Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-03-13
WHAT EACH SIDE CLAIMS.
How the Leaders of the League and
the Clubs Regard the Situation.

| OF course, every candidate that is out
for "A public office claims that his election
is assured. They tell it in confidence.
and proclaim 1t from the platforms at
public meetings. They have visited all
the workshops, offices, and as some of
them choose to put 1t, every hole and
corner OF the city," They are all good
men and true, but at this time the inte-
rest in the race for the City Council is
tar more vital.
At the outset OF the campaign the
clubs challenged the od-Government
League, and made a pointed issue be-
tween their respective nominees. The
answer to that challenge was long de-
layed, but ii came in the form OF n
ticket, which, II has been conceded, is a
very strong one. The league leaders
have been challenged to open debate,
but they have preferred a different mode
Of campaigning. They have had their
workers canvassing in every ward, and
the leaders who met on Friday night
and received the reports from all parts
Of the city view the situation with salts
faction.
SITUATION IN THE WARDS.
They regard Madison and Monroe
wards as absolutely safe, and say that
during the last two weeks the feeling in
Clay Ward has undergone such a revul-
sion, that they will lhave a much larger
majority there than they anticipated
This change has been due, they say, TO
dissatisfaction at the efforts to select
five men from the sixteen candidates TO
represent the clubs, so as 10 narrow the
tight down to an issue between the league
men and anti-league men, but further
than this. they contend that the vltupera-
ton and abuse lavished upon the league
by its opposers has won many votes for
them, and the canvassers have done the
rest.
The candidates endorsed by the league
I'm Marshall Ward are regarded as sure
Of election. but not a word is said as to
Jefferson Ward.
SIDE OF THE CLUB-MEN.
The club-men, on the other hand. say
that they have matured plan for shut
ting out any candidate who may possibly
receive the support Of leaguers In JEFF
ferson Ward, and they are confident that !
they will make a clean sweep there. In |
Marshall Ward they concede that some |
OF the candidates named by the league |
are sure Of election, but they think that |
they will return some of the men who |
are not endorsed by the league In Madi- |
son and Monroe wards. Out in Clay Ward |
arrangements have been made for putting |
a ticket In the field to represent the |
clubs, and the following combination has |
been agreed upon: Messrs j. NJ. Blanks, |
Charles Winston. s. II. Cottrell. w. Glib
son. and F. w. Minor. This leaves of |
six men who are in the field for the |
Council. Those dissatisfied with this |
ticket argue that II leaves the south side
OF the ward practically unrepresented,
giving the north side one candidate-Mr.
]. NJ .Blanks-and the middle of the
ware the other four.
HOLD OVER ALDERMEN.
OF the nine members OF the present
Board OF Aldermen who do not come up
for reelection the league claim FIVE. who,
they say. are in sympathy with their
platform as follows: Messrs. Otway s.
Allen and Sol Cutchins. OF Madison
Ward: Mr.. c. W. Hardwicke OF Jefferson
Ward: Mr.. James l. Smith. OF Jackson
Ward. and Mr.. w. Fl. Zimmerman. OF
Monroe Ward.
Mr. II. T.. Carter. Of Clay. and Mr.. J. 8.
Montgomery. of Marshall were club ia
Torites In the last campaign: the position
,f Mr.. Rueben Burton, OF Monroe Ward.
IS not known. and he is claimed by 10th
sides. while Mr.. James Bahen does nat
belong to the Democratic party,