El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-26
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| me registration OF voters in the
Texas cities is less this year than in
any year since 1892" said H. s. Plat
of Dallas at the Sheldon. Dallas fell
nearly thousand short of the regis
tration of two years ago. This cannot
| be explained except that the people
are busy and are paying no attention
10 politics. Texas is the most pros
porous state in the union today and
| predict that they will not get excited
over politics and give Bryan such a
| heavy vote next month. The farmers
in north and central Texas are paying
up old debts they contracted years ago
| and all of them have money for any
thing they want They are hardly in
ciined to attribute il to the republican
administration but they are not ready
| Tor a change. The farmers have been
in debt for years and now that they
are paying out and building new homes
with plenty of money left they are not
going to vote against this state of
affairs. Few democrats in Texas will
vote for Mckinley but numbers of
| them will not vote at all They are
now getting $50 for a bale of cotton
| when four years ago they only got $50
| and they are forgetting about the pol
itics of their fathers"
"A mistaken idea about Mexico pre-
walls in the United States" said
George Beverage of San Francisco. at
the Sheldon. Il have heard many peo-
pie say in this country that they would
go to Mexico and invest their money
II the laws of that country would pro-
tect them. This means that thew do
not know anything about the laws of
Mexico. An investor in that country
had better protection than he has in
the United States and there is much
less trouble and uncertainty about
titles there than there is here | have
been mining on an extensive scale in
Mexico for over twenty years and have
never had the least trouble When
you get title to mining property in
mexico you have title from the pres
ident and there is no appeal from his
decree. President Diaz is friendly to
capital and in all my experience there
nave never heard of any one losing
cent on account of the laws or the
ruling of the courts"
The mines of the Copper Queen
company at Bisbee. Ariz.. have an in
teresting history" said a San Fran
cisco mining man at the Sheldon last
night The property was once lost
on a race between a burro and a sa
loon man. and for many years after
wards were in litigation. The mines
were discovered by prospector named
George Warren. George often drank
neaVliy and after the mines had been
developed considerably he was drunk
most all the time George Atkinson
came in there from the east and mt
up a saloon. Warren got drunk at
the saloon one day and Atkinson ban
tered him for race. Atkinson was
ridins small burro and wagered his
animal against Warren's mine that
the burro could outrun Warren a dis
lance or 100 yards. Warren called the
pet ana the race was pulled off. War
rem was too drunk to run and the
burro won. Atkinson took charge of
the mines and Warren began hard
drinking. hardly knowing what had
happened. Warren's friends were
about to get him to sue for the repIeyy
OF the property when Atkinson and his
associates had Warren put in iaiI
charged with lunacy. He was con-
Nicted and spent year in the territor-
lal asylum. When he was released
through the efforts of BRYAN O'Rcar
he endeavored to reclaim the proper-
w. He had given O'Bear power of at
torney and was about to get possession
OF the property when an agreement tn
sell was reached. The company had
agreed to give Warren s37 900 fer his
interest but just before the transfer
was made they bluffed O'Bear and he
agreed to take $4,000. Warren could
10 nothing more so left the country
with his $500. The property is now
worth about $4,000. 900 and five times
that amount had been taken out"
have been democrat all nv life
and am democrat yet" said a COM
mercial man at the Orndorff last night
out | cannot vote for BRYAN We
mad hard times for years and now
that everything is improving and the
country is prosperous I am not going
TO allow politics to interfere with me
ne policy of the administration NAV
De dangerous. but il means good times
Ior the present and / shall vote for Ms
N inley- If his policy begins to ruin
the country there are enough of the
patriotic citizens in the country to ar
rest IL before ii goes too far There
are thousands just like me who want
TO get some money ahead and then
remedy the evils if they continue to
exist If Bryan is elected il will de-
moraiize the west. the country that
gave me all have. and I shall vote to
Keep things as they are"
That well known character of Afri-
can descent. Mark Hanna of FL Paso. |
tells many unique stories The other
day while a man with lather on his
chin was lounging back in the big
black BARRIERS chair. Mark Hanna said:
The other day man come in here |
ana asst me if | was ever broke in a |
town
lie. he, he | thought he must be |
Joking Lord a massie, | been broke
more times than could mention. Once |
was in Dallas to the fair and didn't |
have dollar in my pocket | had