Evening star., 1922-09-24
DEMOCRATS ARE HOPING.
TO WIN IN LOUISVILLE
In Active Campaign to 0verturn
Republican Majority and Elect
Representative.
special Dispstch to The Star.

Special Disps tch to The Star.
LOUISVILLE. KY, September 23.-
Democrats of Louisville have great
hopes of overturning the republican
majority here in the congressional
election and electine successor to
Representative Charles F. Ogden.
The speaking campaign has not be-
gun. but Kendrick r. Lewis, an at
torney and past exalted ruler of the
local Elks' Lodge. has been busy with
gum shoe" drive. Maurice H..
Thatcher. the republican candidate.
who was Taft's appointee as first
governor of the Panama Canal Zone,
is marking time, but feels that the
republican organization. which is in
complete control in city and county.
will return him winner.
Cheered by Industrial Situation.
The industrial situation has much
to do with the feeling of Lewis en-
thusiastic friends that he can win
of organized labor have been mark
edly sore" at the administration.
This was apparent during the Labor
day parade through the actions and
remarks of the paraders asthey pass
ed the City Hall. While the railroad
in some sections of the country, In
Louisville only approximately 100 men
out of the 1000 or 5000 employed in
shops and terminals were among
those winning out In the big Louis
Vile and Nashville shops the union
many sore spots. Louisville, too, has
always been a. mo tariff town and
three of the four newspapers are ham,
mering hard on this issue, while the
fourth, a republican organ, is under
taking no defense of the schedules.
The bonus veto. too, may have its
effect
Hard Fight on Langley.
In one other point the democrats
This is directed against John W.
Langley of Pikeville, the dean of the
kentucky delegation. and F. Tom
Hatcher Is making claims that he can
unhorse the veteran. Mr.. Hatcher
claims he will carry Floyd county by
5000 majority. Knott by 1000, and
by from i.5co to 1000. He figures
that he will get a stand-off in
Letcher. Perry and Magoffin and will
lose Owsley. johnson and Martin
counties by 500 each and jackson by
1000, which would elect him by 1000.
Mr.. Langley's district gave 14,145
Harding race, although 1t went 5000
against the republicans In judicial
and legislative races last fall. All of
which shows the possibilities of the
district. Ordinarily Pike county, the
largest in the district, is from 5000
to 5000 republican, but it has return
ed democratic majorities at times.
Record in 1915.
In 1915, when Senator Stanley de-
feated the present governor, Edwin
P. Morrow, by 471, Pike county gave
only 400 majority, and the forces
which aided in cutting down the re-
publican, normal majority are in the
saddle there now. Floyd and Knott
are normally democratic, but the
others have always been substantial
ly republican.
A three-cornered race is in prospect
in the eighth district, where Repre-.
sentative Ralph Gilbert Is opposed
by DR.. D. H. Kincaid Of Danvilie, VINO
was manager ana secretary of King
Swope, the baby member of the
House in 1919 and 1920. County
Judge Gus Jeftries of Adair county
is going to stump the district IN
overalls on a bone dry and soldier
bonus" platform. Gilbert opposed the
bonus on the stump, but voted for II
in the House.