Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1920-09-18
Finds Gov. Cox Fighting Battle
Against Doodle. Trusts and
Profiteers.
Near Mayor Smith Again Set Down
BY Machine Which Runs Our
City.
Board of Works Needs Street Clean
ers Who WIN Work Without
Salary.
KEysToNERs HAVE BLUES.

Stripping aside all arguments OF
the. two political parties in the
Presidential race the one issue is
whether the people will rule or
little group of old fossil Senator'S
representing big Doodle, profiteers
and. the trusts will conduct the al
fairs of the country. Gov. Cox rep
resents the people while Harding is
a representative of his own little
clique of Senators. The League Of
Nations, the prohibition question
and other campaign arguments are
but secondary issues. Gov. Cox is
a champion of the workingman and
working woman, not the profession
al labor leaders or walking dele
gates, but the man in the shops, the
clerk at the desk or the girl in the
store. Harding's group OF hackers
do not even claim to be friends of
the working classes and the only
message they have for the latter is
shown in their present tactics. Big
factories are being shut down, work
is allowed to become slack and the
workers are told that this means
they must vote the Republican
ticket or there will be no good
times. Thus the little group of old
fossil Senators are putting the
screws to the American working
people to force them into support
ing the Big Business candidate. VIII
the workers call their hand or sub
NIT tamely? That is to be seen.
% IN
Cox is now apparent to everyone,
and the Democratic party is paying
dearly for the mistake of the lead
ers in allowing Senator Beckham to
go before the people as Demo-
cratic nominee for reelection. The
Kentucky Irish American made the
suggestion early last spring that the
leaders who were reorganizing the
party take steps to eliminate Beck
ham as a candidate. 1t was told IN
these columns that the anfi-prohibl-
tionists, the Irish and ITish-Ameri-
can voters and those opposed to the
Haly-Beckham regime would bitter
ly resent his candidacy. To add to
the above the Kentucky State Fed
Grafton of Labor in session at Hen
derson- last Tuesday adopted resoiu-
lions denouncing Beckham's labor
record and calling on workingmen
to vote against him. OF this the
Courier-Journal falsely stated that
this was Republican propaganda, as
the men back of the measure were
registered Democrats. IL the Demo-
cratic Campaign Committees are de-
sirous OF carrying Kentucky for
Gov. Cox and the Congressional
nominees they should Immediately
begin instructing Democratic voters
how to scratch Beckham and pre-
vent the loss of votes from those
who, il not fully equipped, will vote
the straight Republican ticket to
insure a vote against Beckham.
The Hert-Searcy- Chiffon machine
Is gathering together an enormous
Doodle fund to aid lobe in deliver
ing Kentucky for Harding, and Wis
itors to the State Fair this week
say that the Republican machine Is
making the Republican office hold
ers groan with the heavy assess
ments of each. In addition to this
big fund Smiling Ches and his aides
are expecting barrel of Doodle
from national headquarters, and
they say all of this extra money is
needed to take care of the many
colored sisters who will accompany
the colored brother to the polls this
year to vote for Mistah Harding and
prosperity. Their share of the
prosperity means about two dollars
at registration and two dollars al
election time. Speaking Of politi-
cal contributions, Lewis Y. Johnson
of the Board of Saftey, issued q
card denying that he had collected
from the police and firemen, his
campaign contributions coming from
other sources. But Lewis Y. John
son refused to deny or affirm the
statement that the police and fire:
men have been assessed $25 each
and the officers higher. This col
umn will gladly publish MFR. John
sons explanation IL this statement
isn't true. We would like to see his
denial that the police and firemer
are not paying 1925 each for foul
months. Maybe Mr.. johnson doesn'i
know this. as he accompanied neal
Mayor Smith when the latter made
the rounds of the engine houses two
years ago, telling the firemen tina
they wouldn't be held up for poiiti
cal assessments, and we would
judge he is also opposed to these
holdups
Speaking of near Mayor Smith
isn't it a shame the way the Hert
Searcy-C Chiffon machine kicks hin
about these days? The latest wal
the refusal to let him name a Boar'
of Equalization, the machine refus
ing to accept his namesake, ], Ldth
Cow Smith, and our near Mayo
bowed to the dictation. The ma
chine crossed him on the phone or
dinance. the street car raise, thu
Bennett case and now the Equaliza
ton Board appointments Capt
Bennett was Smithy's personal ap
pointee and favorite police Captain
but he made the mistake of showing
up one of the machine graft col
lectors and then It was thumb
down for Capt Bennett. The nea
Mayor said that Bennett would no
leave the city service, but today h
Il swinging the big turntabIe In th
IT, s. n. round house, soiiloquizinI