The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-01-19
|PRING CAMPAIGN
|0F C. 0. P. OPENS
Il TONIGHT
)orth End Taft Club Will Start Ball
Rolling With Feasting and Speech
Making in 0ddfellows' Temple
On Bethune.Ave.
Big Fight On for Circuit Bench, Po-
Dice Justice and School Inspector
Judge Connolly's Unique Position.


'fixins," followed by a burst of ora
tory, the Republicans will open the
Epring campaign In Oddfellows' tenn
ple. Bethune-ave. and Beaublen-st.,
Thursday night The beef Will be
provided by Thomas Newton, who
/ aspires TO be mayor some day, while
the oratory will be supplied in liberal
dases by the various Republican can
| didates for circuit Judge, police JUS
tice, school inspector and county
auditor. All have been invited and
the majority of them have promised
| TO be on hand. Each OF the candi-
dates will be called on to say a few
words.
The gathering Is under the auspices
1 OF the North End Taft Republican
! club and will take the form OF 4
Lsmoker and luncheon. Heretofore the
club has always given a banquet In
oue OF the downtown hotels, but the
committee decided that a smoker
would be q little more home-like. The
AFFAIR will really. mark the beginning
of active campaigning on the part OF
NIL the candidates. Most OF them
have had cards out for several days.
but no speeches have been made.
-ieut-Gov John @. Ross will give
bne. of the principal talks at the
Smoker.
The Democrats are not idle either.
Assessor John c. Nagel. chairman OF
the Democratic city and county COM
mittees. is one of the busiest men in
town. getting out petitions for the
various candidates for Judge. II does
rot look as though there would be
any contests for the Democratic NOM
nations as far as the circuit court Is
| concerned The nominees will be,
n without question, the six men who
II have been mentioned almost from
4 the start, Judges Murphy and Hos
n mer, Corporation Counsel Hally,
Stephen ID. williams, Charles T. viii
kips and Michael Lehman. The list
of candidates for the Republican NOM
nations remains the same as pre-
4 yiously announced.
(. One of the prettiest fights will be
that for the Republican nomination
for police justice against Justice JEFF
fries. The four leading candidates
all hive good followings, and unless
one or two OF them drop out before
the primary, which does not seem
f,ikely. the vote will be badly split mp
and II will be almost anybody's Tight.
patrick, one of the assistant prosecu-
tors: former Police Justice Albert +.
Sellers; Attorney Louis II. Wolfe and
Attorney Charles q. Scheibner.
In spite of the effort of the old ring
to create the impression that Supt.
of Schools Martindale has ceased 10
be an issue In school board affairs,
the anti Martindale faction Is wido
awake and insists that Mr.. Martin
dale certainly Is an issue. The an
tbs" need three inspectors to secure
control of the board, provided they
lose none Of their present lineup and
they are going to do their utmost to
land those three.
Inspector Mumford's reelection In
the First is practically conceded. al
though II is said that the gang has
been casting about for man to run
against him.
Inspector Burton has declared he
will not run again in the Second. but
Inspector Goldberg and the other
"antis" who are taking an active part
In the campaign are hopeful that he
will change his mind. Inspector Kuhn
and Eden Small are candidates In the
Third. The latter Is running as an
anti-machine candidate and has
strong backing. Z. w. Cottrell can
be reelected in the Fourth but has
not announced himself as yet. The
"antis" are looking for candidate
against Caspar Snitgen in the Firth;
Henry Komrofsky, in the Seventh.
and against David A. Henderson, IN
the Eight Inspector George z. Hut
ton, Of the Sixth, may not run again
4 Attorney Charles l.. Bartlett Is ont
as IN Independent in this ward. Al
bert Kunz, of the Cadillac Clothing
Co. has announced himself a candt-
date in the Seventeenth ward to fill
ehe vacancy caused by the resigna-
ton of Herman Schultz.
II begins to look like regular pic
mic for Judges James Phelan and
william r. Connolly, who will be can
didates for reelection as recorder and
associate recorder, respectively. II Is
not probable that they will have any
opposition within their own party for
the nominations, and, as yet, no Re-
publican has declared himself can
didate for either place, realizing Judge