The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-03-03
SIOUX CITY WILL
TRY DES MONIES
PLAN GOVERNMENT
This Municipal Reform Has
Already Been Adopted and
on March 14th, Officials
Are to Be Voted for.
GREATEST INTEREST
TAKEN IN CAMPAIGN
Four CounciImen Are to Be
Chosen and There Are Thir-
ty Candidates, Some OF
Them Being "Jokes."
BY Fred Turbyville.

hoiouA wy, AoS loI III o. uC SOui-
mission plan of city government idea
has seized Sioux City and party poll
tics, greatly to the delight of ma
jority of voters, will be abolished for
once in the city's history. The enthu-
siasm with which the different classes
are going after this campaign is inter-
esting to watch. The plan of govern
ment was voted in three weeks ago,
and the final election for city offices
will come off March IA. The primary
will proceed it ten days.
There are already thirty candidates
in the field for councilmen and of this
number four will be elected. Two
candidates have filed their papers for
candidacy for mayor OF the thirty-two
candidates already in the field, the Pc
tition papers that have been taken out
will bring the total number to be filed,
near seventy-five.
Workers Are EIated.
The working class feel greatly elat-
ed over their chances to land their men
in office, and are claiming vote of
eighty per cent of the city. They are
working hard to organize their forces
and elect the men they have endorsed
for offices. The real politicians, the
men who have held the offices before,
are busy, too, and although they are
not working IN any combination end
have not been endorsed as candidates
by any body of citizens, they have
their friends behind them.
1t is amusing to see the number OF
candidates and their backing in the
race. The papers are getting some
good news in the election field and
have gone so far as to publish the
names of the men who signed the petit
tion. Twenty-Five names are required
for a candidate, but all of them have
many more than that. One man has
been urged to run for mayor and he
announced to his friends that if they
would go out and get five hundred
names on his petition that he would
look them over and if he felt that the
support from that number would be
sufficient. he would then announce his
candidacy.
Some "Jokers" in Race.
Although the ticket thus far presents
some able men for office, there are a
number of jokes that have slipped in
by this route and some level headed
men of the city fear that by the same
Joke" one of these might be elected
One of these men is out with his pa
pers for the candidacy of mayor. He
is a street "spieler," selling collar but
tons and fountain pens during the
summer Another is a man who has
been tried for murder, for shooting d
negro last fall. for alleged insult to his
wife. He was exonerated by a coro
ner's jury after only a few hours i'm
prisonment. The man, by this act
gained followers, who are now readJ
to stand behind him in the politica
field.
A voters Forum has been organized
1t is a meeting open to every one ant
any candidate is invited to address ths
meetings and to give his platform ir
the campaign. These meetings are
doing much good and are giving thu
people a good idea of what they car
expect when the election day come:
around.
A Strong Union City.
The real meetings, however. tha
have been held thus far are those O.
the working classes. This is strons
union city, and different organization:
meet twice each week and talk ove
their campaign. They are the onl!
organizations in the city working to
gether. Although they have felt tina
they have no man in their ranks capa
BILE of being mayor, they have endorsed
three men for the office. of councilman
| and it is not at all unlikely that the!
will elect that number.
| Up to this time the chief interest il
the coming election has been in tn
new candidates that blossomed fortl
each day and it will continue so unit
March 3. when all the papers must b,
| filed with the city clerk. After tha
time the campaigning will be vigorous
Three members of the present council
are in the race. They are popula
candidates and will control a larg
vote. AS each voter in the city viii
| be allowed to vote on four candidate
| for office, nothing seems unlikely a
present.
| Action Of Socialists.
| The Socialists, as body of citizens
and not as political party. have en-
dorsed men for the offices and thei
argument. of course. tends along tn
line of the economic principles of ad
ministration. They too, are eager +
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