Show A AMERICAN CANDIDA CANDIDATES IES STORIES AMUSE MANY Politicians Laugh When Benny Rives Bives Tries to Escape Criticism for Dirty Politics Benny Rives Hives American party candi candidate candidate candidate date for city recorder is amusing the politicians of all aU parties by his attempts to escape responsibility for the attempt at dirty politics In which he and the American city committee tried to force City Recorder J T B Moreton to leave the name of the fusion candidates for forthe forthe forthe the city council off the official ballots Rives Hives has been in favor of the move moye from the start and he has been most active in the attempt to have the names left off the ballots which finally failed through the insistence of Moreton for a square deal dea It was Rives who sought out the members of the city committee and disclosed to them the alleged ir irregularities Irregularities irregularities regularities and through Rives the matter was called to the attention of at the city attorney whom no one would give credit for enough Intelligence to dis die discover discover cover an excuse for tor such a plan planT J T E Darmer who Is running the American party campaign for 1500 a month knows the weight of ot his candi candidate candidate date for city recorder and the inner cir circle circle circle cle knows that Rives Hives can be depended upon to stand hitched to the Kearns Kearne cart in any position he is placed These qualifications are what placed Benny Benn Rives Hives in the field as the administration candidate for city recorder and the hankering after another term on the part of J B Moreton aroused the ire of ot out resorting to the In the filing of the names of candi candidates candidates candidates dates J B Moreton aroused the Ire of Rives Hives his assistant as well as the ill will of every member of the American city committee who insisted that the city recorder should play politics in Tammany style and for his refusal Moreton is to be rewarded by b scratch scratchIng scratching scratchIng Ing In the First precinct that will amount to a slaughter by the time the votes are counted next Tuesday The plans for colonizing voters in the First and Second precincts have been amended in the last two days and In Instead Instead Instead stead of ot helping Moreton and his weak running mate for the council in the First precinct all of the floaters will be sent to the Second precinct with transfer certificates on the day before election |