The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-10-20
Tickets fer Councilmen and
Four Aldermen.
A Mass Meeting to Be Held at 1880
P. NJ. at the City Hall
Tomorrow.
PROSPECTS ARE ENCOURAGING

Chairman Frank Boyd. of the repub-
lican committee, today calls mass
meeting of republicans OF Paducah, for
tomorrow evening at 1880 o'clock at the
city hall, to nominate candidates for tho
council and board Of aldermen.
No ticket for school trustee win prob
ably be nominated by the republicans
this year.
Under the secondclass charter, Pa
ducah will never again elect but half of
each of the three boards-the council.
aldermen and school board-at one time
Every year hereafter half of the boards
will be chosen and this is the first since
the charter went into effect.
Some republicans have asked whats
the use Of electing half of the boards
but they forget, doubtless, that they
can never elect more than half the
boards under the present charter, and
half the boards can stop the policies en-
forced by the present city administra-
ton, which so many taxpayers are
kicking against.
The democrats held mass conven-
ton several weeks ago and nominated
their tickets. With two or three excep-
tons, they named the same men who are
now in the council, board of aldermen
and school board.
A prominent republican said today:
I'VE intend to do all we can at the con.
vention tomorrow. to nominate tickets
Tor the council and aldermen that all de-
cent people can.vote for, no matter what
their politics, We intend to nominate
representative men who will try TO get
a little energy and intelligence into city
affairs. We are tired of the jelly-h-h
policy.
ut is with great encouragement that
The republicans will enter the contest
this year. They feel that the people are
tired of what has been dealt out to them
from the city hail, and half a loaf is
better than none and il they can elect
half the boards they can easily put a
stop to many of the things TO which the
taxpayers object. They can count ON
enough help from the present boards
who hold over, TO do what is right and
best for the people, and will have enough
to prevent anything else should it be
undertaken
The republican gains in Paducah in
the past few years are most gratifying
and bear out the assertion that Paducah
is becoming republican city. II has
long been known that many people vote
the republican ticket who do not register
republican. In the past two years the
republican gain in registration has been
over 800, while the democrats have lost.
This year the democrats have majority
os 37i over the republicans. but their
plurality is only 2O7. 1t is claimed by
the republican committee that l75 of
those registered as democrats are repub-
leans, and il this be true, adding l75
TO the republican registration and taking
il from the democratic, the democrats
have the advantage OF only about 20
votes in Paducah.
A large number of democrats in Padu-
cab never vote the democratic ticket at
presidential elections, and a larger num-
Der than usual will probably not vote the
democratic ticket this year Many DEM
ocrats are Disguised with the present
city administration in Paducah, and the
municipal ticket will be no inducement
TO them to vote the Democratic ticket,
hence Paducah is pretty apt to be safely
republican this year.