The People's Choice

The Louisville Courier-Journal got itself elected Mayor of Louisville last week --at least according to the defeated candidate. Raved Robert J. Ball (head of an optical company): "Ball is the Republican candidate. The Courier-Journal is the Democratic candidate. That is the issue." His opponent was the Courier-Journal's attorney, boyish, blue-eyed, 35-year-old Wilson W. Wyatt, crony of Publisher Barry Bingham and rated one of Kentucky's crack lawyers.

Election of Lawyer Wyatt, warned Ball, meant simply turning over City Hall to the Courier-Journal: "Not only has the Courier-Journal been trying to get this country into war, but it has likewise transposed its arrogant and dictatorial attitude in an attempt to perpetuate the strangle hold it now holds on the city administration."

When the votes were counted, the Courier-Journal's Wyatt won by the biggest Democratic majority in 50 years (58,000-to-40,000).

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