The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-07-31
ALBERT NJ ROBERTS
ENTERS MAYORALTY
RACE FREE LANCE"
Says He Is a "Democrat-Pro-
greSsive" and He Stands
For the People.
TO WE'D IF ELECTED
Favors Three Cent Car Fare
and Swimming in Lake
AT Glen Miller.

Is running for mayor of the city of
Richmond n habit OF an infectious dis
ease? In view of the fact that one GER
tain physician intends TO make his
sixth race for the Office, IL might be
termed habit Others call IL a dis
ease, for today another man an
nounced his candidacy for the title cf
His Honor" - ~
The downtrodden people. the
masses and oppressed laborer&
found another staunch Champ
the privileged few have found
emy in Albert Monson Roberts,
declares that he is able to -hex
all" in the municipal election Tt
ing fall
Roberts, so he says. Is ProEf
Democrat. In other words. ~
free-for-all He's for the peop1o
the break of dawn until dusk-e
ing the people Is his middle nan1
If he is elected president OF city
ell, member of the board of wor1
police judge. Roberts says he'll
'em that the mayor OF the city She
be the servant and not the boss.
Democratic In Tastes.
Silver and fine linens do not gre1
his board Far be IL from such
A. Monson Roberts eats his noon-d1
lunch on a little box in the rear or [
shoe repairing store on South Eight
street. He says when he is elected
mayor he will continue to eat hii
lunch in his Office in the city building
for he intends putting all his time and
energy to the task of making himself
good, upright. honest city executive
Outlining the planks of his platform
Mr.. Roberts declared that he is fol
three-cent car fare, municipal owner
ship of public service corporations. in
cluding the Richmond City watel
Works, gas companies and electri,
lighting companies; lower taxation
equal suffrage. and public bathing il
the Glen Miller lake
Has Saved Two Lives.
Speaking of swimming. Roberts de
clares tSat when he was a boy o
eighteen summers he saved two live
and didn't get Carnegie hero medal
either. 1T was this way" he said, b,
! way of explanation "You see uset
to live near Chester and Bill Roberts
of Richmond, with a number of W,
boys were in swimming north of Ches
ter Bill couldn't swim but he dov,
OF the board. He went down but cam,
up again. Then he went down the sec
ond time and didn't come up. dov,
down and grabbed him by the hair ant
pushed him to the surface of the waite
and finally got him out. Roberts is In
Chicago now. / also rescued Joe Boyd
erstwhile Richmond boy, now operat
ing zinc mine near Joplin. Mo.
Getting back 10 my platform, I'll re
peat that I'm an insurgent You cal
tell that by my planks. Who eve
thought of three-cent car fare besides
Tom Johnson. of Cleveland? He pu
her through and so can /. Why wheI
I'm not progressive. l feel miserable
Is Not Socialist.
You ask If I'm Socialist? No
and emphatically no. | answer But
tell you We got to put labor and capI
tai upon an equal basis. IL there's an.
difference give labor the advantage
This world was made for the peopI,
and not the people for the world. Tn
money now in the hands of the fey
was put there at the expense of tn
many.
IF / get that office expect I won
make as much as IL / kept on in m.
real estate business. But I'm wfllinl
TO make the sacrifice. tell you. Yes
sir, make il and not say a word"
viii Even Marry.
Roberts, who is fifty-nine years o
age, was asked IL he were married. II,
answered in the negative, saying tha
il the people of Richmond conferre,
the great honor upon him of eIectinl
him mayor he would venture upon tn
seas of matrimony.
What's your opinion of the siIhou
ette gown, the slashed skirt and sc
called immoral bathing costumes? +?
Roberts was asked.
This is a free country" was tn
reply.