The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-04-27
MAYOR AND COUNCIL
NAMED TOMORROW
City to Hold Important Primary
for Selection of Municipal
Officers.
ENDS LENGTHY CAMPAIGN
Umlauf Ainslie Contest and
Fight on Mills Are Chief
Features.

Six weeks of more or less arduous
campaigning; on the part OF municipal
candidates and their friends will come
TO an end at sunrise tomorrow, when
twenty two precincts In the four wards
will open ;heir voting booths to regis
ter the will of the people. The field is
composed OF ffty-one candidates for
municipal oflice-two OF them seeking
the mayoralty.
The voting booths will he taken this
morning from the basement oe the City
Hall and set up at the precinct voting
places. Judges and clerks OF election.
named by the city Democratic COM
mittec at its meeting Friday night. will
receive from the secretary OF the COM
mittee to-day the poll books and bal
lot boxes, which will be used in to-
morrow's primary. Voting will begin
tomorrow at sunrise, o:2O o'clock, and
will close at sunset, 6:55 o'clock.
Interest in the result Of to-morrow's s
primary centres chiefly about the per-
sons OF Mayor Ainslic and Councilman
Emlauf, rival candidates for the office
OF Mayor. and around the person OF
Councilman Morgan Il. Mills. candidate Z
for reelection from Jefferson ward.
From the beginning OF the campaign
Mr. Mills has been fought by a strong
Jefferson Ward faction. headed by
James l.. Dickerson. Tho latter has
twice attacked Mr.. Mills's Council re
cord NJ public meetings.
The Mnyornity Fight.
In the mayo.uiIy race Mayor .Ainslie
is opposed 10y Jacob Umlauf. a member
of the Common Council for ten years.
and the patron of number OF import
ant ordinances that are now part of
the City Code. Alr. Umlauf is known
as an active church worker. In his
public utterances he has laid stress on
his activity in securing legislation OF
a regulatory character and has pro-
claimed his determination, IL elected.
to exercise Ills executive powers in the
direction OF enforcing close observ-
ance of the laws affecting so-called
moral Issues. He has consistently de-
scribed himself as Il representative OF
the masses and dedicated to their SER
vice.
Mayor Alnslie. as far as his plat
form Utterances are concerned, has
conducted a campaign remarkable for
Its freedom from the reinotest allusion
to his opponent, and for It's sane eN-
position OF the principles and govern
mental ideas that have guided him in
his administration OF the Mayors of
flee during the eighteen months OF his
lncumbency, and which, he has re-
peatedly stated, will continue to guide
him In the future.
The Mayor has yaid particular stress
on cooperation based unon n close In :
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government and the citizens. He has
proclaimed his independence Of faction
or class. and his strict purpose to serve
all the people OF the city, regardless
of station in life or aifilation of
whatever kind.
The Council Campaign.
The campaign for seats in the Coun-
ell in the several wards, with the ex-
ception OF the contest in Jefferson
Ward. which was enlivened by the
attack upon Councilman Mills, has been
remarkably FREQ from anything ap-
preaching recrimination. minor DIFF
nculty between Aldermen Mitchell and
George j. Hooper. both candidates for
tho Eoard from Clay Ward. was ad-
justed early in tho campaign, and the
two enter the home stretch fast friends.
In Lee Ward the four candidates
for the Board--all members OF tho
b5dy at the present time--agreed at
the outset Of tho campaign to make
no speeches and to make no agsres-
sive Tight. The procedure has been
freely complimented. All four can
didates are well known to tho voters.
and an active campaign would have
added little to the strength of their
respective causes. They leave the
voters to choose which three OF tho
four shall be reelected.
In Madison Ward interest centres
In the contest for seats In the Common
Council. The five Councilmen who arc
now members of the lower branch arc
ali candidates for reelection. A sixth
candidate. l.. j. Chcatwood, Is In the
race, and if he is elected one OF the
Old men VIII bo dropped. Mr.. Cheat
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