The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-07-30
DUET MUNICIPAL
CAMPAIGN NEAR CLOSE
AUDITORIUM MONDAY NIGHT
Chnvass Has Been Marked BY Great
Courtesy Between candidates-No
lGnd- Singing At All Attempted.

One Of the ouietest political cam
pAsgns In this city in years comes to
a end Monday night. SO far as can
\ ~ learned no one is sorry, for interest
IN the contests has been at low ebn
ali through the campaign
AL OF the candidates were SO COM
plirnentary to each other al every
rAffv that Il required a very astute
Aaind to discover whether candidate
was speaking for himself or for all
~ ais opponents
No one knows how II will end Per-
haps there lie more interest in the tri-
angular contest for the Administrative
Beard than IN the other fights. This
81 probably due to several causes. The
Administrative Beard touches oftener
and more closely the life OF the city
than the state Legislature, in other
words IL means more to the city than
the State Legislature does.
Another item TO explain this greater
interest IN the Administrative Board
nght is the fact that all three oand'-
dates are men with unusually strong
political backing, and there Is some
politics In their fsht-
Take Your Choice
Some say Beck and Folkes will he
returned, others say August VIII
and Beck and Gunst nominated, ana
yet others Say that Folkes and Gunst
will come ont ahead. There are three
combinations here and you may take
your choice
In the case Of the uBltitudirous can
dfdates for the House OF Delegates.
your choice OF combinations Is al
most lirnitless II you are high-
hrcwed mathematician. which the re-
porter for the VirginIan In not, take
your pencil and paper and having dust
ga carefully that part of your ivory
dome. which used to delight in per
mutations and combinations. choice and
chance e!ncrnial theorerans, etc. figure
and tnd out just how many comhina-
lions of FIVE each can be obtained from
the nine candidates. and you Will be
asten.shsa. We don't know how many
combinations can be made. but II reas-
onabty certain that there are almost
ae many az there are voters in the
city of Richmond
All Say They Are Good Men.
An the candidates are good men,
who represent no faction, creed, or
CLIQUE they say, and all areanxious
10 kexve the people and not the So
called interests.
Most OF them advocate an eousifSa~
1sox Of taxation. without having given
any details os TO how taxes will he
eeualt1ed. One or two regard the pres
ent system of seni-segregation as n
step in the right direction.
Z. r. Fuller. Graham q. Hobson and
william n Myers are candidates for
recollection. while A. O. Boschen, r. T.
Bovder,. w. A. Crenshaw, James P.
Jonse, John B. Lightfoot jr., and
James Fl. Price are candidates for the
Arst time
Tnere are four candidates for the
state Senate, James e. Cannon and
I. O. wendenburg who ask to be re-
turned and c. w. Hardwicks and Nor
gan r. Mills are making their ffrst race
for the Senate In this campaign.
TIVE Meetings T'onsght.
cnly three speaktngs remain fer the
benefit of candidates and voters. One
tonight in the J. O. U. 4. NJ Hail In
Fulton, at sac o'clock, and at the same
hour another at the Henry Clay Club
in Spring Street, and the campaign
cioees absolutely. with a big rally in
the city Auditorium Monde night at
$50 o'clock.
Great wImd-sp Meeting.
TIE two meetings tonight will d.
vide the time of the candidates The
aspfrants for the House of Delegates
viii speak nrst to the Henry Clay
didates for Il e Senate and Administra-
tive Boar1 addresses the meeting In
Fulton. Then they will change. can
didates for the Senate and Admins
trative Board coming to the Spring
Street Meeting. while the candidates
for the House of Delegates 20 to Full
ton. This arrangement gives all Of
the voters a chance TO hear all of the
~awNtTafes tonight