The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-22
TEN new MEASEEK
SEATS. IN COUNCIL
Fifteen Members Voluntarily Re-
tire From Public
Life.
THE FOLLOWER ALDERMEN
Seven Members of City Council
Now Aspire to Administra-
tive Board.

Forty candidates have entered tho
race Tor the twenty-one seats in the
City Council to be Tiled at the Demo
cratic primary week from to-mor =
row. Fifteen men now members OF The
City Council have voluntarily retired
from pubic life by not Offering for
re-Cicction. Five members of the
present City Council are staying out
OF the Council race with view oil Of
fering for the Administrative Board
while two hold-over Aldermen not at
fccted By this primary VIII also enter
the contest. Ten men not now ncm-
bers oi the city Council nave paid
their entrance fee in All effort TO win
their way into public life.
Only twenty-five of the thirty mine
members OF the present Common Coun
ell are offering for reelection, with
four OF the oustcd Aldermen. These.
with the nine new men. make thirty
eight candidates for the twenty seats
in the new Common Council.
Councilman Blake is offering for
the vacant seat i'll the Board of Alder
men from Clay Ward, to succeed Pres
ident Whittet, who retircs to run for
the Administrative Board. Mr. Blake
VIII DC opposed By Ordway Fuller.
New Men Offering.
New men seeking to enter the Com
mon toulCll In JcIIGESOn ward
e. Gallagher, Joseph Il. Welsh and T.
{. Davidson. All of the ten candidates
In new Madison Ward are now mem
bers of the City Council-seven nov
ia the Council and three IN the Board
OF Aldermen.
The following men voluntarily retire
from public life AT this time, not hay
ing announced themselves for rc-elec-
,ion or as candidates for any other
office; Aldermen g. L. Cowardin
JOSEPH NJ. kain. James a. Moncure and
Il. G. Reynolds; Councilmcn w. H.
Boschen. Barney Bowman. w. b.
Bradley, l. Il, Brown, l.. II. FERGUSON
b. A. Gill. Clifton NJ. Miller, II. r.
Pollard. Jr., W. Fred Richardson
James II. Pinner. w. W. Workman.
Some OF these have been for many
years active and useful members OF
the Council, and their loss will be felt
Especially is this true of Chairman II.
Il. Pollard, Jr.. OF the Finance Com
seen long service on the Street Com
mittce. The four Aldermen who retire
are regarded as among the conscrva-
tive and reliable members OF the up
per branch, which has always served
as a balance whee! against enthusiast
tic and nl-diGestcd action. Aldermen
Bennett, Hobson and Whittet and
are not sccking reelection. as all are
prospective candidates for the Admin
istrativc Board. Messrs. Gunst and
Don Lcavy. also candidates for the
Administrative Board. are hold-over
members.
Hold-Ovcr Aldermen.
With the one vacancy in Clay Ward
to be filed by the selection between
Mr.. Blake and Mr.. Fuller. the new
Board of Aldermen. made up other
wise of hold-over members. Will be
composed of tho following: w. II.
Adams, John B. Blii.y, +. NJ. Dona-
hoe. John L. Don Leavy, w. J. Gilman.
John r. Grimes, Barton II. Grundy.
Marx Gunst II. w. Melton. John j.
Mitchell, A. G. Nielsen, j. II. Perduo
and Joseph T.. Powers. making a Board
of fourteen members. BY the accident
of rcdistricting, jefferson and Lee
Wards each will have one extra AL
dcrman until the end of the terms for
which they were elected.
In. tho election to be held q week
from tomorrow five men are to be
selected for the Common Council In
each OF tho four wards, making n
Common Council of twenty members,
to take Office September l next. Clay
ward has eight candidates--siX old
members and two new ones. Lee Ward
has nine candtdates-ffve ola members
and four nov ones. Madison Ward
has ten candidates--all old hands,
seven of them living north OF the
river and three in South Richmond.
Jefferson Ward has eleven candidates
eight present members and three
new ones
No Polling Places Yet Named.
With tho confusion in ward and pre-
cinct lines consequent on redistricting.
IT seems hard to approximate the vote.
and even the most confident candidates
admit that 1t Is Impossible TO figure
with Certainty on the result until the
last ballots have been tabulated and
the returns submitted. No list has
as yet been announced of the polling
places In each of the new precincts,
and because of possible confusion in
transferring the City Committee has
ruled that a Democratic voter may
cast his ballot at whatever precinct he
fnds his name registered