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Show WILL KEARNS CONTROL? The Kearns people have given up the fireworks fire-works display in their advocacy of Frank Knox for mayor, and are freely discusing his withdrawal from the mayoralty race, as the hieroglyphics on the masonry indicate that he has no chance of defeating Mr. James. They are not oven sanguine of the combined support of Knox and Odell withholding with-holding the tide, and are admittedly fearful that with their best efforts against him Mr. James will be nominated on the first ballot. For" tbis reason rea-son they are now centering all their energies upon securing a majority of the city council, so that their political department pets, Superintendent Hines of the waterworks, L. C. Kelsey of the engineering en-gineering department and Dr. Stewart of the health department will not be summarily ousted with the inauguration of the new municipal regime.' re-gime.' " "" These heads of departments have been of-very of-very important assitsance in tho building up and maintaining of the Kearns machine in the past, and the loss of control there would be a severe blow to Messrs. Lippman, Heywood and others of the Kearns sagamores. They figure that if James were elected, they would be able to thwart any effort to remove these men, provided they are able to throw the Kearns cord around enough of the councilmen to block the possible desire de-sire of the mayor to place unfamiliar faces in those positions. fc? tT 4,gW They are being ably assisted by these department depart-ment chiefs. The emergency man in the waterworks water-works department spends most of his time soliciting solic-iting Knox support in the vicinity of the Second precinct saloons; the employes of the health department de-partment have received explicit instructions that they are expected to work for Mr. Knox; the servants ser-vants of the engineering department buzz Knox with, unintermlttent industry. All of which is conducive con-ducive to the best possible municipal admlnlstra tion. An example of the great industry being shown by city employes just now in attending to municipal affairs was referred to recently by a prominent Republican. He stated that it took a corps of four men in the engineer's department two days to survey one hundred feet of sidewalk side-walk in front of his residence. They merely smoked and chewed and spat and deliberated upon the great prosperity they would enjoy when Mr. Knox became mayor. 5 C 55 Scene Mr. Odell's headquarters in the Ken-yon. Ken-yon. Telephone is ringing violently as Mr. Odell enters, supported by John James and Dennis Eichnor. Mr. Odell Hello! Smith that you, John Henry? I've been trying to reach you for two days. You really didn't say that you were in favor of James, and will be with me to the finish? (Sob escapes him. James and Dennic embrace). I didn't think you would forget what It means to the Home Telephone company to have me elected. You hadn't forgotten? (Tears stream down the cheeks of the candidate). No, the interview I didn't hurt me at all, so long as it isn't so; rather helps, I think and puts James All right. Good 1 bye. (Handclasps, refreshments.) ' 1 ii i ij I The Kearns lieutenants have issued a bulletin j to the faithful, showing whom they wish for councilmen in the various precincts. They are very anxious to have Mr. Daveler and Mr. A. J. Davis returned from the Fifth. Mr. Daveler is considered indispensable on account of his subservient position with the morning organ and his renowned ability as the throaty champion cham-pion of organized labor. The merits of Mr. Davis are not so palpable, except that he obeys counsel readily and his great abilities as a chef might come in handy on one of the council junkets. Councilman Black and Joe Cottle will wage war with these two eminent men of affairs and Mr. Neuhausen will be very much in the running. Affairs look very rosy to Mr. Lippman in the Third. Joe Raleigh, a recent convert to Republicanism, Repub-licanism, has been given $300 with which to work havoc among the unregenrate voters of that precinct who are not favorable to Knox. This will also be expended with a view to fixing the primaries for Jim Haslam, Sam Barlow and E. E. Rich, who are losing flesh under the weight of councilmanic aspirations. |