The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-03-30
CANDIDATES HAVE
SMALL OPPOSITION
BIG FIGHT ON BETWEEN TWO
AsPIRANTs FOR CITY
sERGEANTCY.
AFTER SOUTHSIDE
PIVOTAL VOTE BEING SOUGHT
COMMISSIONER URGES CITIZENS
TO QUALIFY by PAYING
POLL TAXES.

/ With but two weeks intervening be-
tween the time for closing the list
OF candidates for municipal office,
there seems to be no doubt but that
the names already placed before the
public for the various offices will be
the only ones.
The law requires that all candidates
register their names with the clerk
of the Hastings court and the secre-
tary of the city committee within six
ty days of the primary. The date of
the primary has been fived as June
18th. Therefore April 18th will be
! the last date within which to be
recorded as candidate.
Opposition has developed In but two
/ instances-that for city sergeant, and
! that for sheriff.
! Some intimations had been made
! that there would be- opposition for
/ high constable and commissioner of
the revenue, but this seems to have
dwindled away.
Mr.. Walter Scott. whose friends had
suggested that he come out for COM
missioner of revenue, has not an
| nounced himself. and IL was said yes
/ terday by some of his friends that Mr..
Scott ha determined not to enter the
race at this time. No other means
have been mentioned as possible can
didates against commissioners Henry
| Tresnon
Police Sergeant thinner, whose
friends have been trying to get him
in the, arena for the fight for high
| constable, has, his friends say, prac-
| tically determined to remain out OF
| the race.
Have No Opposition.
No opposition has developed against
Treasurer Pace, nor is any expected.
The court clerks are still without OPP
position. No one has even limited
that he might run against either Clerk
&c. q. Saville, of the Chancery court;
! Clerk Walter Christian. of the Hust
ings court, nor Clerk r. =. winston,
OF the Law and Equity court. Clerk
Rowelle of the city Circuit court,
does not come up for reelection at
this time His court is classed among
the circuit courts, and the election is
held under the rules which apply to
such Offices throughout the State.
Therefore, at the present time, there
appears but two contests
City Sergeant Satterfield Is being
opposed by Justice of the Peace Will
bur r GrigRs Both candidates live
on Church Hin. in Jefferson ward
Both are making hot" fights. Both
have influential citizens chnvassing
for them. Sergeant Satterfieid last
election won by less than 80 votes in q
triangular light, in which former Ser
zeant j. G. Smith and James An
thony were contenders. Former Sheriff
John Epps had been candidate UP to
within few weeks of the election,
hut withdrew. His strength went to-
u. IL h.
made q hurricane run, and IL was
prophesied by the political prophets
that had ne been given another day
he would have won.
Split Vote On Church Hin.
A peculiar situation which con-
fronts the two candidates this time,
Is the fact that the former Satter-
which elected him before, is badly
split between himself and Griggs. The
middle district vote is being hotly
contested. one OF Sergeant Satter~
fields chief deputies. former Council
man Atkinson, lives in that section,
and In working hard for his chief. He
is being ably assisted by his sons.
I Councilman Harvey Atkinson and
Detective Charlie Atkinson.
In the ~yest End the situation is
complex Several of the deputy ser
geants live in that section. They
are exerting themselves in the eff
fort TO overcome the vote cast
against Satterneid in the last cleo
ton,
Griggs liz pulling much strength
from the unions. He is also strong
IN business circles. and has many
of the local politicians with him.
Satter1ield is losing no time in get
ting in touch with the people of the
West End. He realizes that he must
n S~s o 1St
The gsouthside seems to be the piv-
otal point With its eight hundred
voters and those votes cast largely
any one way. 1t would be pretty safe
to say the man who gets them may
prove the winner.
4 After Southside Ballots.
Both candidates are striving to
get this vote. influential South
siders are working in the interest of
both.
From the sideline. this fight looks
like the prettiest pulled off in Rich
mond for a long time. The Southside
has never figured In municipal cleo
ton since consolidation. The vote, to
a large extent, is an unknown guam
tity.
For sheriff. former Deputy Steve
johnson is hustling to win against
4 his former chief and previous co.
deputy, Herbert Mercer. the present
sheriff.
This fight will prove a close one.
Several names have been mentioned
as possible candidates. but so far no
one has announced himself In addi-
ton to the two who have been in the
field for more than a month,
Commissioner Tresnon said yester-
day that there were few new voters
coming forward.
] hah rashn
become of ago at this time to get in
the game" said the commissioner.
And 1t also bebooves those who have
not paid their poll taxes to do so be-
fore the first of May. so that the vote
NAV be as large as the city can show"
Three years poll taxes must be
paid In order to qualify as voter.
Any one who has not paid his taxes
may do so within the next month,
and enter the primary, as well as
vote at the general election in Mo-
vember.