El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-03

| Burton and Whltmore, Dut tne renOm
lnation of Alderman Drummer, il dectd
ed upon with the others, was kept II
the background fearing the effect i
would have upon organized labor, a
the trouble between Mr.. Drummer an
the Tailors' Union has not blown owe
by any means. This was shown by tn
protest entered by representative o
organized labor at the convention
against the ratification of his nomina
ton last night.
If the convention had have been tn
result of packed primaries an excus'
might have been offered for its actor
but the plans laid by the police and Of
iceholders was heartily entired into 81
the primaries and everything they ask
ed was granted without a dissenting
voice.
WHAT IT MEANS.
This action shows that all the cussed
ness of the democratic officials In the
past, even to the stealing of the regis
tration petition, is to be endorsed at
the election a week from tomorrow by
"a
their individual preteutions to decency.
1t means that the will-mskers, the
church members and the gamblers will
go together to the polls and support q
man. for mayor, who, swearing to up
hold the laws of the state, and whose
duty it makes to uphold those laws. pub
licly goes to dens that are violating
these laws and encourages same by
them to such an extent
that he is made the defendant to a suit
at law to recover on promises made to
cover such patronage and yet every
time this mans name is mentioned in
this representative convention it is
cheered to the echo.
This man whose name is .cheered to
the echo by this representat:v con-
vention has for the past two years
been in charge of the formation of the
board of health and yet last summer
when our city was threatened with an
, pidemic and the board of health dis
organized he did nothing to
Itrsie hten the matter out until q meet
pg of physicians was held and the
natter in such shape that mass meet |
ng of citizens threatened. What this |
cost this city will never be |
,nown. 1t has cost the taxpayers |
thousands of dollars directly, and by |
he loss of business a great many thou
a ads more has been lost to the COM
nercial interests of the city.
The hurried signing of the electric
light contract was another one OF the
brilliant acts of the mayor whose name
vas received at Saturday nights con-
'ention with "out bursts of applause.
hem. His mistakes have made up the
anger part of his administration but
he taxpayers are able to stand it.
thousands of dollars have been wrung
rom the taxpayers by his mistakes yet
be taxpayer does not feel it. 1t has
cen distributed among the people by
aesparties it has been paid out to. A
1ousand or SO dollars extra was paid
ut for the city printing but one or
NO printing houses in the city were
Thousands of dollars was paid out {
q account of the mayors dilatory tao
cs in the smallpox matter yet it went
, some good democrats. The city lost
of dollars by dilatory levee
'ctics two years ago yet the state paid
part of the loss back and it went into
lie maws of the faithful. !
1t is any wonder that Mayor Ma :
offin's name was cheered to be echo? /
be lswbreakers whose friend he has E
oven to be were there to cheer the {
en- ton of his name. The police who ;
e under the Houston chief were
ere to cheer their reappointments.
ne contractors who got $500 q for T
ven hundred dollars worth of build i
g were there with their friends to Z
ell the "outbursts of applause" =
lie men who were benefited by the fl
q of smallpox were there to cheer
, name ofs the man who had "
his mistake given them desirable "
IS. The electric light people no q
!, BIT had its friends there to cheer the .
ne of the man who so hurriedly ts
ned.their contract; and then there
) acting Mayor Catlin and "Broth- OF
Jake" who can make the weIkin OO
e when the name of the mau is men, Je
led who is so easy prey to their 7,
Tres. to
tut hat is the use to enumerate? It
representative convention. The hs
n was fully represented from en-
first ward bat not a railroad man ou
. Mexican was on the delegation ~,
second ward was well and ably re-
sented by Charley Patterson but tn
q railrnad man althounh q frnoaA =