The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-14
BOARD CAMPA|
NEARING ITS END
Blair and Hirschberg Address
Meetings of Voters in Fulton
and South Richmond.
BIG HOBSON RALLY TONIGHT
Hirschberg Disclaims Efforts to
Coerce City Employees to
Vote for InCumbcntS.

Two mcctings-a Blair gathering in
Junior Order United American Me
rhauics' Hall Fulton. and Il ITrsch-
borg organization meeting in South
Richmond. in iIustings Court. Part H.
were yesterdays contributions to the
activities OF tho Administrative Board
campaign. Neither developed anything
out OF the ordinary or added 10 tho
campaign material that has in tho
past four weeks been sprcad before
the electorate.
The liirschbcrg meeting was de-
signed for organization purpose.
purely. y band Of thirty one was Sc
'ected from tho gathering to do duty
ut the polls on the south sido OF the
river. AMI various details of the clcc-
ION work were discussed. Mr. liirsch-
berg made q short talk and oth.rs
spoke informally.
In the far East Erd OF the city. at
the Junior Order Hail, in Fulton be
tween $50 and 200 citizens pa,hsrcd In
hear John Is. Blair lay bare again tin,
details surrounding the sale OF the
S'O house on the FeitiS tract, the let
t'nS OF the lamp pole. road oil. and
fee box painting contracts. and the
story OF how Superintendent Henry
Conn. of tho Street Cleaning DEPART
ment, told the men in his employ 10
vote FOR the inns" committing AN act
which. the speaker said made his
Use rUERILE BUSINESS
Mf"liiODS, SAYS JOHN BLAIR
Mr.. Blair WAS well received and fire.
uucNt applause sustained his general
! Indictment that the Administrative
3oard was guilty OF pueri!e business
practices. and that its failure 10 safe
guard the city's finance through eXhi-
billions like those cited by him should
! he answered by the voters By replacing
the two incunbents seeking rc-elec-
ton with men trained in a better
school OF commerce
i have young boy AT home. who
has more business ability than tho
Administrative Board" Ny. Blai,
summed up with evident disgust. and
/ he is very young boy. too"
MI Rlatr emphasized his indcpcnd-
cnce of clique or faction The poll
ticians. he said. are predicting his
defeat This, he said. does not sur.
PRISE him. The politicians don't want
hiu in Office, he said, because the,
kno" they cannot control, him.
with the wastcful practices like
nose cited by him, said Mir. Blair. it
did not surprise him that The board
found itself unable to give TO Fulton
/ Paramount and other sections OF tho
, city the surface improvements which
theE need. Ii he is elected. he pro,n-
Use" the voters he would introduc. :;
system of buying that would save In.
CITY between 100000 and $500 600 an
nuiilE and make possible improve.
.'ch'S "nlct under tnc present regime
l t,,He 70 DC dchieo.
DOESN'T LIKE ICE CREAM
brand or Politics
Mr.. Blair spoke Tor almost an hour
re was preceded on the platform bv
former Mayor Richard NJ Tnylor. VINO
began promisingly with were A
Ilctro or bemosthcucs or even a Jim
Jefferson perhaps | might be able 10
the same key for thirty minutns ,",,,b
to the delight OF the crowd.
MI IiH!or commented scIth!nrly
upon inc presumption of the hea, OF
ths street Cleaning Department in un-
dcrtaking to use has official place to
make or break candidates for Office
Cpon what meat hath this Caesar
icu mat ne hath grown 50 great de-
'h'''Itu MI laNior. drawing with more
U less accuracy upon the