Imperial Valley press., 1908-09-19
DlSCREDITABLE POLITICS
 IN FIGHT FOR JUDGESHIP
Corporations and Tinhom Politicians PernciouSly Active. Boxes Stuffed With ChOIO Votes at Republican Primar- e8, Cole Bolts and EShIeman Denies Accusations

HOltviile Outside-JOel Anderson, w. B. Richards, l.. D. Smith, Geo. Whit lock, J. N Patton, J. A. Harvey, P. N. Ferguson, D. A. Wheeler.
 Holtville Inside-Major s. Cook, Lee F. Sargent P. B. Shaw, U R. Colvert, Walter P. Clancy, Lee Robinson.
 Laguna Precinct--Frank Dastle, John Martinez, J. A. Bailey .. D. Monray, B. P. Brown
 El Centro, with 182 voters registered for the election last April, cast a to- tal of 9S votes. CaleXiCO with only 143 voters registered last spring, and a great many citizens not yet returned from summer vacations, professes to nave cast 303 Republican votes at the primary. The voting at Calexico was fraudulent on the face of the returns It is known that the bosses at Cal eXico telephoned to Imperial asking that more voters be sent down from that city.
 Juoge Cole Bolts.
 ! Inc result of the primaries was so unsatisfactory to Judge Cole that he concluded not to go into the conven- tion
 The following communication ex- plains ITS position;
 Open Letter.
 To the voters of Imperial County;
 1 wish to announce at this time through the press that I do not wish my name presented as @ candidate for Judge of the Superior Court at the sOcalled Republican convention to be -eld on Saturday, September g, 1908.
 I have worked fairly and conscien- tiOusly to secure a fair expression of ,I.1 e d. In this I have failed for the primar- ies at BraWley and Calexico were con- ducted unfairly to myself and not rep resentatiye of the party. Also in other precincts delegates who were elected by my supporters have been found to have been pledged for another can didate.
 I know that a majority of the peo- pie of this valley stand for honest politics and that they are not willing to allow the dishonest and treacher- Ous politicians to snatch their votes from their hands and put up a rep resentatiVe of their kind for an office as sacred to the people as the one I have had the honor of filling for the past year
 Therefore I am asking for no SUD- port in said convention, but do now announce myself an independent can didate for the office of Superior Judge.
 FRANKLIN J. COLE.
 EshIemans Eenial.
 Mr. Eshleman contributes to the pre- vailing political gayety the following: Editor Imperial Valley Press:-
 Inasmuch as Judge Cole has, in a signed statement published in the I'm perial Daily Standard, charged that delegates who were elected by his supporters in Fl Centro and else where, have been found to have been pledged to another candidate" "and he refers there also to dishonest and treacherous politicians, and inasmuch as the editor of the Standard takes up the cudgel and alleges this is a direct slap at me, l imagine those people of this county, who know of my public career, will be inclined to do me the justice of reserving their opinion, until they at least know some of the facts.
 The time is short before the con- ventiOn and one cannot possibly run to earth every scurrlous statement emanating from interested sources, but even though this charge is made, as such charges usually are, at the eleventh hour it has been possible to brand a great part of the state ment in the Standard as false. The following signed statement by the delegates from El Centro is self eX- planatory and shows how much foun- dation in fact the attack has; To Whom it may Concern:-
 This is to certify that we, the un- dersigned, delegates from El Centro precinct, have never been pledged to any candidate for Superior Judge, other than Judge Cole |. C. F. Hayden, F. B. Putnam, Robert P Shepherd, Phil D. Swing, Fl. c. Griswold, J, Stanley Brown, Paul Bo- man, w. B. Gibson, c. F. Buttress.
 R. E. Jauman, the only remaining delegate, is out of the valley and I have never at any time, discussed pol itics with him.
 Very truly,
 JOHN M. ESHLEMAN.