The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-04-29
MAKES PLEAFOR
EFFICIENT men
CANDIDATES NAMED. FOR NEW
BOARD SHOULD DE OF STRONG
CALDER. SAYS MINISTER.
TALKS TO BIG CROWD
DIR. MACLACHLAN ASSERTS CITY
COMMITTEE ~ LINED Up ON
SIDE OF MACHINE POLL
TICIANs.
TALKS TO BIG CROWI

The demand of thu hour is for
ness-like men. plentifully endowed
with sanity. commonsense and high
ideals In private and public life
men who have good records In the
businesses which have previously en-
gagged them---men who can be trusted
to administer annually 100000 Of
your money and mine"
Thus spoke the Rev. DR.. II. d. G..
Maclachlan from the pulpit of Sew
enth Street Christian church in ser
mon on Tho Christian and His City,"
last night, to an audience that filled
every seat in the auditorium and bal
cony of the edtfice, many of those
present being candidates for council
manic honors in the Tuesday primary.
Several candidates for positions on
the new Administrative Board, whose
fates are to be settled in July. were
also included in the audience.
After the discourse DIR. Maclachlan
was the recipient OF congratulations
on every hand, amors those greeting
him being Jacob Umlauf. one of the
Clay warders who wishes to be re-
turned to Common Council.
Rips CITY Committee.
DIR. Maclachian continued as fol-
lows:
What. then. Is the status Of the
SEP 1t is this in word-the DEM
ocratic City Committee on the one
hand and public apathy on the other:
I wonder II the trainers of the new
administrative plan realized that the
last word was to be spoken by the
City Democratic Committee? can
not think 80. Yet II has come about.
md n r.
whelming veto declared itself the
side of the. machine politicians by
voting down the convention plan oi
/, nominating candidates for the Admin
istrative Hoard in favor Of the direct
primary. Everyone knows what that
means. It means that the slate Will
go through unless the better class OF
citizens who have no axes to grind
wake up and bring out ticket OF
their own. The time has come for
that. The Chamber Of Commerce II
largely land rightly. / believe> re-
sponsibIe for securing the passage of
this new form Of government. and II
Ia the feeling of a great many good
citizens that II il no time for them 10
play the game Of hands Off but that
they should take tn elead i'll bringing
before the people and helping to elect
Ave men who will be a credit to the
CITY and a guarantee OF the success
of the new form of government.
Calls Situation Critical.
but, you say, It In hard to get good
men With the requisite ability to let
themselves be nominated; because. In
the first place. the would have to
sacrifice good business for what IL
more or less Of an uncertainty. and In
the second place. they do not want
- rt.t the humiliation OF defeat
by certain 'ringsters.' That ts true.
Hut the situation il critical ana calls
for sacrifice. Is It too much TO nope
that there are Ave men In Richmond
who will be willing to make sucn 9
sa cr,f,ce for the sake Of the CITY they
love? / know It Ia asking much; but
other cities have found such men. one
~ the commissioners OF Birmingham
Alahama. am informed rave up
lucrative position which was bring
ins him an income OF ove- slz.Voo.
Ia order to become q commissioner a.
a salary Of only $1,000: al do nos
doubt there are men Of that heroic
stamp in Richmond. We have been
yaIkinr a great deal OF late OF the
hAroism OF the Titanic victims wno
Reused to leave the ship In order tnat
~ women and ch"s--r might De
saved. But there 10 another kind OF
heroism--the laeroism df daily IKE
the he~otrm OF ~ -ter r. rs-n
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