Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-05
|NOODWARD'S AND
CHAMBERS MEN
IN OPEN WAR
Council Is Rent by fractional
Politics No Secret Made of
Bitter Fight.

Members of council freely admitted
today a long drawn fight between the
Woodward and Chambers factions is
inevitable. From offering olive branches
and denying that any fight was intend
ed, the members of council now are
playing fractional politics in the open.
The Chambers faction is the agrees
sor. while the Woodward faction is, as
yet, on the defensive.
The Chambers faction all but sue
ceeded in working a neat trick at the
meeting of council yesterday. They
wanted to take from the mayor the
right to appoint the custodian Of the
building, because Joseph Shearer. the
present custodian. was active for Cham
bers in the mayoralty contest and it is
generally expected Woodward will drop
him from the city pay roll when he goes
into office.
Goes Through by One Vote.
The buildings and grounds commit
tee headed by Alderman James w.
Maddox, and made up of Chambers men,
offered an ordinance making the custo-
dian elective by council instead of by
the buildings and grounds committee.
The mayor appoints the committee, and
therefore controls the election of the
custodian.
The ordinance passed without any
one Of the opposition knowing what had
happened The custodian was to be
elected the first Monday in December,
for term of two years, at salary of
$1,000 a year.
Then Mayor Pro Tenn. Gambler ruled
that the ordinance would have to be
voted on separately by council and the
aldermanic board, because it looked to
the appropriation of money
new vote was taken Council
adopted the measure by the slight ma
jority of II to II.
It is said the Woodward faction has a
majority against the measure in the al
dermanic board.
No AYE and nay" vote was taken,
and it was impossible to get an accu-
rate list Of the lineup of council.
Locker Club Fight Resumed.
The charges that the fight over locker
club permits was inspired by politics
were reiterated at the meeting of coun-
ell yesterday.
Alderman John E. McClelland de-
bounced the club of Alderman j. B
Everett, the Metropolitan, as an open
barroom and a place for questionable
women to gather
He declared that if council would re-
refer the permit to the police commit
tee, he would prove his charges.
Alderman Everett arose and declared
the charges to be false.
Don't slap me in the face, gentle
men," he said Grant me the per-
NIT"
This man has no right to get up as
an alderman and make personal re-
quest" cried Alderman McClelland. He
has sat here and voted against clubs
that are better than his"
The Moose club permit was refused.
The Metropolitan, the Georgia Ath-
letic. the Theatrical and the Terrace
clubs were referred back to the COM
mittee for further investigation.
On its own initiative the committee
decided to investigate further the Press,
the Bees and the Central clubs.
Council voted $3.50 for a complete
audit of all the clubs.
Urge Three Clubs Be Closed.
Permits were granted to the Atlanta
Athletic. the Transportation, the Pied
mont Driving. Capital City, Eagles,
Elks, University, Standard NJ. & NJ,
Atlanta, T. NJ, A, Turn Verein, the
Owls and the Beavers.
The police committee recommended
that the Bees, the Georgia Athletic, the
Central and the Moose clubs be closed.
The Bees and the Georgia Athletic
clubs supported Councilman Aldine
Chambers for mayor Fighting to save
these clubs, the Chambers faction has
complicated the whole situation.
Whether Mayor Winn is back in his
Office when the action of council grant
ing permits comes up for approval has
an important bearing on the situation.
1t is expected that Mayor Winn would
approve the permits granted. but that
Alderman John S. Gambler would veto
them for the same reason he vetoed
them before. The same charge that
none of them is complying with the
law was made by Aldermen Warren
and McClelland.