Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-18
OUT FOR CONGRESS
SEATS IN KENTUCKY
Republicans Actively Con-
tending for Nominations as
Representatives in House.
Special Dispatch to The Star,


LOUISVILLE. KY. JULY IL
"nether they carry Kentucky or not
this year. the republicans are losing
no time preparing for the possibility
or Senator Harding's elevation to the
presidency and are getting in line to
standing in the immediate vicinity
with basket when the plum tree
shall be shaken
Even in the congressional district
IN kentucky where the republican
candidate has not the proverbial
monkeys chance. there is a keen
fight for the honor of becoming the
nominee because this carries with it
the post of becoming referee of fed
eral patronage" in case of republican
success. The G. o. P. policy in the
south, where the party had no sena-
tors nor representatives, was to dis
tribute the post offices and other
patronage through the head of the
organization which could be depend
ed on for delegates at the conven-
tions. Nominations for Congress and
elections of county and district chair
men are the determining factors in
substantiation of claims for the post
OF pie distributor"
In Democratic Stronghold.
Down in the first district. the
Gibraltar of democracy" the repub-
lican candidates are staging a hot
fight for this honor, Miller Hughes,
Wickliffe was first in the field. back
ed, it is understood. by T. N Haze
lip. former mayor of Paducah. who
has had spectacular political career
since he wrested control of the or
ganization from former Postmaster
diSnanSar a.
tronage in the. first under Postmaster
General Hitchcock j. B. Jones, Pa
ducah, also filed as a candidate for
the republican nomination for Con-
gress, but the secretary of state was
about to throw out his declaration
ton to Hughes when Jones obtained
an injunction. Secretary of State
Vaughn says that Jones declaration
did not contain the statement that
he was a registered republican voter
of Paducah and affidavits were hled
with the Secretry of state charging
that he is a democrat. Jones CONTENDS
that if he is registered democrat II
was clerical mistake.
In the second district Erskine B.
Bassett. former mayor of Hopkins
VILE alone aspires to the republican
honor, opposing Representative Lave
H. kincheloe.
No mere aspiration to pie-cuttins
honors. however, inspires John Fl. GIL
liam, Scottsville. in the third district
Here it is distinctly part of repub-
lican strategy to concentrate the hght
in this district in the hope of increas-
ing the party representation in Con-
gress. The seat of Representative r
Y. Thomas is very uncertain. For ten
years now the district has been rep
resented by a democrat. Judge Nc
Kenzie Moss, Bowling Green. who
cd n
gress, predicted while in Louisville
recently that Gillian would carry the
district over Thomas by 1000.
Fierce struggles for patronage hon.
ors also were to be staged in the
fourth district. where there is three
cornered republican fight, and in the
ninth, where six aspire to the honor.
Louisville Democrats Heartened.
It must be confessed that the nomi-
nation of Gov. Cox has greatly
changed conditions hereabouts ard
bolstered up the democrats of the
fifth Gouisville) district. The fifth
district has usually gone republican
very popular man here. as the can
didate and the platform pleasing to
| the Louisville voting element, the
party leaders here expect big things
There is feeling of confidence mani
tested by the democrats which has
not DeeH HOteu mere TIC uclcd
| of Swager Sherley under >combina
| ton of peculiar circumstances which
sent Charles F. Ogden to Congress.
Rejecting the sentiment of demo
Gratis out in the state. the rural press
eulogizes the presidential ticket nom
| mated at San Francisco as one of the
best ever put up by the party. The
democratic state papers almost with.
out exception commend the nominee:
and the platform as exceptionally
strong in Kentucky and predict thai
| this will be shown on election day iT
the political redemption of the ole
commonwealth. large majority OF
the papers espoused the cause of Gov
Cox from the start. and these asser
| that his selection will be more thar
vindicated at the polls.
| MALCOLM W. BAYLEY.