Arizona republican., 1909-11-27
ELECTION TIME IN LONDON.
Little Public Notice Taken of the
 Canvass for Municipal Offices.

London-The lord mayor of London has already been elected in accordance with the traditions of the aldermen of the city of London. No noisy appeal
 is made to the ratepayers of London
 to elect this or that man as their first
 magistrate for the year. He has
 worked his way up from membership
 of his city company to the aldermanic
 board and then to the office of sheriff and finally. if his constitution has held
 out. is selected in due course to be lord mayor.
 This high office, regarded on the continent of Europe and particularly
 in Paris. as being only second to that of the king himself. makes a further heavy demand upon his constitution. His every luncheon is a feast. his daily dinner is d banquet. Kings. princes and governors. should they visit Lon don, are his official guests at the monumental luncheons and dinners for which the mansion house is famous. His majestv's judges. his majesty's government and innumerable people. institutions and societies are enter tained by the lord mayor of London.
 Lord mayoral entertainment means gargantuan meals and speeches to match. In this way the lord mayor banquets and is banqueted into the ob- scurity of ex-lord mayorism. and never is the peace of London's city per- turbed by the election. career or off cial end of it's chief magistrate.
 Before this letter reaches New York the municipal elections of London will lx.. .l.. 4 the greatest city in the world play their part and these the local rulers of 100000 of men, women and chill dren are elected.
 The men who are to watch over the multitudinous interests and to levy and administer the vast revenue of this huge population are now appealing for the votes of their fellow citizens. Here we have no selection of a figurehead for the hospitality and charity of the square mile that Is called the city of London, but the election by the people, the ratepayers. of that huge human hive called greater London.
 Even the casual visitor, you might think, would be irresstibly drawn into the vortex of such d fight. would at least be forced to take some interest in the struggle for the government of such city. The talk of the people around him wherever he might go. the columns of the newspapers at which he must surely glance the posters on the boardings by which he must pass and scores of such indications of the great contest would surely force them selves upon the attention of the least observant of passersby; but the reality is very different
 In this mornings London papers the dispatches dealing with New York's 1 mayoralty election occupy far more space than is given to London's muni- | cipal elections. The New York dis patches are not long. but in most pa pers there is nothing about the London elections.
 Even the music hall low comedian makes no reference to them. he prob | ably knows nothing about them. and if T he does he is quite sure his hearers would understand no jest referring toI them and recognize no name he might mention in connection with them. In three ways only have the London mu- nicipal elections struggled into any ting like publicity during the last few weeks.
 on the boardings there is a poster which must have been noticed. It | shows an evil faced gentleman declar- ing It's your money we want" By most people this is taken to be pie torial appeal against Lloyd-George's budget. The two other references tol these important elections have ap- peared only in the lighter organs of the press.
 One is devoted to the candidature of a woman, such a candidature being very rare in London, and the other to a man who has issued his address to the electors in five languages. This gentleman is standing for the district chiefly composed of Soho. the most part of. London proper.