The Gazette

CHEEKS' CANDIDACY

For the City Council in the Eighteenth Ward Just Announced-

A "Sweeney" Democrat.

Eugene F. Cheeks, young, ambitious, energetic and capable, has announced his candidacy for the city Council in the 18th ward. Until in recent months, Editor Cheeks of the Cleveland Guide, a bi-monthly publication, was a Ray T. Miller Democrat, so-called. Since, he has apparently switched to the support of the Congressman Martin L. Sweeney, the better faction of local Democracy.

What will prove to be the fatal mistake of Cheeks' candidacy, if he persists, is his wholesale endorsement of "The Blossom Triplets." Cheeks well says:

"Three "Negro" councilmen in our City Council have held the balance of power in issues that have come before the council, and have been in a position to demand certain things."

But they didn't. Friend Cheeks, and therefore a failure upon the part of our people to re-elect any one of them will not be a "calamity." He says that 75 per cent of the 18th ward population is Afro-American. this is hardly the case. That is a most too generous estimate. He also says: "Much has been accomplished by our three councilmen and much remains to be accomplished." The last half of the foregoing sentence means so much more than the first half of it that the two are a pain and a headache."

as far as "The Blossom Triplets" (George, Payne and Bundy are concerned. Cheeks announces that he will run "on a non-partisan ticket" since the city election is non-partisan.