El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-04-10
YE GODSi
''Jedge' MagOtfin is Interviewed and
we '.kuOW'' Him.

To THE HERALD-'.Jedge" Magoffin
allowed himse f to be interviewed by
h mornings Times and |, as a demo-
crat of the End ward, thank God he
found time to TIL the reporter of that
paper his policy should he be elected
mayor of e Pdso.
He says in this interview, Il believe
the mayor and council acted W sely IN
| refusing to grant the right of wav . s
applied for by the Mexican railroad,
BUT IF ANY OTHER RIGHT OF WAY IS
| APPLIED FOR OVER THE STREETS OF
| THE CITY, such matters should be
| settled without IL Will among our peo-
| pie and the railroads over m ate rs OF
mutual lnter est AS matter of fact
| the j dga" Knows the Mexican railroad
| is not SATISFIED with its present fran
chise nor is Mr.. MOrehead. who put up
the Judge" for Mr.. More head made
it his business to 90 to the council
cham Der t. Influence the granting of
the right of way as the Mexican rail-
road desired IL but failed to carry his
point. The 'jed ge" knows that it is to
HIS interest to / ave the Mexican rail- |
road granted its original conce. sion |
asked in order that it may reach his |
reserve" which he expects to sell 70 |
the several railroads for depot grounds |
IT it is to his interest and the Mexican |
railroads to have the concession grant
I'd, that is of more weight with h IN
than is the interest of all the other
Poop of the city. Should the ''jedge"
succeed in this move it will result in
the destruction of more Than one half
the property values in the secO1d ward
and even worse destruction Won d be |
entdlled upOa those who own property
on San Antonio street and Ma coffin
avenue, SOnth Stanton. Utah and Ore
gOn streets, the future business streets
OF the city in years to come would be
destroyed. Even Myrtle avenue must
-utfer to a great extent. 1t has been
the dream of the ledge" for years 10
sell his properly. abuttlng on the
streets above mentioned, for depot Z
grounds and he has held it intact for C
hat purpose and no other.
The 'jedge' Spe tks rather cOmpla-
emily or a posi- nility of canc ling the
water bonds. This bit of Information G
5 Of great concern. Let the poop e I
ememb der that ledge NJ Coffin with
everal others, put up the money witn o
he water company t. fight the bonds F
n the courts in or1er that the said d
Tater company might continue 10 rob ii
he pep and sadd a long contract
n the city at the cd rates. The PEG
lie have succeed thus for in keeping !
he bonds in a good healthy CONDITION -
, spite of all the traitors, and also /,
ecured two year contract at far u
l es but one of these years has nearly
Splred and in auOt er year we NUT S
Sc the bonds as a leverage to make a bs
ng contract at the rates now prevail Ii
g. Yes, "jeOge,' we need the boods hc
I'd the people Of Ell Paso should see
at you are defeated next Tues iav so
lat it wi / be certain that you viii not ye
,tray them. IA
The i dye" says again: I'VE should on
, careful MT TO saddle a tax on the
hole community for a street improve 10
ent that only benefits one party or le
.rticular property The j dge'' is
IL of prunes. He knows we'll that of
e ''wf ole community" does not pay of
e tax for tn Sc improvements. Only tn
at property abutting on the stree fl
lproved pay the expense. The 'whple A.
immunity" had TO pay the cost of we
csc improvements he would have
ddled onto the whole commun ty';
t cost of bu lding a 5 dewaik on San an
ltonio street and Magoffin avenue on IL
e fronts of his reserve which now ca
We no sidewalks.
Goodbye 'Jedge." You Will be sad nr
+ but wise man next Tuesday. so
SAN ANTONIO ST. DEMOCRAT. WI