El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-08
SHOULD BE HONEST
No Reason For Corruption In Poll
tics Says Train Man-HOneStY
the Best Policy

AS general rule" said q railroad
man yesterday, tine railroad men
throug hout the country do not take an
active part In politics. They are salts
lied if the affairs of aEy town are con-
Quoted in even half away reason
able manner. 1, have been railroading
for the past twenty years in towns
where the railroad element held the
balance of power and also in towns
where they were large in statue but
email number, and 1 am compelled to
say that have heard less grumbling
among men employed by the railroads
en- the conduct of city officers than [
have among any other class of people.
It is too often true that they are over
looked in certain matters but that is
owing 20 the fact that they accept COZ
ditIons as they are. The ma Ority OF
them believe it to be a sin to sell vote
but few of them are yelling to buy a
few votes for the success of the party
when urged to do go by the leaders.
The great ma jority o. them, however,
believe in honest politics and an equal
DISTRIBUTIONS of the spoils.
Zone thing you may depend upon,"
said the earnest Lslker, land that is
that the railroad men will never recog-
nize a leader. Very frequently an en-
plOye WOO receives great deal OF at
Eention from his fellow workmen, gets
The idea into his head that he is a
Ieadsr but when the time comes for
him TO nerd ;his supposed followers
there is stampede. You will find
every railroad man his own master and
herders among them are not tolerated.
LAS strange as it may seem, we have
one or two'rai road employees here in FL
Paso who imagine they are real lead
ers and are making great boasts re-
garding their strength among fellow
workmen, but watch how short of the
mark they will fall when they attempt
t" herd their steers on next Tues
day.
I'm Fort Worth, five years ago, 1
was working for the M. K. 81 T. An
election came around and it developed
into a very warm fight. Word was
given out athat votes would be pur.
chased at high price. The supposed
le adler of the railroad men made a
canvass of the boys and received
the greatest encouragement. Every
thing was fixed as he called it, and on
the morning of election he was all
swelled up with anticipated success.
When the votes were counted on the
night of election he WAS the smallest
man in town. Not q 2man had voted
the way be asked them to. The next
day the would-be leader was Informed
by those whom he attempted to
herd, that they were P11LeQ Win m1nos
of their own and proposed to utilized
them.
"Such may be the experience of the
men who are handling campaign funds
with the expectation of governing the
railroad vote of Ell Paso. In my Opin-
ion the men employed in the railroad
service here are far too honorable to
place their principles on the market
to be sold to the highest bidder. 1
have been here long time and 1 can |
honestly say that know OF no leader |
among them. The men who are posing
as leaders cannot control their own
votes let alone others, and they are be- |
coming the laughing stock for pro |
claiming themselves leaders.
81 have lived long enough to state
positively that the railroad vote is not |
for sale. and this fact has long
been known among honorable people"