Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1920-09-11
Doodle Fund Being Gathered In
Louisville by Board OF Safety
Member.
women's Suffrage Means Death
Knen to Hert-Searcy- Chiffon
Machine.
Sheriff Ross Hits Bulls Eye in
Terming Qualifications of
Police.
PENSIONERS STOP TRAFFIC

Gov. Cox's expose of the bis
Doodle fund being raised by The
trusts and profiteers for the Repub
lican party has certainly aroused
the American people, who resent this
idea of having the Presidency of the
United States bartered off to the
highest bidder. Kentuclxy's part In
the notorious attempt was told tt
the Senate committee by H. Greer
Garrett, of Winchester, and right
here it might be stated that Gar.
rett will be given no more posts OF
honor by the -Searcy-C Chiffon
combine, as he seems to have told
the truth to the Senate investigating
committee, and that truth exposed
the holdup policies of the Republi.
can machine here. And what gloom
Il brought to the reformers and
members of the Mems Federation in
Louisville when it revealed the fact
that the big Doodle fund in this dis
trict was being collected by none
other than Lewis Y Johnson, former
Secretary to lobe Hert, later Chair
man of the Board of Safety and still
a member of the board. The news
must have also stunned that mighty
journal of reform, the Louisville
Herald, whose motto is "The truth,
no matter whom il helps or hurts, I"
as the Herald deliberately cut all
mention of Johnson's part in the
press dispatches.
My, myl but what shock to find
Lewis Y. johnson in the role of an
assessment collector of $4,000 to
be used principally in bringing the
colored brothers and sisters to the
polls to vote for Republicanism and
reform. We all can remember what
a stirring answer Johnson issued to
the pub9ic two years ago when some
of his police were charged with
bribery of an army officer who was
caught drinking with women In a
house on West Broadway. Then
johnson strobe to the footlghts de-
flying the grand jury investigation,
refusing to give the name of the
army officer, who he said shouldn't
be disgraced, because he was serv-
ing his county in a great crisis. The
reform boys and goody-goodies
throughout the city gave three
cheers and a couple of banyais for
the noble and patriotic stand Of the
Chairman of the Board of Safety.
OF course the fact that the army Of
ficer was q son of Charles +. Huh
lein, of b. +. Avery & Sons, a big
power and contributor in the local
g. o. r., couldn't have influenced
johnson to keep the scandal under
cover. Now that we find member
of the Board of Safety interested in
the collecting end, possibly he
would know that the police and
firemen are being assessed $25 each
for campaign purposes. With the
privates being held up for $25, the
sergeants for $50, the lieutenants
for $50 and the captains for $40,
the police and fire departments
alone can be figured as political
contributors to the tune of about
$4,000. Attention, Rev. DR.. Lock-
hart, Rev. M. p. Hunt, Brother G. J..
Meddis, Brother G. G. Stoll, Brother
Henry johnson and near Mayor
Smith, all of whom we know are
bitterly opposed to political ASSESS
ments, as we heard during Demo-
cratic times.
1t is rumored that the wholesale
collecting of the Hert- Searcy-Chil
ton machine in Kentucky is done
with the purposes of providing for
the proverbial rainy day. The ma
chine is collecting thousands of dol
lars every month from city and
county employees under the guise of
a Republican League, which is a
camouflage for claim shaving. The
rainy day for the Republican ma
chine appeared in sight the day the
women were given the right of suf-
frAge. Women's votes mark the
doom of the Hert-S earcy-C Chiffon ma
chine in Louisville and Kentucky,
and their right to vote came just
when lobe Hert and his aids were
chuclling in glee over the coup put
over by our own Lieut.. Gov. Ballard
and Gov. "Howdy Ed" The repeal
of the registration certificate law
had Just been put over and negroes
were given the right to vote as Of
ten as they pleased and where they
pleased. So tickled were the Repub-
iican bosses that the bars were taken
down ON all negro crap games and
other festivities. no further show
their appreciation of the colored Re-
publicans, Baxter Square Park was
given to them outright and the
promise has been made TO them that
II the Republican ticket wins next
year Shawnee Park, with all its
beauties and accessories, will be
given to the colored people for their
bwn. With this golden promise
dangling before them the colored
400 are now endeayoring to buy
property further down West Chest
nut, West Broadway, West Market
and West Madison streets. to be
near the promised land when the
happy day arrives.
But the blow to their hopes and
the death stroke TO the Hert-
Searcy- Chiffon machine comes with
the women's right to vote, and
there are 10000 white women in
Louisville who win more than offset
the 5000 negro women voters, and
the 100000 white women I'm the
state will rout lobe Hert, Morrow
and their $4,000 negro women