The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-10
EYES ON MAYORS JOB
SEVERAL CITIZENS WANT TO BE MoNTG0MERY'S EXECUTIVE.
James T. Andrew, J. H. Hartley and B. J. Meyer are Candidates and Alderman Anderson Says
 He May Run.

Notwithstanding the city primary to
 nominate a Mayor of Montgomery will
 not be held until next April, there are
 several avowed candidates for Mayor
 Among these are James T. Andrew, J. II.
 Hartley and Emil J. Meyer. There will
 undoubtedly be others. 5 NO one of these candidates has begun
 an active canvas save Mir. Andrew, who
 says he Is in the race for Mayor until the polls close and he is elected or defeated. l am candidate for Mayor" said MT. Andrew last night 'and will remain
 one until I am defeated or elected.
 have never held public office but should the people of Montgomery see fit to elect
 me Mayor of the city. think I can do as much or more for them than any oth-
 CT candidate. I intend to make my race
 in perfectly upright manner, and if
 l see l am compelled to buy single vote,
 I do not want the office. am business man and my chief idea in becoming a candidate for the mayoraIty Is that should
 l be elected. believe I could bring Mopt- | gomery's finances up from the state they are now in. l intend to do no dirty po- litical work ,and will make no promises until am in office.'
 Mir. Andrew is a business man, and was formerly paymaster of the Plant | System.
 J. 1T. Hartley, Alderman from Ward | ,, said:
 T am candidate for Mayor, but am | as yet making no canvass for the offlce l have served the city eleven years as an Alderman, and think I deserve the en- | dorsement of the people. I know the ins and outs of the city government very | thoroughly. and I think that can make good Mayor. I do not intend to make any canvas until later on, but to all my friends who have asked me if I would
 make the race I have answered that would. Every time I have asked the people of my ward for one of the alder
 manic places. they have given me larger vote than the time before, and I have never received a small vote"
 MT. Hartley is proprietor of the boiler works which bears his name. Emil J. Meyer, formerly Alderman from Ward 2, said:
 While 1t is rather premature to an-
 nounce my candidacy for Mayor, I Twill
 say that it Is my present intention to be-
 come a candidate after Christmas Many
 of my friends have urged me to become a
 candidate, and to all their inquiries l
 have replied that am making no canvas.
 but will probably do so after Christmas.
 I have served the city as Alderman sev-
 eral terms, and have for some time been
 on the Board of Education. It Is with the belief that I can make the city an
 efficient officer that I will become a can didate."
 Mir. Meyer is a wholesale whiskey dealer.
 c. P. Anderson, Alderman from Ward
 1, said he might become a candidate for Mayor."I am not now a candidate for Mayor" said MT. Anderson. but prob- ably will become one in few months | before the primary. Many of my friends
 have urged me to enter the race, but If go into 1t, am going i1 to win. and will take a careful look over the field before
 l announce my candidacy"
 Mir Anderson Is in the wholesale and l retail coal business.
 John c. Crommelin, former Mayor of Montgomery, has been repeatedly urged i to enter the race for Mayor When tn- | terviewed, MT. Crommelin said he was
 too busy with other business to take up
 the mayoralty question. Later, in the
 winter, he said, he might have something
 to say, but for the present he did not | care to discuss 1t.
 Mir Crommelin is one of the foremost citizens of Montgomery and should he | become a candidate for Mayor the cam | paign would be interesting. The prospects are for warm munich l pal contest next spring
 Mayor Joseph has served two terms and | has announced that when his term ex-
 pires he will retire from active politics.