Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1920-10-09

of 20, $40 men registered over H.
900 were negroes. In the Tenth
ward alone 200 negro women
registered with the @. o. p. With
the registration showing the negro
men and women far In front in the
Republican ranks then came the an
nouncement OF O negro candidate
| for the Board of Education and the
negroes make no secret that they
will vote for him singly while the
whites are splitting their vote. Will
son Lovett Is the colored nominee,
and the negroes claim that he will
beat the white woman in November.
Furthermore they have served mo-
tice on the Republican machine
leaders that their Republican broth
ers must also vote for Lovett or
there will be trouble in the ranks.
Thus indeed has the negro come into
| his own, and Tobe Hert, Ches
Searcy and Matt Chiffon must now
consult the negro leaders in the
management of the party affairs.
Long ago the negroes in Louis
willie ceased to have any regard for
the. police foisted on us by the Re-
publican reform" administration
and the Keystone police in their uni
form are regarded just about as
much as messenger boys in uniform.
The colored newspaper here remark
ed ssthat these police were satisfac-
tory to the negroes and as proof of
that satisfaction they have not had
to kill any of the present police
force" Here is little incident that
shows. how the Keystoners are in
structed to cater to their brother
Republicans and sisters. Tuesday
Main street car east-b0und stopped
at Twenty-fourth and Main to take
on load OF negro. tobacco workers.
A Keystone. cop. whose number was
IN the two hundred and seventies,
the first two figures being 81, the
last not discernible, looked around,
then got up and gave his seat in the
car TO the negro women tobacco
workers. The crowd of negroes left
the car at Thirteenth street, but all
seats were still taken, the keystone
cop securing his again. Two white
ladies boarded the car and stood
Just behind the near policeman. He
looked around, saw 1t was two white
ladies and kept his seat. This is
truthful incident and can be vouehed
for.
Speaking OF the troubles Of the
Keystoners, 1t seems that Chief
Petty ought to have, training
school for the chauffeurs of the
many fiivver cars that run around
the town and incidentally run up
enormous gasoline bills for the tax
payers. But on top of that the ex-
motormen and conductors who mas
querade as police have an awful |
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There Is no track underneath or
the Keystone driver and smashups
night last week gentleman going
home saw the wreck of what was
once noble little flivyer and a lone
Keystone policeman standine guard.
The cIfizan asked II there had bee1
a collision or q wrecll, and the Key
stone guardian saitE SHAW, thar |
wasn't any wreck, The goIderned
pesixy machine Just up and threw us
all out and turned a regular tumble
sets, by gosh" 1t does seem that
Chief Petty ought to take steps to
remedy this trouble with the balky
Fords, but sorry to say our head of
the Keystoners never even gave out |
for publication that a police ma
chine had turned turtle at Preston |
and Ormsby. Shame on you, Chief. |
Have you noticed the many and |
disastrous fires this city has had
lately, all with the same result, the |
chick" firemen saving the ground |
beneath and the sky overhead. The
Norton-Curd fire was SIPS, 900 Joss, |
the walls alone being left; the Bay
less Manufacturing Company had a
loss Of $4,000 and was saved by
the Salvage Corps, who as usual |
were first on the scene. In the old
days when we had a real fire de-
partment after big fire or near big |
fire the grateful owners of the bust |
ness would give handsome check |
as an appreciation of the good and |
heroic work of the firemen. That
was q frequent occurrence, but in
the past three years of reform
these firemeut haven't received a |
dime as Testimonial. The real fire
men used to turn their checks over
to the pension fund, but Judging
from present performances the
chick" firemen ought to take some |
thing out of the pension fund and
give IL to the people who are losing
money through incompetent fire
fighting.