The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-04
Vasser L. Allen Only Re-
naming One of En-
bryonic Candidates
NOT BELIEVED THAT
HE WILL MAKE RACE
Amusement of Campaign Furnished
BY Possible" Candidates Who
Showed Themselves Briefly.
Wood Campaigning
BY HUGH w. Roi,igRps

| OF the many who have seriously con-
sidered entering the race there now
remains just one who is still thinking
and the indications are that George L.
Ward will be elected president of 'he
| city commission with such remarkable
ease that the innocent spectators" will
get no run for their money.
| Vassar L. Allen, the sole remaining
member of the squad of embry onic can-
didates for the presidency of the commits
sion, will have something to say Xithin
the next few days Last night he had
| nothing. 1t is generally believed, how
ever, that the practical assurance that
Mr.. Ward will win, will deter Mr. Allen
from entering, and that when he does
speak 1t will be to announce his unyield
ing loyalty to the practice of the law.
| The candidate of the socialists, Clement
r. Wood, encouraged by the support of
| the trades council, is conducting a whirl-
wind campaign, and while, naturally
| enough, he is sure of his defeat, is deter
mined to keep up the fight to the last
The First Three
|
of the campaign has been furnished by
| possible candidates, who showed them
selves for a moment and then passed out
of view. John r. Hornady announced
and retired.
| Then came forth M. II. Mcdowell Of
Ensley He felt the pulseless suburbs.
shuddered and turned away. He charac-
terized the aforementioned SUBURBS as a
eunuch around the glorious harem Of
Birmingham.
| The next embryonic candidate to rest
in the gaze of the populace was ". Il.
Stewart He is also resident of EasleY.
At first blush he differd with Mr.. Nc
Dowel in regard to the spritless eondi-
ton of the suburbs. But after an in
vestigation he found that he could not
stir up enough enthusiasm to gearantee
that he would make creditable showing.
DIR. Parker Considered
Then came DR.. John L. Parker. In
former years he clashed with Nj Ward.
He wanted to clash again. lie admitted
the belief that there is in Birmingham
enough anti-Ward strength to defeat that
| candidate. He felt the pulse a number
| of days, and then consumed number OF
other days in feeling 1t again. He con-
suited his friends. And then he an
nounced his retirement from the lime
light.
| And now there remains only Mr.. Allen.
1t is generally believed that he will not
run, and that Mr.. Ward will be elected
| by the biggest majority ever given an
| opposed candidate in the history of Bir
| mingham.
The candidacy of Mr.. Wood will tend to
| the people behind the former mayor.
Uniting on Ward
form. He has simply said that he Is
opposed to socialism,, anarchy and the
inculcation of the rule or ruin policy
and that in the solution of the great
problems confronting Birmingham, he Will
bend himself in faith and energy.
He is not running as a sprohbitionist
or an i-prohibitionist, an equal suf-
| fragist or an anti-equal suffragist, a Bo-
| deker man or an anti-BodeKer man. He
| is against the sccialistc school of pro-
gressiveism, and stands for bigger and
| better and cleaner Birmingham.
| The people have united under his stan
dard with wonderful unanimity, and 1t
| is probable that he is the only man in
! Alabama in whom the prohibitionists and
the anti-prohibitionists have faith, and
on whom, confident in his skill and hon
! esty, they can unite with the single idea
of gaining a wise and honest adminlstra-
ton of civic affairs.