Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-02


mittee. in view OF the negligible prob
ability of the committee adopting either
OF these two plans which. he confessed.
Appropriated his id.L of the r"forms
plan. too. nns lost out with the com
that should lie enacted, said Mr.. Bcmiss.
he was inclined TO favor the Pollock
plan as II step in the direction Of .rn-
tralizing responsibility.
nIINllsS ENROLLED
.jSnEIt POLiucI<'S BANNER
There was an element of the uuhc
i'eVable In the spectacle of the former
head Of the civic Association enrolled
Under the banner Of Councilman Pol
lock who In Il public speech denuunccd
the Civic Associaticn's reform plan us
Il scheme devoid of Il single rcdeeming
feature.
MI Mccarthy i'caHn his discourse
on politics In general and the pollork
plan In pa"iiculnr by assuming chat
tue civic Association plan has depart
ea thiS life and that the Jones plan
Wh'ch rs also the DAYTON plan. has gone
me sam" way. just as, according to re-
ports. it is dying in it's own home
III is Il mistaken idea said Mr.
Mr' arthv. to assum" that intellect
rules the world. Thcr. never has bon
nf this worlu which drew it's life from
me accurate scientist. Intellect Is not
,pe FORCE that is the determining factor
=" holtics. Envy, malice, greed. haze
rove Tear. cburage-thcsc are the hu-
,'''h dtiribItcS which govern politics
1uSt as they govern every other hu,n,n
,"'''itE. ana no political system can
nc "c'iScd which can restrain them"
NEGLECT TO TAKE ACCOUNT
Of HUMAN FA,"ToUS
no defect of the reform plans that
nave been proposed. said Mr. Mct,arihy
i'cs III tho fact that they neglect TO
.hhe INTO account the human factor
VT, lollocks plan FOR making the
Mayor q; member Of the ADMINISTRATORS
hoard with tn" right to nominate the
i"embers of tn" board. he said. failed
70 take into account the probability
'"'t, 'l Mayor 50 situated would in all
PROBABILITY form fri.ndShius with Ger
! 'aih members OF the board ANA auto-
MA t'cally renominate them, and anti
pa'hieS Tor other members who would
De as automatically eliminated through
tie mayors failure to rcnom.natc them
Inc proposal 10 elect the members
ni the Administrative Board Nv the
Council. said MIR Mccarthy. was fraught
win danger. The Council he thought.
would not he slow to lind out n way
10 let the Mayor know jus; which
nominations would be welcome and
which would not he welcome II was
impossible to devise a scheme To pro-
vent this. he said. II would no, bo
long before the Council would come to
accept IT as automatic that each ward
Shouid nave n member on the board.
WILL MEAN RETURN
TO OLD WARD SYSTEM
when YOU get to that point YOU
VIII have ward politics back again, and
&c usefulness OF the Administrative
h"ard VIII! In large measure be de-
stroycd. 1t would finally mean that
the member elected with the approval
or the touncilmen Of a certain ward
would feel il his duty TO look after that
wards special interests in appor.ior-
ing improvements, and all the old evils
OF the committee system would H. re-
stored"
1t is essential for the best interests
OF the city, said MIR Mccarthy, that
the Administrative Board be elected
by the voters from the city at large.
under no obligation to any particular
ward and free to carry out improve
ment plans untrammelled.
ADAMS OPPOSES ELECTION
or BOARD ny COUNCIL.
Alderman Adams. on the debate on
the question of elsCtIng the Admins
trhtive Board, served notice that he
VIII oppose Mr.. Pollicks plan to elect
the members by the Council lie re-
pedteu MS bellct that the committee
VIII do wisely Ia confn. itself for III,
present 10 only such charter changes
'ts are absolutely essential. He urged
~ TO adopt his resolution calling for
the enactment by the General Assem-
Div OF special law conferinp uuon
inc city OF Richmond the richt to
change its form of government at any
tllhe. by direct appeal to the voters
Alderman Pullcr told the committee
that he was opposed TO election Of the
Administrative Board by the ueonlc
oHerinG his resolution, introduced
earlief IN the evening, as indicating the
reforms he Will advocate