Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-27
MAYOR ANSWERS
ACCUSAT|ONSOF
{. P. ANSLEY
BIameS Rains for Condition of
Streets and Defends Sewer
Improvement Work.

1T IS true that Atlantas streets are
in q deplorable condition" said Mayor
CORTLAND s. VIM today in replying
to the charges which Edwin p. Ansley
makes the basis for his demand for a
business mems municipal ticket.
Il am free to admit that the thor
oughfares of Atlanta are in as bad q
condition as they have been in years.
But Mr.. Ansley can not reasonably lay
the blame upon City Engineer Clayton
for neither Captain Clayton nor any
other human being is responsible. The
recent torrential rains which have fall
len in Atlanta were the act Of Provi-
dence. No city administration could
prevent them or the unfortunate dam
age they have done. Mr. Ansley should
realize that before he makes such
charges.
He says that the administration Is
neglecting its sewers but the fact is
sewer extension is going forward in
Atlanta as rapidly as is possible, and
this administration is looking ahead
and building for the future as well as
for the present. It can not contend
against the deluges of Providence, but
1t has no excuses or explanations to
make"
Mum on His Candidacy.
Mayor Winn's reply to the direct
question as to his reported candidacy
for the mayoralty nomination was
neither an affirmative nor negative.
though he agreed that it was generally
understood among his friends that he
is going to run. Some of his advisors
declared that if there had been any
recent doubt about the mayors re-
nomination they had been dispelled by
the very threats of his opponents to put
a business mems anti political ticket"
in the field.
If MIR. Ansey is going to enter mu-
nicipal politics" said the mayor. "he
or anybody else will be welcomed &C
cording to their efficiency. This city
deserves the best administration any
and all Of its citizens can give it. Per
sonally, / will vote as always have. for
the best men for every office. AS to
Mr.. Chambers candidacy for the may
crafty | know nothing about 1t, and
can not discuss it and all | will say
about the fight that may come over
the purchase of the garbage disposal
plant is that We have contracted for
that plant and we have no excuses to
make for its purchase"
In raising this issue of the garbage
disposal plant the anti administration
contenders are asserting the city has
paid a cool 100000 more for the plant
than did other cities where the power
for the city's lights is generated with
out cost by the garbage plant itself.
Answers For Clayton.
Captain Clayton, the man against
whom the principal shafts Of Mr.. Ans
ley's criticism are directed, is i'll and
away from town. so he could make no
answer to the accusations. But the
mayor took up cudgels in his behalf.
Captain Clayton is not an inefficient
officer" MI VIM said "and his de-
partment IS not giving inefficient ser
vice Moreover, there is not an cpl
demic of typhoid fever, nor of any
other contagious disease in Atlanta.
What trouble there Is with the city
streets Is not the administration fault.
nor is it peculiar to Atlanta as the
statement would have the people be-
lleve. All Southern cities have suf-
fered from the torrential rains The
health of none of them has suffered
less than Atlanta's. The condition of
their streets is in no case less aggra-
waited than here"