The record-union., 1893-10-07
InHN STEvENs

JOHN STEVENS,
Citizens and Non-Partisan candidate
from the Ninth Ward, was found in the
box factory at Front and III streets.
He said he had lived in Sacramentos
thirty-seyen years, and is 81 years
old. As to his policy, ii elected he
had no hobbies 10 ride or push. His
policy was summed up in the question,
Nv hat is besUfor the whole city?" He
got his nomination, he said. by attending
at his own business. No one solicited
him, and he did not ask any nomination.
lie had no idea that he was thought OF
Tor the place. As to license, he recog-
niZed the liquor business as legalized,
and that it should pay a license OF course.
he thought the present rate about right
/ Circumstances might arise justitying
lowering or raising it, but he thought IU
about the right thing as it is. The new
charter he thought good document, and
one that viii be of great benefit to the
city; good men got it UP, and If admins
| tered by good men it must be general
| benefit.
| S. b. SMITH,
Citizens and Non-Partisan nominee for
| Trustee from the Sixth Ward, is q real
estate agent. He said he was 5S years
ola and had been living in Sacra-
mento since 1869. He had been Public
I =
lltlcal life. He was one Of the free
holders who framed the charter. He had
given, IN consequence, much study to
/ municipal governmental difficult prob
lem. His policy, ii elected, would be to
carry out the charter intentions, as eX-
/ pressed III the instrument, and to favor
/ ali things for city interests. and oppose
all that he deemed bad for the people.
lie had been a Republican always. He
knew nothing of his nomination until he
/ read OF the matter in the paper. lie had
| not sought the nomination, nor had any
| one urged him TO work for nomination.
| de had been asked by some personal
! friends If he would run if given nOmi-
nation, and after thinking it over he an
swered, possibly" and then prob
| ably" lie faVors leaving license as II is.
lie wants license to be moderate, and it
is about right now. He had come to con-
slider whether high license gives the re-
suits claimed-closing the deadialls, and
now he feared that il did not. The now
charter will prove beneficial to the city
and all its people il administered by
honest and capable men. Some things in
the charter he had opposed, but he agreed
/ finally to sign 1t, and yielded to the iudg-
ment Of the majority. But the charter
will be Of no use if not honestly, sincerely
executed.
! a. NJ. SMITH.
Republican nominee from the Fifth
! Ward for Trustee said that he is a
! plumber and merchant in that ine. He
! is aged 81, and his interests are III Sacra-
nento. He had no special line of policy
i'll view if elected, but generally was for
whatever should seem to him best for all,
under the new system. He had been q
! Republican all his manhood life. He
owed his nomination TO that party. When
the new chartertwasa adopted t.ri6ndsin his
ward told him they proposed that he
! should run for Trustee. He thought
little about it. When the time came to
! select candidates. they again came 10 him
and he consented to allow his name to be
! presented. Il did not try very hard to
get the nomination." said Mr.. Smith. He
| had not looked into the license question.
! He believed in good license. Thinks
the charter the will of the people, and to
| be respected and enforced as such. In
some things it is better than the DID, in
some it is doubtful, perhaps. He liked
it because there are fewer elective offices
under 1t. But it puts much power in
one mans hands. Generally though, be
] thought it would prove benefit TO the
city, bat it depended on how it was to be
carried out.
II. CLAY CHAPMAN,
Republican nominee for Trustee from
the Sixth Ward, is a sign painter.
lie said he had been, and still
is School Director and Is an Assembly
man now. He is 10 years of age, has
! lived i'll sacramento all his life, in fact.
AS policy if elected, he had none not
covered by belief III Improvement and
| forward movement for the city Es-
peclally he thought that new system of
sewerage should have very early atten-
ton. He got his nomination from the
Republicans. He had always been a
| IL I "a IL IL.
nation. People in his ward asked him
! if he would run and he consented. Not
| only Republicans but Democrats urged
! him to stand in, and he did so openly
AS to license he believed in a fair one,
not in exorbitant rates. He would not
| favor lowering the present rate; saw no
need for that. AS TO the charter, he be-
! lieVed in it, worked and voted for ii, and
thought 1t better than the old system,
and he wanted to see it faithfully admin
! istered.
II. WACHHoRST,
Republican nominee for Trustee from
! the First Ward, a iewelry and dia-
mond merchant, said he came here
/ in May, 1850, and is 81 years of age.
! He had no special policy to push if elect
ed. but generally would try to carry out
all measures he thought for the benefit of
the city. He favored Improvement, but
did not want to see it pushed too much in
dull times. He was Republican and
! had been from the beginning OF the party.
! Without his knowledge or consent he had
! been nominated. He was not at the con-
vention, even. He had never been in
politics, or had any Office. or applied for
any TO any one. AS to licenses, he
| thought the present rate fair. He would
not vote to reduce that rate. He believed
the new charter good thing; he liked it
much and believed it 6 great improve
menG.
JOSEPH HOPLEY,
Republican nominee for Trustee from
the Second Ward, declined to give any
information.
"But, Mr.. Hopley, there are plenty OF
neopIe whoare voters who do not know
the candidates, and it is right to give
them information of the men who ask for
their yOtesD