May Be Two Tickets Monday

Petitions Out for Old Board to Run

TALK OF ENDLESS CHAIN

Voiced by One Man Who Favors a Change in Methods and Occasionally of Men

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More than ordinary interest is being taken in the school election, which will be held in the council chamber next Monday. The polls will be open from 10 o'clock in the morning to 2 in the afternoon. 

The friends of the retiring members of the old board are disgruntled at the action of Monday night's caucus in demanding that new blood be put upon the board and that when the board has gone so far as to receive an unanimous report of a teachers committee that news of that report should not be kept from the public who are interested in it. 

A number of consultations have been held by members of the old board and petitions have been drafted asking them to run again, to be circulated for signatures. These petitions are believed to emanate from a source very much opposed to grade separation and new street car lines and hence opposed to a ticket on which ex-Mayor Copeland's name appears. The fact of the appearance of these petitions indicates that it is the present intention to run the retiring members again. 

The ladies had selected, it is said, Miss Bower, Mrs. Finney and Mrs. Wetmore as their candidates, with the apparent feeling that they were entitled to four out of the nine members of the board. But it is said that it is not the present intention to run this ticket. A gathering of ladies, not called for the purpose, but at which 14 lady voters were present, have decided unanimously that they would support two of the nominees of Monday night and Miss Bower. 

It is not unusual for a popular desire for a change to arise when this feeling gets headway, the personnel of the old ticket cuts very little figure. That this feeling exists in many quarters is beyond question. One man expresses it forcibly in these words: "Every member of the old board whose term expires has already served several terms. Each one of them has been president of the board. Each one of them has been secretary of the board and some of them have been treasurers. It's an endless chain which it is time to break." 

From this it may be gathered that there will be a warm election on Monday.