The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-04-05
MANY CANDIDATES
LOOMING UP FOR
COMING ELECTION
SaA.re~+4nr Contests Promised In All
wards-Mayor vester Is SAID 70
Aspire for o8ico OF City manager.

Tho crop Of candidates for the NUM-
eipal primaries next month is making a
rood showing. Some have burst out III
euil bloom; others are just budding aho
some are Just poklng their heads out OIL
the ground. ..,,
Tho last week has seen decioed
change In the number OF candioa1eS'
every day showing an increase In INC
ranks. and by the end al next week all
iii ne ont that intend to enter the race.
OF the present council all except TWO
are candidates to succeed themselves
u2 FIarc. tho present member from inc
Hrnird ward, will not be on the tickce. so
Il In said, Mr.. Hare having bought
homo In Icnox and will move 10 the S"-
burbs before long. ~
Political rumora have II that Mayor
Vostar. member from the First waru'
Will b the present adrninls'racoh .
man for city manager In plac" W U. V.
N.y,c whose health forbids him taking
mn ,ha orduuus duties FOR another term.
and those in charge now have declded
On Mr. Vestor ns their choice Tor thS
,>o.t,ion at their cnucuScS held In Sfco.
4 Iauphlin's Office In the City Bank
bQilding-
ssrnIfv speaking. warm and tnreo seTonS
rnDonents are in the field who arc bound
so mako things interesting TOWARDS 'no
sonish-
Joseph H. Gollncr has announced his
s,.r<aAfacy and already has bis petNlon
Nod This IS not MI. Gc1lners INST
~.z.tzro In the political Held. no having
a.o,o1ected With noe nator4oes q num-
- Of times to tho board OF edocauoh'
@sd An at presen: q member on tne
Csnt. ". T. otoas coming out at TOO
k.-uer& Of htz friends. who have nieo
- ncttsion wEh tho required nufnpe1
- names attaohed while tho captain "as
s1ftsndtnx tho special session OF
@>w1saAtrre, whore BIO was ono o.
l6cQr rSproSentinS Ohio county. 80,
lOtto has uado q Ono record IN 80,
- 6elesatsa, and Il Il hoo8n1 unat
81, roI,nied with his intimate knoWl-
Ssd~. of civ affairs. VIII. cat quito = nS-
irre at do primaries.
Arm Martin Is tho oehW .s
bHrnk, tfra north end who hnS oneoroo INC
S~ttIa- 4dr. Martin managed Ve1
-~mratxn at tho last city elecSon' So
hcDoa 10 pun down tho ptun hfI's"l1
This tina. ..t,o. Il,
Cnester g. Thompson Is A-eanndate !"
,~noceed himself In the Second
Ar. Thompson whne tn councn LIE
shro- hi. lot with tho little 1oo<
- :, rtnr In tho city building and run
sfItnrs their own way. leaving Ino
Sesser body out in tho colo
Nv rhomppon Is not alone, Ms 1nf"
,.+her candidates will DO out 70 represcnt
ia second for tho next two years ny
ure: Ernest Rutter. a nemeof Oh en0 ~
~ council: Charles Miller. former po-
Jiceu.nn and now Justice OF INC pe1~''
sSnd Sam HumphrteA -
,rhn Third wnrd has been barron VI
nrauaon ND until n Tow daJs age. "h. 81,
"a g. Romine cnIno out. tono"eo oS
"a MeConkey, who It Is understood WI!
w., the endorsement OF tho presene
-ovcru that DO In the city hall. Ut f.
g Rnnn, in talked OF and also J. o.
p,,tt, but 1t Is not definitely known IL
then. xnntlerncn WIN cast their hn's
n tho Eourth ward there are four
..nIidatc. tockeying for position at inc
~renent time. Albert Kress. present IN
Srnhent wants to succced himself. ana
as he 1. a member OF the big hVe no WILL
BE- backed by tho city hall cars.
Louis Leonard IS also after the nonnE
nation. and everything 1RVofs n14n -
= verv strong candidate MI. Leooafo
=. ,resident Of the Ohio Valley Trades
~,d labor assembly. and has been eo!l-
yected with many civic movcmen"
: ail dope is true. Mr.. Leonard WIN get d
mic, vote in the Fourth. as 1t Is q st1oos
1rnion labor community.
Henry Noelltnger, the well Known
w1oceryrnan Of East wheeling IS 81
cSSer contender Cor the nomination;
and his many friends say that he Will
s. there strong at the finish
- John H. K1mz, the popular stoeae-
rnaker. Is In the race again TO SIT Iuf
mi chamber. T.
Yrrx ron tho nomination at the !ast
dty. election, but went down to de1eat
AIbert Kress by the wonderful cam
nstxn OF promises made By the Oppose
lion. =,
= rnree, end possibly four, wn be on
.x,,s Ar,et In the Fifth ward. and J.
Adam Blum is q candidate to succeed
6tu,sAH, but John Lashley and J. W.
ntnI are out to thwart him in this d.
eection. J. Cecil Fee was talked OF as
4, candidate, but MI Fee mas eoso10'eAS