El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-04-30

It was failure. What few voters
! there were present were either employees
OF the ring Officers, active workers
Ii the ring cause or aspirants for DO
ltical offices.
No Need to Talk Politics.
There was no need TO talk politics to
them in support OF the trustee ticket.
They would vote right without it. Frank
and Ike Alderete's Mexicans were rep
resented by only one row in the back
OF the theater so there was no occa-
sion for mi amigos speech by judge
Harper or anyone else. AS was said
half a dozen times during the meeting.
the men on the platform were cock sure
that the ring" ticket would be elected
on May Z, SO there was no campaign
ing to be done there.
A Tony Affair.
There was nothing OF the ''unwashed
about that meeting Friday night. II " as
the collar a day crowd" this time.
| There were no votes to be made there
and the ring" Politicians were smooth
enough TO see it, 1t was therefore turn
ed into an apologize session for the
old school board and a joIiying bee for
the teachers who were out in force.
There was where Hon. ". w. Turney
got In his keynote work. Dressed in his
best bib and tucker, Mr.. Turney sound
ed the keynote good and loud. 1t is the
teachers that the ring is protecting
these teachers, the finest in the state,
than whom there are no better, ETC. AS
! the question of the teachers and their
salaries had never entered into the cam
pafgn before. the teachers who were
present were taken a bit by surprise,
but they responded nobly and applauded
everything the senator and his col
leagues in the cause said, the applause
being led each time by E. Atnelstan
Ross, superintendent of manual training
IN the schools.
The chairman was Adrian Pool at
present understood TO be a candidate
for Tom Lea's place as city judge.
Adrian was buster than a bird dog, be-
foEe the meeting opened. In judge Ely
lars best style Pool introduced the
speakers of the evening as if their
names had just occurred to him when
in reality they had all been handed
to him by Louis Behr, city collector
and the ringmaster behind the scenes.
All day Friday, Adrian had been in
constant communication with Henry
Kelly, ct al, and the meeting was more
or less in the nature of an Adrian Pool
meeting since he had worked it up
among the school teachers and assist
ed in rounding up the ring" crowd to
make a showing.
The Jackson Episode.
1t was IN the Middle OF the meeting
that Adrian's great coup came-or
rather was to have come. Seated out
in front, third row from the back, left
side to be exact. was Dan Jackson and
his brotherinlaw. Dan ana Gunther were
there for purpose Dan was due to
make a speech and Gunther to start the
applause. That was plain, but just how
il was to happen was the question.
Right in the middle Of the meeting
Pool arose, planted one foot in front OF
the other and, looking at perfectly
blank envelope, announced that as he
did not have his glasses he could not
nead the name This was Dams cue and
before anyone had even whispered Dan
Jack son, the faithful out in front be-
gan to look in the direction OF that
third row back on the left side. But
Dan had read the handw riting on that
blank envelope and had got out In the
center aisle, where the lightning could
strike. Henry Kelly, DR.. Brady and the
others who had gone out in front of the
theater TO smoke while things moved
along inside, came in and nudged each
other. But some way Dan did not get
his wind machine to working good and
Pools pet plan fell pretty flat. OF