, but insult was
added to injury when the council
passed the occupational tax Tues
day, which is meant to raise an
enormous fund for the reform"
mismanagers to spend. Much of
the kicking is done by the good
brothers and sisters who were act
i've prohibitionists and fought for
the death of demon rum and the
adjustment of the cursed saloon.
Now that they have to pay for
some of the deficit 1t is causing them
acute suffering. It was alright to
financially cripple the liquor man,
but when the "drys" have to pay
part Of the loss-well, that's an
other matter.
But the joke of the whole thing
is the right about face position of
the Bolsheviki administration,
which from the first day of its in
|auguration has been ladling out
sbull'' about the enormous amount
Iof money 1t was saving the taxpay-
iers, the numerous unnecessary jobs
THAT were being cut out. etc. The
Louisville Herald from day to day
Twas publishing "box scores" of how
much the near Mayor was saving IN