The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-07-10
POLITICS IS
AGAIN NORMAL
No Sore Spots Left by Closest
Race in Political Annals
of County.
WASSMAN TO HEAD POLICE
New Commissioner Says He
Will Be Friend of Men in
His Department.

Political conditions in the city have
again become normal following the
election OF Tuesday. end the friends
of the winning candidates have COM
pleted their celebrations and the los
ers have become reconciled to their
defeat. Mr.. Wilcox and his friends
have taken their defeat gracefully
and claim that they have no sore
spots and are ready to assist the
mayor and new commissioners in any
way they can in the upbuilding of
Chattanooga for the next four years,
The friends OF Mr.. Wilcox state that
they know they can lay their defeat
at the door of former County Judge
Will Cummings and that they are in
no way sore at the county judge, as
he was merely exercising his right as
an American citizen, but that they
will not forget the incident in the
event the former democratic leader
or any of his friends ask for any
political favors at the hands of the
people in the future.
One of the leaders of the Wilcox
faction stated Thursday morning that
it was due to the influence OF Judge
VIII Cummings that Heron received
900 of his votes, and this, of course,
elected him. But for this" the
leader stated, wilcox would, OF
course. have been elected"
course, have been elected" The
Cummings forces in the late after
noon saw they would have to choose
between Heron and Wilcox.
It seems settled fact that Com
missioner Emil Wassman will be
given the police and fire department
and his friends say that the commits
sion could do nothing else or anything
better. One high in the ranks of the
other commissioners stated that not
giving Wassman the police and fire
department and switching some one
else to it would be like switching
Fred B. Frazier I. ON the schools and
health department and making him
commissioner of streets and sewers
It is the concensus of opinion that
Wassman was elected by the people
to the position of police and fire COM
! missioner and the other men elected
| to the other places and the places will
be filled accordingly. 1t is a further
known fact that Capt. w. l.. Baker
present captain on the force, will be
made chief of police succeeding the
present chief w. H. Hackett. Cap
tain of Detectives Nick p. Bush viii
retain his place at the head of the
detective force. There will be M
change in the department of streets
and sewers nor in the department o.
public grounds and buildings with the
exception of the return of Stanley
Snyder to the position of secretary t.
! Commissioner Heron. Ola Sweeney
who is present secretary to Mr.. Her.
ron, will retain her place, there beint
need for two secretaries in this de
partment.
Commissioner Wassman stated las
night that he had made no appoint
ments and would not until he haC
been assigned to his department
However, he stated that If given tn
police and fire department he would
at once begin a reorganization of boil
and would do all in his power to giV'
the city the very best fire and police
department they ever had. Commits
sioner Wassman In discussing hi
| future plans said; you can say on'
thing for me, that II I am given thu