The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-03-18
Meeting in Binford School Is
Scheduled for Next Thurs
day Night
ANOTHER SESSION
In LEE DISTRICT
ALSO ON PROGRAM
How Race for Council Looks
TO Observer Jefferson " ard
Contest-Southslde Controls
Madison Ward

Jefferson ward having set the good
example last week. Clay ward will tall
into line and the candidates viii be
slven an opportunity to Did for sup
port at Binford High school Thurs
day night.
At least that Is the program TO date
A large party OF voters in Clay ward,
representing the middle ward ee-
ment, and that bordering on the BYRD
park section, have determined to give
Ebe candidates chance to express
themselves. Most of the candidate
not only in Clay ward, but in the
other wards as well. prefer 10 be let
alone in their peregrinations after
votes, 1t Ia said they do not care
20 get before crowd TO be quixzed
about their preferences for this or
for that legislation which may be i'm
mtnent. They do not care to express
themselves on the street car questions
which viii he uppermost In the pub
lie mind at an early date, II is said
At any rate. the group of voters in
Clay with open up the way for expa,s-
Sions OF opinion. and all the candi-
dates have been invited TO be present
Arrangements are being made To-
a meeting at Colombo han in Lee
ward. it is said This meeting will
probably be held early next week. and
then the voters OF Madison ward VIII
try TO give the candidates in that ward
an opportunity OF telling how they
stand on the public questions which
are soon to arise.
Two For Slaughter.
The meeting in jefferson ward was
one OF the best ever held In that sec
ton. All the candidates we're present
except the two which the Church
I'm Tigers have picked for slaughter
II lis said Neither Councilman Jeter
nor Alderman Melton were present. II
had been spread around that these
two members Of CITY council had made
themselves obnoxious To the elements
approving the work of the admins
trative board. by voting for the pro-
posed new charter which wipes the
board off the map.
Indications are that efforts wfli he
made on the part of the Tigers to re-
place them with r. Hardin Cross anf
J. II. Collier. These two. Il ia said
will be pushed forward particularly
while the other candidates viii be left
10 hustle for themselves. Cross, in
his maiden speech at Chimborazo
school. said he had been approached
by friends with a petition asking him
10 enter the race. He knew no.hing
81 such action until that moment. He
then came TO the conclusion that as
long as ne had never refused TO do n
favor for friend, he would enter the
running. Collier was raoha.tc in OPP
posing any tampering with the public
utilities and strongly favored the sale
OF electricity by the city.
Despite the combined efforts of the
Tigers, friends of both Melton and
letter, who say they can stand for
nothing Ike this. express themselves
as being satisfied with the progress Of
the campaign, and declare that neither
Of the men spotted for defeat by the
Tigers viii fall In the race.
Combinations i'm Madison.
In Madison ward the situation is
complicated. The developments in
cline the wise ones to the opinion that
the real fight for place is between
scher and Iadd. Both these men
come from the north side of the ward.
and II is conceded that all the South
Richmond candidates viii receive a
solid shot from the voters on that
side OF the river. thus giving the two
north side delegates a run for the sole
representative from that section.
There seems to he no doubt about
the reelection of Atkinson. Jones and
Moore. all from the Southside Nor
ton, a new man in the field. from old
Manchester. counts upon a fun vote
from that side. while Scher. who has
many admirers In that part of the
ward, figures that he will get few
OF the Nth man votes. while Iada
counts on solid shot from the north
side and MANY nom the Southside
ffus sriving him a sure chance for the
nth man place.
For the board OF aldermen in Madi-
son. two candidates are from the
Workman and Nunna'lv
Christian. who comes UP for er-elec-
ton IS the solitary candidate from
north OF the river Alderman Powers
n follower, lives in South Richmond
Under any circum stances the South
side will have FIVE of the eight rerre-
aeutatives in city council from Madt-
son ward, q
Lee ward candidates are taking lit
tie interest In the proceedings. It L
said. They take for granted that their
record in council is sufficient to carry
then, through 70 vict"~y A. least this
is true of the members OF comm on
council They 10 rot see much Of a
menace in the candidacy OF Carpenter
the representative Of the Highland
Park Citizens association.
Serious Situation.
There is some nervousness on the
part of aldermanic candidates, how,
ever, II Is said hv observers. -Four
men after two 'ohs is not ALWAYS .
good thing for the ms. Especially Is
this true in this particular case. with
one man from the outside coming int
the race with the support almost solid
~ of the Automobile club and fhe
GOOD roads advocates Alluort has
n this. and with his personal following
a aside from associations, his friends sae
disaster to one OF the present mem
h ffsontfnued on Pare Threel