Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-30
POLLOCK RE|TERATES
CHARGE AGAINST PAUL
Says Opponent Circulated Reports
About Him, Knowing They
Were Not True.
PAUL FAILS TO MAKE REPLY
Clay Ward Rally Is Held Mt Audi
torium, When Candidates for City
Council In Tuesdays Primary
Present Their Claims.

After expressing the belief that the
next two years will be most important
in the history Of the city, so far rs
its municipal government Is concern
cd, because OF the work that must
candidates for the City Council, Fl ON
Clay Ward in the primary on Tues
day. speaking at the City Auditorium
last night. urged citizens TO give care
full consideration 10 the men they elect
to represent them. Much work yet
remains to be done. speakers said. and
this work Will require great effort.
with the exception OF warm ad
dress by Gilbert X. Pollock. a former
member Of the CoIncil who nayed AL
derman Lawrence Paul for alleged re-
ports circulated by him. the meeting
WAS without undue interest. Incuri-
bcnts stood on their records. calling
attention to their work and to the
henetits accrued from their legislation.
Each speaker promised 20 give the
people the best government possible
il elected, and pledged the electors their
will In all matters.
New candidates said they had no
DIRK they had ACCOMPLISHED. but it
elected they guaranteed the people
they would be heard They could not
say what they would 10. but pledged
themselves 20 follow the dictates OF the
people who had elected them as their
rcprcSentatiV es.
POLLOCK CHARGES PAUL
WITH UNFAIR ATTACKS
Mr.. Pollock declared that Alderman
Paul had caused to be circulated re-
porIs that he had been brought ont as
n candidate By the Virginia Railway
and Power Company in order TO secure
straight scent fare. Mr.. Pollock
denied this and said that Mr.. Faul
knew the report was not true when
1t was circulated. He also pointed
out that he had been a member of tho
into the present franchise the pro-
visions for the labor. school and six
fora quarter tickets.
After expressing his sorrow at the
personal matters injected into the
campaign. Mr.. Pollock said other re-
ports had been circulated tending TO
discrcdit him IN the eyes or tho com
munity. but that he did not believe
the people would listen To them. lilo
believed the citizens would rebu:le his
competitor properly at the polls on
Tuesday, and that the rebuke would
rcsound from one end OF the city to-
the other. lie dwelt on charter changes
anc the price Of gas. Mr.. Paul made
no reply to the remarks of Mr.. Pollock.
was presided over by Henry y. Farmer
and held under the auspices OF the
Clay Ward Actives. were Henry VI
Cousins. Edgar Is. English. Jack L.
lcpPs. T. Gray liaddon. Frank Eruck,
Clarence Seaton. X. Lee Peters end ia
cob Cmlauf for the Common Council,
and Lawrence Paul and Gilbert X Pol
lock, for the Board OF Aldermen
With the spring campaign coming
TO close with mass-mectins to-
might in Fulton in the haI OF the
Junior Order Of United American Me-
chanics. on Louisiana Street. near :hc
corner OF Williamsburg Avenue, there
IL an absence Of any general interest
N Inc election. Efforts have been made
~ Jefferson Ward TO inject many nat
tors into the campaign, ard Charles r..
Richards yesterday issued "A statement
supporting II. w. Melton for The B.oard
ot Aldermen and urging The people to
select their representatives with care.