Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-12-04
CITY ELECTION IS
DUE NEXT TUESDAY
CAMPAIGN so FAR HAS BEEN
QUIET, THOUGH TWO TICK
ETS ARE IN FIELD

There's to be city election in
Olympia next week and one in which
there are two sets of candidates, and
yet the campaign to date has been so
quiet, markedly so in view of the fire.
works of recent municipal contests
that the average citizen hardly know.
there's anything going on.
Mayor Geo. A. Mottman heads one
ticket, the Citizens, for the third
time, while e. e. Taylor, who served
four years as a member of the coun
Gil, heads the other, the Republican
The Citizens has a complete roster OF
candidates and the Republicans havo
an aspirant for every place except
city attorney. To all intents and
purposes this might seem to be an
excellent layout for rip-snorting
open fight, but there's been nary a
rip and nary snort to date-it's all
"gumshoe."
Quiet But Energetic.
the individual candidates have not
been working hard themselves and
persuading all the friends they can to
help them. OF course they are, ano
from all reports there's going on
about as energetic and persistent q
quiet campaign by members of both
ioE nfc cnIf Of m.
paign could be. The fact, too, that
more people are registered than at
any previous time in the city's his.
tory-3, ,273-due of course to the
general elections in November
prompts expectations for heavy
vote.
The two mayoralty candidates are
we'll known to every Olympian. Sc
is Hiram Dohm, the Republican can
didate for city clerk, the Office in
which he has acted as assistant for
the last four years and which he con.
sequently knows from top to bottom
and inside out. His opponent, W. A.
years or so ago from Nebraska where
he had had three years experience
in a county treasurer's Office and 9th.
er clerical work then and since which
he believes qualities him for the jot
for which he aspires.
GeorgeR Bigelow, present city at
,o~liIoto an Tho CifivpnS
ticket, is the only lucky one of the
bunch this year--he has no opposi
tion.
Contest For City Treasurer.
Mrs. Julia e. Waldrip, present city
treasurer, and an employe at the
Temple of Justice, is candidate for re-
election on the Citizens ticket, while
I w. T. Cavanaugh, Olympia's post
master for some Is years, is the Re-
publican candidate, and he has been
making headway fast lately for the
word is going out from his friends
that Cavanaugh will spend all OF his
time attending to the duties OF the
office, as the council intended when II
abolished the place of assistant city
clerk and city treasurer and boosted
the city treasurer's salary to 500 a
month, instead of farming 1t out to
some one else and holding down an
other job.
Around the clerkship and treasur'
ership most of whatever interest
there is, is centering. I. N. Holmes
retiring city clerk and county clerk
elect, is the Republican candidate for
councilman-at-large. running against
G. N. Talcott, who is seeking re-elec'
ton. The other councilmanic candi'
dates are: Republican, A. S. Moore
Second ward, L. d. Morgan, Fourth,
and Sidney Rankin, Sixth; Citizens,
Joseph Forstell, incumbent, Second,
w. H. North. Fourth, and F. A. Yau-
ger, incumbent, Sixth.