El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-01
It Looks AS If Hammet1
Will Easily Win Out
AT the Primaries.

WAYS and means committee and got to-
gether to discuss means for the raising
and distribution of funds and also to
talk over the advisability of the with
drawal OF Caples. 1t is said that Mr..
Caples. Charley de Pat. and one or two
others emphasized the hopelessness OF
the situation and urged that the thing
| be stopped before utter ruin resulted
but Charley Morehead would not listen
to their suggestion and told them that
the fight for supremacy must be to the
death. and added that IL they did quit
now the situation was so desperate that
utter defeat could not be much worse.
4 As usual the boss carried his point and
about three hundred dollars was then
and there subscribed to buy votes.
Money tc Burn.
The Hammett crowd has money to
burn ana it is being burned. Joe Ros-
ers, Joe Escajeda. Frank and Ike Al
derete and others are burning 1t in the
second ward.
The Hammett corral is at Chopin
hall. where a brass banG is discoursing
music and where about three hundred
voters had assembled as early as ten
o'clock this morning. They will be
fed and moistened and kept together
until the primaries open.
corral is at the notorious Red Light
dance hall and saloon. Pat Dwyer de-
iivered a fiery harrange to about a
dozen bought voters there last night
He and Charley de Pat are doing noble
work. They arc dashing here and
there about the town trying to herd up
voters and both wear handkerchiefs
coiled about their throats and their
eyes are infiamed. They look bad
The primary election has now de-
volyed itself into purely question of
Doodle. The large sums contributed so
literally to the Hammett fund co not
greatly exceed the amounts raised by
the Morehead faction.
1t is stated that Hammett's manager
stanGs ready to call any amount put out
by the Morehead crowd. and II is also
said that this morning the Caples
crowd got word to pay 81 for any vote
for which the other side had offered 81.
The devil is being fought with fire
and fought to a finish. The result OF
the election means much
The Police Active.
The police force while still drawing
salaries from the city are laying on
almost to a man today and working for
Caples. II is not their fault; they are
compelled to do it by circumstances
great many of them are individually for
Hammett and had so announced. but
when Caples was forced out. the boss
passet the word down the lire to the
chief and the policemen had 10 change
front-all but a few who realized that
Morehead was leading Caples and the
others to Waterloo
Gamblers Called.
A good many of the gamblers. IL Is
eas. "A 10 h., nfffcInnG
in their efforts in behalf of the More
head -Caples combination Saturday and
Il was found necessary to call their
hands. They were given to understand
that at the best they were running
merely by sufferance and IT would be
no trick at all to close them up. Ii Is |
presumed that they took the hint. A
hint to the wise is said to be sufficient. |
VIII Pat Be Chief?
IL is currently reported on the streets |
this afternoon and generally credited |
that in event. Morehead should succeed |
in capturing the convention, which /
now seems impossible. :he nomination /
will not go to Caples but to Magoffin.
IL is also said that Pat Dwyer is slated
,or chief of police should his ticket win.
Juarez Voters.
A late report this afternoon says that
he supporters of Mr.. Caplcs were max
ng an effort to haui people by the
wagon load over from Juarez but that
his attempt was discovered in time to-
De frustrated by Hammett men.
Kicking Hard.
A we'll known democrat who Is
working hard for Hammett said to a
Herald reporter this morning,