The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-10-01
THE DEADLOCK BROKEN
IN THE DAyvILLE CITK COUNCIL.
Mr.. John II. schooIfield Elected President
After Bniioting Several Hundred Times.
A Novel Method Adopted.

Danville. Va, Sept. 30.-Special.-As
has been reported in these specials, there
has been n deadlock in the city council
since the middle Of July last. After
Mayor Graves died, Captain 4. j. Tai
bolt. who was president OF the council,
resigned rs president and as a member
of the body in order to enter the race
before the people for the mayoralty.
When the council came to vote for
successor to President Talbot, Mr..
Oliver W. Dudley, the president pro
tenn, and Mr. John II. Schoofield, were
the candidate: boil, had five votes, and
each voting for the other made SIX at
the beginning of the contest and so IL
has remained for nearly three months
until this afternoon the council settled
the matter in a very novel way, after
nine ballots. which made in all since the
contest began, several hundred.
Councilman j. r. Watson, Sr, pro-
posed a recess, which being taken he
then called the members in IL meeting of
the committee of the whole Council
man Richardson presided over the com
mittee, and Mr.. Watson proposed through
Il subcommittee that the entire commit
tee report candidate for Itesldent 10
be selected by casting lots Some OF the
cOuncimen thought this would be UNI
dignified and cause all the small boys
in the land to LAUGH at Danyille's city
fathers. and so various other plans were
suggested until the committee OF the
whole found itself in as serious dead
lock as the parent body was. However,
after much wrangling Mr.. Watsons
lottery scheme WAS adopted. which was
as follows: Six slips of paper should be
put in n hat. two bearing Scheduled
name. two bearing Dudley's and two
to be- blank. the slips to be well shaken,
and then the chief Of police blindtolded
TO draw three slips from the hat and re-
peat the drawing until he got two OF a
kind. If the two Of kind when drawn
we're SCHOOLGIRLS slips, he was to be the
candidate: If Dudley's slips. he was to
be. and if blank, then another candidate
was to be selected from the other ten
councilmen.
Amidst suppressed excitement the
blinded chief of police dill the drawing
and on the second draw he got two slips
of a kind. and they bore SCHOOLGIRLS
name. The committee Of the whole then
arose. the council was reconyened, heard
the report of the committee and elected
John II. Schoofeld president by acclama-
l..
resignation as president pro tenn, which
position he has held for more than two
years, and in so doing said he hoped
when the council elected his successor,
it would select Il man in every way
worthy of their confidence and fully
competent to be president in the event
of another vacant chair. The council
adjourned before acting on Mr.. Dudley's
resignation.
The campaign is red hot here. Hon.
John Goode spoke to a large audience IN
North Danville tonight, and at the same
time a. J. Montague and other local
speakers. were addressing the Danville
clubs.
The sales of loose leaf tobacco on this
market in September were 1,2So, IA
pounds sales for the tobacco year end
Ing today, 317071S0 pounds, being
2392. 100 pounds less than the sales in
the last tobacco year.