Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-03
QUIET CAMPAIGN IS
DRAWING TO ITS CLOSE
Voters Tomorrow Choose Mayor,
Member OF Administrative Board
and Councilmen.
RECORDS OF CANDIDATES
Ward Fights for Seats in Common
Council and Board OF Aldermen
Are OversliadOwing Contests for
City-Wide Offices.


Will elect Mayor. choose in a pre-
fcrenttal primary 20 be held IN con-
Junction with tho regular primary tho
man they prefer 10 represent them on
tho Administrativo Board. and elect
members TO tho Board If Aldermen
and Common Council
The campaign partly because in tho
beginning tho General Assembly was
In session. but more largely because
there were no personal or political
Issues. has been unusually quiet. Il
has been absolutely devoid OF personal
attack. except occasionally through in
nuendo. and there has been no advocacy
Of any particular measure. IF there be
"a large vote, II will be moro on account
Of the ward fights for counCilnanic
seats than because OF interest in tho
race for tho nnyoralty and the Admin
istrativc Board.
MAJOR George A!uslic, candidate
to succced himself has tn AL his adj
dreFscs TO tho voters stood upon his
record. pointing out that y" has always
sought and gained tho sympathetic CO.
operation Of the departments under his
control and the people a. large. that
he has given all Of his indus,ry and
Integrity 10 the Office. and that he has
n"eh onHn ~ All times 81" propc' sax
session from whorusoevcr = might
come. Like tho other two candidates
for tho mayoraltv, ne has been Inn
personal In his campaign. referring to
measures ana hN'lHs rather than 20
mon ~" mas served an uncompictcd
tcfn and on" elective term aud main
tains, az he did before that II returned
20 once" II VIII TIC without strings
lung MN =" any group OF iac'i"n a'G
without poi'l'h pr"in's" !" any man
AiN>LlE OPPOSED u,
HAWKINS AND I.ECi>Y
q \. Hawkins. former Commissioners
% Hcvcnuc. and now engaged In TN"
r'nl estate business. has urged nm
e'' 'or IN" people preferences on inc
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lar than on ,b. man al is supnos.l
To cnfo-ro INA, i.,. Iu.s he -
said arc ~ ma await urlos. ,h.v H..
errorccd ana nn n.. ,rniiit..J u
elected. to enforce cyc,v law ON THO
books. lfo la, rcpca,odlv d.ui.d that
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ton or ORGANIZATIONS
Robert Lccky. ir. an Insurance.
pgon, and former SECRETARY OF the
Virginia state Insurance Company. has
been in public ~" during twenty ono
years. and has served or the BOARD o!
Fire Commissioners FOR fourteen years.
IN urEing hiS candidacy n" has SAID
that th"r" IS u" quarrel !" he had with
tho present form of municipal govern
ni"n', ana mat MS experience as
business man e" an author OF certain
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Graham L. lIobson. william J..
Knowles and George NcD. Blake arc
tn" candidates for thc vacancy ~ tho
Administrative Board occasion.d by
the death OF Robert Whittc;. Jr. Some
l'tle spice has boon "nScndcrcd In the
campaign among these three mon. Mr..
iiohTor. who is connected with tho
Nredcgar Company, aud is on" OF Rich
iuond's representative in the House
OF Delegates, has attacked The Admin
is'tarirc BOARD for having discharged
men from the Water and Gas Depart
m'nts the inference being mat the
i"''i we're "'A'h'SSe" because thcF hao
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'eal''S up 'he r'tE rome "PPoihte"
o' '"e o'o committee on Keller or me
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