Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-07
WARM FIGHT IS ON
AT SANTA MONICA
THREE IN RACE Fer MAYORS
CHAIR CLAIM VICTORY
Two Women of Bay City Making Hot
Campaign for Places on
the School
Board
Issecial 10 The Herald

ESPECIAL TO Inc Herald
SANTA MONICA, Dec 6.-On the eve
Of the impending municipal election,
friends of r. II. Dudley. the incum-
bent, DR.. p S. Lindsey and Roy Jones,
candidates for mayor, are all claiming
victory for their leaders. The casting
of ballots tomorrow in seven voting
precincts will mark the close of what
IS considered the most unusual cam
paign in the history of Santa Monica.
Throughout the thirty days of cleo
tioneering on the part of the numer-
Gus candidates, the fight has been
waged directly around the candidates
for mayor to the apparent disregard
of the men seeking election 10 the sew
en- places on the council.
Although friends of each mayoralty
candidate are confident of their vic
tory, little money is said to have been
put up on the election because of the
close race that has been run by the
three leading aspirants from the begin
ming and the consequent uncertainty
of the result when votes are counted.
Dollard Out of Race
Major Robert Dollard has long since
been considered out of the race into
which he entered as a sort of dark
horse with a platform whose principal
plank read: mo salary for mayor
Dollard, at n recent meeting of voters,
came out openly in favor of Jones and
since then he has not been making
an active campaign for himself.
The vote north of Fremont avenue,
which is considered the boundary line
between the north side" and the
south side" was admitted to be split
about evenly among Jones, Lindsey
and Dudley. with the balance slightly
in favor of. the former. South of Fire
mont, Dudley tonight was thought to
hold the best prospects Of any of the
candidates. due to persistent campaign
ing which lasted over Sunday and be-
gan with the rising Of the chickens
this morning. No one was found to-
night who would predict positively the
overwhelming election of any one of
the three candidates.
Battle in Fourth Ward
What fight has been made among
the councilmanic candidates, seems to-
have been in the Fourth ward, where
Justice of the Peace J. c. Steele, who
previously served as city trustee, and
F. d. Butter are pitted against each
other. The contest between these two
has been very close. but each tonight
claimed a victory with a goodly numoer
of votes to spare.
NJ. A. Holder. according to his friends.
the city treasurer's Office from Ralph
Bane. who seeks a second term, but
the latter expressed confidence in the
outcome of the campaign tonight. Bane
got a majority of less than ten votes
when he was elected two years ago.
which caused him to carry on more
strenuous campaign this year.
W. II. Atwill, candidate for city as
SCISSOR. wound up his campaign tonight
of his friends, that he would win in the
election tomorrow over G. S. Dales,
present assessor, and F. Z. Stockwell.
Hemingway's Friends Sure
Supporters of J. c. Hemingway for
recollection to the city clerkship, to-
night declared they felt no fear Of his
success in the race against c. a. Muir
ray. Hemingway is considered one of
the most popular city officials of Santa
Monica and his friends expect him to
get a large majority.
An interesting feature of the cam
paign has been the race of the two
women. Mrs D.. G. Stephens and Mrs.
j. j. Seymour, for places on the city
school board. Their work in the in
terest of their candidacy has been tire
less and they said today they felt prac-
tically certain of their election. They
have been backed in the campaign by
the various women's clubs of the beach
and many members of these clubs have
got in good work for them. Opposed to
the women is a Citizens ticket" of
five men for which its champions are
advising voters to cast a straight bal
lot in the effort to keep the women
off the board,
The total vote possible in tomorrow's
election is about 20o0. but conservative
estimates by politicians thoroughly fa-
miliar with the situation place the
1900.