El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-03-05

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The sun coming up, the sun going down,
Continues to lenghten each day.
The pretty spring suits we see about town,
Show that winter is dwindling away.
yesterday was a day of universe
rejoicing throughout the country,
said gentleman to Round About
The republicans rejoiced over McKiE
ley going in, and the democrats over
Cleveland going out"
Il do not object to our city authori
ties endeavOring to put stop to the
Chinese opium JOINTS" said DR.. Yam
dell, "but it does seem contemplate to
jump on inotfensive Cinnamon for vio-
lating this law, while Americans are
allowed to carry on public gambling
and to violate the laws for regulating
the sale of liquor, with impunity.
Opium smoking is pernicious habit,
one of the worst on its victims, and is
jsiugularly foolish, but while it may be
necessary out here on the border of
civilization to get drunk occasionally
to maintain position in the four hun
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drunk is no sign of genius"
"Will you tell me why it is that de-
mocrats are 60 darned badly afraid of
the registrar this year," asked re-
publican of Round About this morning.
They have been kicking ever since
the new registrar was appoint ted, and
1 have never yet heard q republican
make kick. Now if it is fair for one
il is fair for the other, but that is
just what 1 think the democrats are
Howe is going to be too fair to suit
them. There are a lot of democrats in
this town who depend entirely on the
fifth ward vote and they feel that the
registrar is not going to admit that
vote this year and they know their
names will be Dennis in box car let
ters do not think the Office holding
democrats of Ell Paso are so much
afraid of the republicans as they are of
their own party. They know that if
there is an honest registration and an
honest ballot that the best
element of the city will turn them out
of office. They have found
out that some democrat has made a
mistake in appointing Howe as regis
trar and now they are squirming around
trying to find some loop hole through
which to escape"
81 see," said another republican,
'that City Attorney Townsend is try
ing to declare the registration law un-
constitutional. Why don't they pass
an ordinance to license the registrar
and make him pay daily fine the same
as they do the gamblers. One act |
would be about as legal as the other"
"The street sprinkler is the worst |
cussed man in town." said citizen to |
Round About this morning. when |
the wind blows hard and the dust flies |
in chunks the sprinkler is cussed for
not putting more water on the streets;
when the wind is calm and there is
only slight evaporation then the
sprinkler is cussed for keeping the
At this time of the year the driver of
the street sprinkling coach sits on his
seat and says nothing. He knows he
please every body and he doesn't
try"
Mr.. F. Ed. Spooner, the we'll known
writer for bicycle papers, and authori-
~ on all bicycle matters, passed west
Yesterday on the Southern Pacific. He
s going to California where he will
the National circuit of bicy
lie riders which will start out on the
,ircuit'as soon as organization is perfect
ed. Among the professional circuit
'iders will be George Bovee, Of this
place, and a number of other we'll
known men. 1t is expected that the
circuit Will reach Ell Paso some time in
May and MIR. Spooner was anxious for
81 PasO to make arrangements for a
late at this place. Mr.. Spooner further
'aid that there would be meeting
leld some time this month in Chicago
xnere the matter of Sunday bicycle
'acipg would come up and he asked that
representative of the Ell Paso Cycle
Track association be represented there.
He SAID there would be a revolution
here against the arbitrary acts of the
L. A. w. and that the seceders were
already SO well organized that there
" as no doubt about what the outcome
of the Chicago convention would BE-.
Every track in the country had agreed
20 join in the movement for Sunday
'aclng, not only western but eastern
tracks as well, and that after the Chi
cago meeting the L. A. w, would not
be able to control any track in the
from the Atlantic to the Paci-
ed States would no longer be under the
banu of the l.. A. w. just what kind
Of league would be form Mr.. Spoon
er id not know, but the plan was for
all the bicycle tracks of the country to
form an association under more liberal
rules than now existed. No fight would
be made on the L. A. w. but the track
associations proposed to have some say
in the way race meets should be con-
Quoted on tracks for which large sums |
of money had been paid out and for |
which investment there was now no |
profit on account of the stringent laws |
of the L. A. w.
AROUND ABOUT.
Germany Plus America.
According to the Albuquerque Citi- |