The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-04-12

outraged.
Candidates for the Board Cf
Aldermen are popping up like ter
rapins IL a pound at the smell o.
fish scrap. AS usual the Second
Ward, where there are more folks
with more time for mouth. IS show
ing the largest number CT c2naL-
dates. The candidacy Of Radio jim
Anderson was promptly followed by
announcements OF the candidates.
of Automobile Charlie Lane. Lohy
Fireman Keppy Ferrc.l, and Plum
Ger j. D. Fitchett.
Keppy Ferrell, fireman Cn The
Norfolk Southern Yard engine IS y
/ Dig mouth, goodnaturCd, GoOd-look-
ing, likable guy with quite jo!-
! lowing in the factory neighbour
hood. All of the old line politicians
have always consulted KCDpy in
Second Ward politics and enlisted
his support for their men and their
measures. Naturally. Kcppy has
come to look upon him as an
important political parsonage ii his
ward. And of right lie well may.
But what brought Keppy cut for
Alderman is his dislike foc Jim m
derson Keppy doesn't like jim ana
he'll be dad blamed if he'll stand
idly by and see Jim walk away with
the Aldermanic honors in his ward
if he can help it. Keppy figures
that he has bigger following IL the
Second Ward than Jim. And he
probably has, because jim Anderson
has never monkeyed much il politics
and has paid mere attention 70 MS
business than to his ward.
/ But neither Keppy nor jim is any
too well known thruout the town and
! the whole town votes On al Alder
man. So you can imagine the con
sternation that reignS il the Sec
ond Ward when it was talked
around the fire engine house last
night that Tailor D. walter Harris
is being grocmed as a candidate
from the Second. The whole Town
knows Walter the clothes man and
The more folks know about MIN the!
better they like him.
Walter is wild enough and rough
enough to appeal to the Second
Ward and he has something jhat
the whole town needs; pride in his
hC.ne town and bouEdlcSS fGitl in
it's possibilities. Starting in business
in Elizabeth City 20 years ago il
mere hole in the wall, without
capital and with very limited credit,
Walter Harris has built Up one Of
The most pretentious stores OF it,
kind in the two Carolinas. So sue
cessful has the fellow been il his
own business. that BIC clothing
manufacturers in the East have had
their eyes on him for years and
have offered him every inducciHcnt
to quit Elizabeth City and 20 10
work for them. He actually travels
fourteen weeks in the year for one
CT the biggest tailoring firms IL the
East and has put more clothes on
college students and jazz Orchrsi.a5
than any man in the bISinC.5 in
the Southeast.
The fact that Walter is On the
read fourteen weeks out CT the %
might ieopardize his Candida, bI,
for the fact that he is family M"1
End so routes his trips that he n"v-r
misses mere than enc weekend
away from hCnlc in succession. HIS
read work would not keep him
away frcm board meetings.
Walter is thoro.y progressive,
wide-awake and ali"c with good
sound ideas. He secs other tO"nG a..
over the country and has not Iail.l
to ncte those particulars in which
Elizabeth City eXcels and thyse III
which it lags. He would make &
great asset to the city adm!ntsl~"-
ton and it is said that he IS regard
cd fayorably by Mayor Flora. AM
if elected to the Board OF Aidcfmra
he would be as proud OF his job q:
4 cat is of kittens and his friends
believe he would give it the baa,
there is in him. But Walter haE .r.
announced his candidacy. lie IS
thinking it over.
The Anti-Smith Issue in Fourth
The Anti-Smith issue he's been
revived in the Fourth Ward by the
announcement Of BaScom L. Sa" 'rr,
Junior Ordcrman and late Anti
Smith, as a candidate for the LoGu
of Aldermen.
Ordinarily Bascom Sawyer. store
keeper is generally liked; Duh
straight Democrats all over tow 'e-
sent his bid for support in a Dcil2-
cratic primary when he incd ID
with the so called Hoover-DemCcayS
in the late national election. h-.V-