The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-22
CITY POLITICS
ARE BOILING
Five Weeks Before New
Administration.
FEW CHANGES TO BE MADE
Gunter Administration VIII Be
Popular One.
Mayor league Contemplate. start of
Annual Report to Tura Over y
Books to Incoming
officials.

With barely FIVE weeks to elapse be-
Mayor W. NJ. league and his adminis-
tration in the city of Montgomery. in
terest Is beginning to awake regard
ing probable denouements and surprises
which may come with the new bunch.
The fact that the commission gov
eminent proposition produced strong
following in the Legislature. and.
though defeated, promises to recur at
the regular session in 1911. leads many
students of local municipal AFFAIRS to
wonder at the result of the prospect
on the behavior of the coming admin
istration.
!. 1t Is known that the majority OF
those associated with the city govern
ment. including Mayo-elect Gunter, are
opposed to the change. The conciu-
sion which many have reached IL to the
effect that the new administration will
move carefully. popularity. and In q
In the eyes of all the people. 1t will
be q popular administration, in short.
Already preparations are being made
for the evacuation by the "ins," and
mayor league contemplates the start
of his annual report of all city de-
partments. to cover the field until Oct.
/, when he will retire. This IL to be
year of the city does not end until
Jan. /. under the Code. The officers
of the city will thus wind up matters.
and leave books and accounts in ship
shape for the reception Of those who
are about to take charge.
But with the change. those who know
of the city government machinery say,
there will be little new blood to be
injected into the departmental control.
The list of city officers who are elect
ed by the Council or appointed by the
Mayor is to be revised but little.
So far as has been observed on the
surface, only three vacancies are abso-
lutte certainties--that in the office of
the chief clerk of the sanitary depart
ment, that of City Physician. and that
of the Mayors secretary. Two OF
these have been filled already the Sec
retary's position by the appointment
of Clifford Lanier by Mayer-elect
Gunter. the City Physician position by
the election of DIR. r. l.. Milligan by
the Board of Health, to succeed. DIR.
CASTOR j. Griel. David w. Grassland
of the sanitary department will leave
the city's employ to become deputy
tax assessor In the ONCE of Morgan
tiilmer.
Neither, in other quarters, Is
change OF note anticipated. CASTOR
Gunter becomes mayor of Montgomery
within five weeks, and a conservative
I administration-not so conservative as
at present, perhaps, but still far from
presenting anything startlingly new,
win begin. TO succeed Mr.. Gunter as
president of the Council. IRA II. Virgin
has been elected by the people, while
the second ONCE, as president pro
TEN. Will be filled, it is doped out. by
Alderman James S. Parrishs though
there has been no declaration of any
one along this line. The incumbent is
elected by the Council
Only two vacancies in the Council
pccur-both in the Second Ward rcp-
resentation, where c. L. Ruth and H.
H. Kinds give way to ]. 7. Letcher and
John Burch. both young men and new
TO city politics.
In the Police Commission there will
be no change. except the essential shift
that comes with the new mayor. And
the new commission; Mayor aunter.
James Gallagher, and Emanuel Lob
man will endorse the present police
force by the reelection of Chief Tay-
Tor to the head of the department. The
mode of naming the chief by the Po-
lice Commission is new, and the eiec-
tion in October will be the first Of
Montgomery's history.