Who Will Run For Mayor

WHO WILL RUN FOR MAYOR

The Political Atmosphere Not Very Clear.

MANY ARE UNWILLING

To Allow Their Names to be Mentioned- And There Are Now Believed to be No Active Candidates. 

Never were city politics more quiet. Never has the public taken a more active and general interest in city matters, but the candidates for city office, if we expect the clerkship, are not in evidence and the spring election is only a few weeks away.

There has been some talk, of course, about mayor, but there are no active candidates in the field. Mayor Copeland says he won't run, but there is quite a general suspicion afloat that in the end he will be found upon the republican ticket. Other republicans who have been mentioned for mayor are George Apfel, W. E. Stimson, D. T. McNeil and Aldermen Hamilton, Coon and Jenny. Some of these have denied being candidates or being willing to accept, if nominated.

The names already mentioned on the democratic side for mayor are Arthur Brown, Andrew Reule, J. D. Ryan and ex-Mayor Gottlob Luick. 

Many of the aldermen have expressed an unwillingness to stand for re-election, but it is believed that most of them will again be candidates.