The Pensacola journal., 1913-02-22
John Craft, of Mobile, is the
Speaker of the
Evening.
CITY ATTORNEY
MAKES ADDRESS
Says Papers Are Wrong and
That His Charter Makes
Vote on Recall Easier
Than Se1nmes Committee
CHARTER. ]. Sullivan is
President of League.

That the Jones charter to be sub
mitted to the voters of this city March
4 in opposition to the Semmes com.
nnittee charter is regarded by its ad-
vocates as nothing more than an i'm
proved aldermanic form charter bear
ing commission form label seemed
very clearly demonstrated last night
at the courthouse, when its advocates
cheered enthusiastically nearly every
reference made by John Craft, of Mo-
bile, the chief speaker of the evening,
to the good old. tried traditional
form" handed down "by our fore
fathers"
The meeting was called by the
Jones charter supporters, who organ
lied the Representative Government
league. The league has as its object
the defeating of the Semmes charter
in favor Of its own. The officers and
committees elected last night are as
follows:
Jerry ]. Sullivan, president: Frank
j. Riera, secretary; Philip D. Beall,
treasurer.
Philip Beall, chairman; Ed Fox,
John Massey, Ed. VilIar. Len LeBaron,
committee on finance; John G. Oliver,
r. Pope Reese and r. F. Bingham,
committee on publicity; John B. Jones,
author Of the Jones charter; Sidney
Bell. A. Greenhut, c. Theisen, d. J..
Hayes, c. H. COttrelI, c. J. Oerting,
Thomas II. Johnson. Robert Stout ],
e. Muller. A. r. Langford, d. Coco
rines. G. W. Oliver, p. "a Yonge, 3. J.
Gonzalez, F. G. Renshaw, NJ A. Quina,
W. r. Gonzalez. e. W. Lawrence. A. L.
Rettinger, r. 1. Sublette, Arthur John
son, w. S. Everitt, Joseph v. Riera, ].
B. Daugherty, Joseph P. McHugh, J.
e. Daniels, John Remich, Jr, and
]. Hargis, advisory board.
The names for the officialdom and
various committees and the board
were chosen and reported by an or
ganization committee comprising Phil
ip Beall, chairman; F. F. Bingham. 4.
Pope Reese, John G. Oliver and Cade
Shackelford.
Mr.. CRAFT SPEAKS.
Mr.. Craft, who was introduced by
President Sullivan, as a philosopher,
that has given much time and money
to studying the problem of municipal
government, had nothing whatever 70
say about the charters. He contented
, himself and delighted his audience by
condemning concentration generally
| and asserting that in all the places
but one in which he has investigated
commission government the commits
sioners have been put into office by
self seekers, false prophets and pred
atory interests which couldn't get
what they wanted by honest old alder
manic government and put in crooked
commissioners to attain their vicious
ends. Mobile, he showed, is an ex-
ception.
He proudly referred to the three
commissioners in that place as three
honest men. Then he told how they
have failed to accomplish a single
thing to advance the interests of the
city since taking off1ce and said that
/ the things they have been carrying
out were chiefly conceived by him. put
| through by him and so tied up by him,
IN his business foresight and political
acumen, that the commission have
carried them out for the simple rea-
son they couldn't get out of II.
The work was all done, he told
them, by him, as a member of council.
chairman of the finance COMMITTEES,
ice-president of the Good Roads AS
sociation of Alabama, president of the
Home Telephone Company, delegate to
! this or that convention and general
disinterested investigator OF the COM
mission form Of government, the We
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