LEAD IS TAKEN
BY REPUBLICAN
POU1KAl LW8 TO AlSO FORM
fARllSlfY fOR MAYOR &ROOPS III mY
Samu I Petri, ener,etic po- tiviti8 oI his brother John
litical leader. who in the Petrie, well-known, hard-hit,
cuben>atorial election oI last ling. Demouatic leader. became
November. refused to , i v dlsgu.sted and disgruntled, as
support to the Republican can- the r8UIt of alleged actiOllS
clidate, but instead orpnized aimed at him. after the dele"t oI
aDd led a cont:inceDcy of race John Fred Williams. whom
voters to polls in support of th Petrie ~upported in the primary
Democratic candidate, th now race agaiMt Eldon Dummit,
Governor Earl Clements, an- Republican candidate who was
lIOunced to The Leader this deleatet by Clements in the
week, that be will within the general eleet.ion. And
next few d~'s, talle the lead in carried out a program threat
forroin& !'ruman and Barkley ~t the Republican leaden
Republiean clubs in the city which friends who knew him as
and ~te. for Presldent and a staunch Republican, felt that
Vice Pffsident, respeebvely, and he would not follow.
Farnsley for Mayor groups III Petrie is credited with domg
the city. more than any other single per-
PetrIe. who over the years son to bring about the defeat
bas been recogniZt'd as one o( of the Republican ticket in
the strongest Republican lead- Louisville and Jefferson County
en in this seetion. and has en- last November. and It was just
joyed working vigorously for a few weeks after the election
the election of Republican Party that he ret.'eived an apPOint'
candidates to the same measure ment as a State officer with the
whicb has cbaracteriud the ae- Alcohol Beverage Control.
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LOCAl - STATE - OTail.' S¢
·WHY PAY MOREl
MORTON HEADS G.O.P. FUND DRI E
IS A BROTHER
OF CONGRESSMAN
PRESIDENT OF BALLARD AN~ BALLARD
(OMPANY TO RAISE CAMPA
Rogers C. B. Morton. pres. i-I in t ~ Kentuck~' }It,tel in LOClls
dt'nt, Ballard & Ballard Com- vtlll
pany, Louisville. has been "p- Morton pointed out that ~
pointed State Finance Chairman only thing that Gill defeat the
,.f thE' Republican Campalgn I Republican part. th.t:s fall ""
By DeWITT ALCCRK I reign was broken. The colored Fund in Kentucky, accordmg t . on.' confidenc~ . WIth Senator
Memphis. Aug. 12 - E. H. voters remembered the Colum- an announcement made b~' ! Barklpy spc:lrhendlJlg the Dem-i:~:~~:
t~ ~~~ ~~ I ~;:;.,:e~. ;:~~':no":~~;::y~ President of Ballard and Bal- James /Park. Lexington, Chair-\ oeratic C3!llpaign IJ1 Kentucky
lard Company, who has been man oi the Republican State ?" "andidate for "1,,,-' president,
~::.at 5~e:;:t ~:....~u:.;t~! ~,'z!,':;. ~~t N~~nt Negro d- I appoint..>d State .Finance Chair- Centr CommIttee and Russell It would be folly fo. anyone 'toI
.....~.. .,. - lfI:ln tor .he R
ernor with Crump's backing. membered the boss system un- Tbru.