El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-15
PAso, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY IS, 1899.

less fellows are candidates for some
thing, and their time Is spent in put
ting up jobs to secure financial assis-
tance from men they consider suffi
ciently loyal to party to produce the
ammunition.
The "Well Enough" whom "Polit-
ician' wants left alone is Judge MsgOf-
fin. Why should any other man aspire
to be mayor as long as the Judge wants
"Wen Eoough" wants the job and no
man has a right to compel him to spend
money to get it "Well Enough"
wants q quiet peaceable campaign and
permits no one but "Politician" to sit
| up nights thinking about how to get it.
| And then too why should any other
man have the temerity to appeal to
party loyalty for support. when ''Well
Enough" abrogates to himself the ex-
line and shell out the coin for his cam
paign fund.-
After snarling at every man who
dares look toward the mayoralty chair
'WelltEnough's''b ''boss proceeds 10 place
Messrs. Whitmore, Hammett, and
Dieter in nomination for mayor and
then declines the nomination for each
of those gentlemen so as to leave the
field open for sWell Enough" "Polit!-
cian" is a cunning old rascal but he has
awfully big feet, whose tracks cannot
be concealed espec ally after he has
waded into printers ink; and once hav-
ing seen those tracks you can never
forget them.
Since the identity of "Well Enough"
was explained by 'Pol1t1cian" himself
suppose we take another peep at "Poli-
tician's" tracks. He says:
''When O'Keeffe ran the last time
he promised both Ed. Fink and Jim
Dwyer the city msrshslship, or at least
there is good evidence that he did, and
then he had to resort to denials to get
out of it sufficiently for campaign pur-
poses."
In our political scrap book, and we
keep large one, we find the following,
clipped from the Times of April 4th,
1897:
"CARD.
81 wish to state in answer to yester-
day mornings Times, that I have new
Or talked to Mr.. John o Keeffe in re-
gard to the chief of policeship-aud
/ would not accept auy posi-
lion under the republican administra-
ion as l am q democrat, and no politi-
,al job could induce me to change my
political principle.
"JAMEs M.DwYER."
The following was clipped from the
Times of April 18th, 1897:
Last night E. M. Fink was ap-
by gentleman who said: L
lnderstand that the reason you worked
o hard for the success of the repub-
lcan ticket ~as because you had AL
lerman O'Keeffe's wri tten promise to
ppoint you chief of police if he was
lected mayor This appeared to daze
for such a statement. The
entlemsn then said: L have it
traiRht from Mr.. G. r. Moreheed
imself. He told me that you said. 1
7hen he asked you why you were I
7orking for the republican ticket, I
hat you had O'Keeffe's promise, in
vriting, to appoint you chief of police {
he was elected mayor Before re-
lying Mr.. Fink waited several sec {
nds and then said: II
~ have always been Mr. .Morehead's
riend and cannot understand why he
hould make any such statement: but ]
is due to myself and Mr.. O'Keeffe |
hat correction be made. 1 never in I
ny life told Mr.. Morehead that 1 had
ither verbal or written promise {
rom Mr.. o Keeffe to appoint me to
ny OLuce anu C8nnOC understand {
that object Mr.. Morehead could have |
ad in.making the statement.'" II
Now the reader has been able to
1entify the foot prints of politician"
nd G. r. Morehead as having been
,sde by the same foot. "Well
thoughts" boss has resorted to the {
anne false statements he was cornered 8
], in 1887. Does he imagine the peo. c
le OF Ell PasO are going to submit to @
is bossism forever? Whenever q re- I
ublicsn offers to run for office "Poli- Q
clan" sets up that whine about dis.
lrbiDg the peace and harmony of the t
AS long as he is allowed b
run things, all is we'll, O
1T the moment some citizen O
3 cannot control offers to take a hand v
our public affairs that citizen is
'undly abused as disturber of peace e
I'd an engenderer of bitterness and E
rife in the community. Well, the a
,od people of San Antonio threw off q
e Callahan yoke last Monday and t.
'xt April Ell Paso will unhorse "Poli-
,ian" and that excellent old gentle "
an "Well Enough Ii
ONE OF THE MANY. b
PERSONALS. Z,