Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-24
CANDIDATES HOLD FORTH
IN MILITANT JEFFERSON
Ward Famed for Strenuous Politics
Stages Meeting Marked by
Abiding Peace.
sUFFRAGIsTs TAKE A HAND
Soxtet From Votes.for-Womcn Or
ganizatfon Receives Warm We'll
como From East End Voters, Who
Listen to Plea of Fair Speaker.

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All men. The audience OF 500 or more
.hat sat faithfully through nearly three
hours of speechmaking gave each of
the sixteen candidates cordial recep-
tion' and sent each back to his seat
with about the same volume of an
plausc.
me candidates caught the general
contasion and spent much of their time
allotment in the praise Of rivals on
inc ticket All Of them agreed that
NOT IN long time has field of can
didates been made up of men so uni
fornlly able that no serious mistake
conid possibly be made by the public
nevertheless, each admitted that il
would be an act in the interest OF good
government to include his name on
the ballot
MEETING INVADED DY
CANDIDATES. For VOTE
Early in the evening. as Elbcn G.
Foikes, of the Administrative Board
was presenting his case to the voters
there MED in II committee OF seven from
IN. inc f.Huai Suffrage League of Virginia
ne women took seats in one Of tho
front rows and the big crowd chccrcd
for more than II minute
When the speaking program had been
completed and the clock pointed to II.
President ]. r. Day, OF the East End
Progressive Association. under whose
auspices the meeting was held. asked
the audience II II were in the mood to
near an address from the sufrace
delegation. 1t was late. and the pro-
srnm had not contemplated any addi-
''ohal speaking. IF the crowd wanted
to go home, Mr.. Day indicated. IL had
only to say the word
hit the crowd wanted to hear the
SunraEists. too. and il clappcd and
rheered until Miss Adele Clarke mount
cd tho platform and made a stirrin-,
appeal for the acknowledgements OF
women. The applause which she re-
ceived at the end Of her talk cuualed
'hat accorded to any OF the candidates
OLD RESIDENT RELIEVES
WOMEN WILL VOTE soon
tell you. the women will vote in
virginia inside Of ten years" remarked
an old resident to his side partner as
! he filed out Of the door.
/ IheE,ll vote here inside of five
years, his companion came back. lie
was younger man
You nave always had nv symnn
my, bowed President Day to Miss
Clarkc. who came up to thank hin,
Tor inc opportunity OF addressing his
organization. For the president of n
Jefferson Ward quasi political club.
that was a decidedly pro-sufrrnrc mi,
terancc.
Henry r. Beck. who opened tbc
speaking program. drew attention 70
The extensive improvements made in
me East End by the Administrative
hoard as an indication that that body
ana he rs member of that body has
, always dealt CONSIDERABLY will mis-
section OF the city. lie intended to fol-
low the same policy. he said, if he were
returned to the board.
F0TItES INTRODUCES
BI;LIiGERENT NOTE:
MI. Folkcs. who followed him. broke
, me P'ac" OF tho evening with Il hclli-
Scrent note. Presumably mectiur =.
mas lacked marked activity ho drew
attention to the fact that Of the 1881
motions that have been made i'm the
board since its creation, zoos were
made by himself.
Ills had been II quiet earnest. unos
:, tcntaiions service, said Mr. FoIkes, un-
d married by frequent interviews i'm the
newspapers or glarnG headlines
Mr. Folkes criticized the tendency of
the charter change movement To en-
couraS" drastic reforms without full
q consultation with tn" people. Surely.
he said. if the people were deemed
II wise enough by cstimable citizens Ia
:. pass on a technical question like the
proposed lease Of the $i.0O0onn Gas
WORKS. they were amply qualified to
pass on the more general question as
TO which of several kinds of reform
government is best for Richmond
a GUNST POINTS no I.oN,:
SERVICE IN CITY COUNCIL
o Alderman Marx Gunst. candidate 70,
l. the Administrative Board asked 70,
= the support of the voters of Jerfcrsou
s Ward on the ground that in a service
Y vi t"entH one years in the Council h,
K never failed to give to the claims n,
that section of the city the same con.
II sheraton that he accorded to III,
70 needs or his own and other wards.
Il lifetime spent in the city i'm bust
: ness pursuits. and nearly Il quarter of
I'm,
II time he mas served on nearly every inn
g nortant committee, said Mr. C;unst ms
V tined him in asking The voters of, Tho
people at the end of this period of pro-
e baton To elect him to a seat on the
n board.
~ Mr.. Gunst drew attention to his snc.
Il 'iai interest in street Improvement $
g ana his activity III securing the recent
100000 bond issue for street paving
without which. he said, the street i'm
. provcment work for this year would
- have been completely halted.
LEGISLATIVE CANDIDATES
j., ADDRESS EAST END VOTERS
c Following Mr.. Gunst there spoke. in
the order named, Senator James t.
c cannon, Senator Louis O. Wcndenbury
X [. w. iiardwickc. Morgan r. Mills
delegate l.. X. Fuller. Delegate era
$ nam Is Hobson. Delegate ". N. Myers
g y. q. Boschen. w. y. crcnshaw r. T.
. Eowden. j. L. '.Jonc. j. r. Lightfoot
and James II. Price
Mr.. Mills. around whose candidacy
FOR the Council last year there cen.
/, cred one OF the hittcrcst lights I'm IN,
- history of Jefferson Ward. prcraccd
MS talk with the statement that h.
has submitted gracefully to the defeat
. administered to him in that election
and that he hoped old scores would be
forgotten in this one. James J.; Dick
erson. who led the light upon him al
the last election. was an interested
member of the large audience.
President Day announced that there
- VIII be a mass-mcctinS OF the citizens
- OF Fulton at the hall of the Junior
u Order. United American Mechanics. on
Il "Wednesday night. to which all the can.
II didatcS have been invited.