The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1910-09-27
Insist Upon Selection Of
Good Men For General
Council and School Board
of Men Without Politics.

tated the ticket nominated at the
city convention today, and that with
out struggle--at the convention
But back of that lies a period of sue
cessful agitation.
Providence uses strange instru-
ments its wonders to perform. IL
was the morning organ of drug store
Democracy, which aroused the insur-
gent spirit in Paducah. The Repub-
lican city committee met last Tues
day night to call city convention
and, naturally, discussed candidates
II would. of course, be the most UNI
likely thing in the world that a com.
mittee meeting to call a convention
to select candidates for Office, would
not mention the names OF anybody
for the places. A church committee
calling meeting to select an official
board, would do that much. After
the meeting the committeeman frank
ly told about the city the names OF
those mentioned. The morning pa
per Immediately seized upon the
names as the composition of a slate.
and then the committeeman began to
hear things.
Business men, who realized that
the city tax assessment will be raised
land sympathize with Mayor Smith &
iesire to adjust the revenues to At
the new assessment and, at the same
! time. provide for the new Island
creek bridge into fredericksburg. and
he bridging of the creek at the end
Of Broad street to connect the south
side with the Union station. avoided
the Democratic city primary and
were looking to the Republicans to
nominate a clean ticket. When the
story was published that slate was
fixed up. these gentlemen-Republi-
| ans and Democrats--became active
Insurgents However, they found no
"standpatters." The committeeman
welcomed their aid and invited sug-
gestions for the ticket. The makeup
Of the ticket and the names men
toned at various times have been an
open secret-thats the reason the
morning paper had no trouble in
learning the names.
School Board Insurgents.
While this was going on new
kind of insurgency also was rife.
This time ladies as well as men took
. l,,a - tho Dopvkffoa, commit
tee capitulated Internationally. Some
members of the committee tried to
switch John X. Ferguson. school trus
tee from the Second ward; and Sam
uel Hubbard. trustee from the Third
ward. to the general council ticket,
intending to leave the school trustees
70 compose the "tail of the ticket, "
indeed.
These two gentlemen have been
sitting on a board that has paid off
floating debt of $4,000, a legacy
from a "tail of the ticket board" of
the opposite political faith, and the
good citizens, who have become jeal-
Gus of the good name of the
schools. put in a protest that went.
Then they insisted that the six other
places on the school board ticket be
filled with the names of men, who
not only are not partisans, but who
will not play peanut politics" on the
board. How well they succeeded Is
evidenced, not only by the personnel
of the ticket, but by the fact that
these peope made a fight to keep
politicians from switching the names
they proposed to the councilmanic
ticket. after they had gone TO the
trouble of persuading men to stand
for the school board nomination. II
can truthfully be added. too, that
! some of the men nominated today,
agreed to let their names go on the
ticket, only after being reminded
that w. ]. Hills. II. S. Wells, William
Karnes and II. G.. Bradley are the
hold-over members, and they are
business men, who transact the busi-
ness of the board promptly and intel
ligently and wouldn't know a politi-
cal trick If they met II in the road.
The Ticket.
Messrs. John Ferguson and Samuel
Hubbard remain on the ticket to sue
coed themselves. In the First ward
II. r. Lindsey. former president OF
the board of councilmen, and always
reckoned as a Democrat, but one free
from political Vaccinations, was
nominated.
In the Fourth ]. L. Wanner, the
jeweler, whose only political exper.
fence was a vacancy appointment &c
the board OF councilmen one time by
Mayor Smith. was put on the ticket
for the long term, with Mr.. E. r
Baker, a man we'll known in the in
surance business, but unknown t.
politics, for the short term.