The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-05-06
RE. LEWIS OR T.B.WILSON
MAY BE CITY MANAGER
Almost Anything Likely To Happen II Politicians
Get Control of City in Tuesdays
Election
BY w. o. SAUNDERS.

With its municipal election on
" five days off TUESDAY, May
10, 1921, Elizabeth City finds it
self in the embarrassing position
OF being forced to choose be.
tween two candidates for the
Mayoralty, neither of whom ha:
the confidence and good will Of
majority of the people.
DIR. I. Fearing is a good fellow in hs
own way. Ira Parker is a good fellow
in bis own way. The way of neither
has the unqualified approval of the town
Fearing has no pep at all and Parker
has too much. Fearing is non-progres.
sve, hard-headed and bull-headed. Park
er is progressive enough, but no one
knows (which way his progressiveness is
headed. Fearing is as sober as a COW
Parker isn't sober enough
This newspaper has offered its col
umns to both candidates for the may
orally, to enable them to say just what
they stand for. Neither has accepted
the invitation, probably upon the theo-
ry that the less the public knows about
what they stand for the better show
they will have of electioR Any fairly
strong man could announce his candi-
dacy for the mayoralty to-day and de-
feat the pair in a walk.
The Aldermanic situation is net so
hopeless. Out of the raft of candidates
for the Board of Aldermen from the
various wards there is a possibility of
a fairly efficient and honest Board of
Aldermen being elected.
The most determined fight for places
on the Board of Aldermen will be waged
in the First and Second Wards. The
old Sawyer r-Wilson-Aydlett faction has
centered on the election of P. II. Viii
fiams and Sim Burgess in the First
Ward and Louis Anderson and G. w.
Stevens in the Second Ward. If they
can put their tickets across in those
two wards they hope to land fifth
in the Fourth Ward and r. e. Lewis
or TuIly Wilson will be the next City
Manager of Elizabeth City.
But the politicians for pe1f can not
bank on carrying their second ward
ticket They can't count on G. W. Stew
ems unless they elect a majority thru
out the city. Mr.. Stevens will work
with them if they get a majority. If
it is an even split G. W. Stevens is apt
to go right. He is a proud citizen and
is inclined to run with the right ele-
ment.
AS for Louis Anderson, his election
is by no means assured. Anderson's
candidacy was going fine until Charlie
Cooper announced his candidacy from
the same ward Tuesday night. Cooper
can carry the textile workers in his
ward and he can trade with any Main
St candidate of his choosing. Cooper
knows the Second Ward and he has
kept the faith with. his Second Ward
peopIe. He succeeded Louis Anderson
on the Board of Aldermen two years
ago and has got more things done for
his ward in two years than Anderson
got in sixteen. And Second Ward folk
know that.
And so the politicians will have a
hard time handling the second ward.
They have got to defeat Charlie Coop
er. J. II. Leroy and D. Ray Kramer
to do it. 1t isn't going to be easy. The
Second Ward voters who live beyond
Parsonage and Harney streets are not
aways easily duped. They know what
they want and they will vote for Charlie
Cooper and whatever candidate he lines
up with, because they know they can
depend upon Cooper. They can de-
pend upon him because Cooper has the
confidence of the people all over town
and Louis Anderson hasn't. Anderson
ceases to be an important figure when
he gets off his own front porch.
The fight in the First Ward is going
to be close. 1t is the ward of Tuly
Wilson and Matthias Owens. 1t is the
ward in which Mack Sawyer has plant
ed most of his children. The first can
lidates announced from that ward were
L. H. Williams and Sim Burgess. They
are Mack Sawyer's candidates. He is
working for them and every one of his
lenchmen are working for them. Mr.
Williams has always been Mack's faith
ful ally and Mack has always been
Duller of chestnuts for Williams. But
70 elect Williams and Burgess it is nee
essary to defeat Roscoe Foreman, Claud
'. Ballard and W. T. Love, Jr. F'ofe-
man is believed to be the strongest man
n the ward. He defeated P. 81. VIII
iams in a race for Alderman once be-
'ore and it is confidently believed he
2an do it again. And if Foreman is
elected he will carry Claud Ballard
aloDg with him,
And then there is young Tom Love
% reckon with in the First. His can
lidacy was not taken seriously at first,
'ut that boy has announced platform
hat rings true. He is going to poll
bigger vote than anybody anticipated.
In the Third Ward where five candi-
iates are dying to serve their country
fla the A1dermanic chamber there are
ust two who seem to have a majority
behind them. They are P. G. Cohoon
md c. G. Pappendick. They have the
:onhdence of most of the people in
heir ward and the Third Ward usually
axes care of itself.
IN the Fourth Ward there are three
-andldates from whom the voters OF
lhat Ward believe they can pick a
rusty pair. They are w. II. Weather
" L. B. Twiford and Calvin Twiddy.