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Show llHl MAY in BE MAYOR ILnen Make Peculiar ? ltSfrninations in Electing Chiefs of Cities. M)Js Doc. 6. Willie Battersea. has OfoUfctiiip a- colored man to be its V&lK'o second time In the history of UlB,try that a native of the West llju reached that position, some Jfcovlnclal towns have cither do-.Wrfacod do-.Wrfacod obstacles in the way of mf who aspired to the chief WriMcv of their town?. ruEoet noticeable case of the re- Bf a worklngmnn candidate oc-. oc-. t York. Here, n." In all English 7Me mayor Is elected by the city icBsn(l Invariably the sonlor alder- iXiioaeii At Tork Alderman J. H. . Wtho flnnlor member of the board ' -mnn a' railway shunter, was by !w decedents of the council entitled ftcRrttlon and he to actually of-rmk of-rmk had accepted It, When the R Hmct to ratify the election, hovs- VWb Unionist members offered a Me In his place, and succeeded In Ufe the worklnsman oholce. Thla thiKpIto of a resolution passed at a if Em i meeting of tho citizens call-&Khe call-&Khe council to adhere to Its orlgr-HlBiMon. orlgr-HlBiMon. As a result the laboritea Wiut tho country are charging tho Q3K 0f the York city council with n Ktfht act of snobbishness. uaaXjfer towns, notably Bradford, accBe where a worklnpman elected 3t4ty council was dismissed by his '. bjXg and Warrington, -whore the WtJjEvor received similar treatment, A iuBclasscs have been showing their Mi to worklngmen gaining an as-mr as-mr In civic affnlrs. ITlfclorod mayor of Battersea is ihard Archer. TJc Is tho son of a l0jlan, but was himself born In JB. Ills wlfo. who Is colored, Is a Bf Canada. Mr. Archer was elect- I BlBhe votes of the Progressive or H Bnenibcrs of the Battersea council. P |