Evening star., 1922-10-15
PARTIES TURN BIG
GUNS ON KENTUCKY
Hoover, Roosevelt and Wat
son Slated to Aid G. O. p.
Candidates.
DEMOCRATS ALSO ACTIVE
Senators Helm and Harrison TO
Speak in Behalf of Reelection
of Representative Thomas.
DEMOCRATS ALSO ACTIVE
Special Dispatch to The Star


; LOUISVILLE, XIV. October 14-Ric
guns from the national reserve ranks
tof both parties are to be fired in Ken
,, lucky in the congressional campaign.
Louisville. being the scene of a "des-
. perate. hand-to-hand struggle" will
see and hear majority of the fire.
! works, the elaborate set pieces of the
political pyrotechnic display.
Secretary Of Commerce Hoover wbo
has always had big following here
and undoubtedly still retains it. even
in the hearts of the democrats. who
feel that he was wilfulIy and with
larcenous intent and design stolen
from them to help form the coterie of
Great Minds was to come here il
had been announced. to speak in he
half of Maurice Hudson Thatcher. the
republican aspirant to the shoes of
Keprese entative Charles F.. Ogden OF
the fifth district. but his reported i'll
ness may preclude his tentative on
gagement of next Thursday. A later
date may be assigned.
Undoubtedly. too. the democratic
congressional committee will shin one
of their own 42-centimeters here to
drop figurative high explosives into
the solidly-intrenched ranks of the
republican organization and in behalf
of the aspirations Of kendrick r.
Lewis. the democratic nominee
Roosevelt Popular Speaker.
In another Kentucky district
where the democrats and anti-organ-
ration republicans are launching an
attack on the dean of the Kentucky
delegation. John w. Langley. Senator
James E. Watson of Indiana and The
odore Roosevelt. assistant secretary of
the Navy, are to speak. Young
Roosevelt always has been a prime
favorite as a speaker in Kentucky
He was a force during the Harding
campaign Both F. Tom Hatcher
Langley's oppc nent. and Clarence j.
Sipple of London, who is making in
roads upon the normal majority OF
the republicans in the eleventh. Rep
resentative John NJ. Robison's district
has asked for democratic speakers in
their support. Sipple having made a
trip to the capital last week.
Despite the threat of the opposition
, in his home district, the tenth. Rep
resentative Langley processes to be
! optimistic and claims that he will
win by 10000 or 1900 majority The
democratic nominee has issued a
statement claiming his election by
about 1000 votes.
Representative r. Y. Thomas. jr., OF
the third district will have the ait
sippi and ]. Tom Hefin of Alabama
| it is announced Tho latter will
speak next Wednesday and Thurs.
day in the third district and Senator
Harrison has a tentative date fol
the following Monday at either
, Franklin or Guthrie.
Both Liked by Voters.
Both Harrison and Heflin have
campaigned in Kentucky before anc
are personally popular with the mass
Of voters. Efforts are being made tt
bring one or both of them to Louis.
vile before the month is out.
Representative Alben w. BarkIe,
of the first district and ]. Campbell
Cantrill of the seventh. each withou,
opposition. except nominally in the
former. who are expected to be can
dities for the democratic nomination
for governor in 1923. having devoted
the last month or two to speaking
in behalf of the Dark Tobacco Grow.
ers' Cooperative Association in proc
ess of formation in western Ken.
lucky, now are lending their aid tc
their fellow representatives in the
various districts in speaking cam.
paigns and also helping in the cam.
paign to elect a democratic appellate
Judge, the only major office besides
representatives to be elected ir
Kentucky this year.