El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-27
ZACH COBB ROAs1s AND TOASTs THE
ALLEGED POLITICAL RING BOSSES
Delivers Speech in Presence of Large Audience on Down
Town Street Denounces Policy Which Per
mits Wine Rooms and Allows Off
Gals to Own Ba wdy Houses-Is
For Ramsey and Sheppard

bossism and political graft as 1 am. 1
told them ! would do all l could for
them in FL Paso county, but received
kilograms from them that no matter if
Henry Kelly stole the whole of FL Paso
county from them they would be elect
ed by $4,000 majority Just the same.
1 am also for judge TOwnse for supreme
judge, and he mas been endorsed by
the bar of FL PasO.'
UncOyers Wine Rooms, etc.
Speaking of the conduct of official
business in this city Mr.. Cobb said:
Back of the restaurants in many
places are. wine rooms where men take
young girls and ruin them. Every night
young girls are being ruined in this
manner with the knowledge of the
Officers of the law 1 leave it to any
man who loves his mother that such
a condition is a disgrace to any city
in the United States.
ABE Rueft was a powerful boss and
CRATER, but he never had the nerve to
own and rent house in San Francisco
for immoral purpOSeS-he was salts
fled with a mere commission on the
lives of unfortunate girls. Ell Paso will
never achieve greatness so long as
men are so filthy as to vote for men
for public office who will own one of
that kind of houses for the profit there
is in It L say that if the local officials
are not corrupt they should take down
their sign
Mr.. Cobb here gave the history of the
paving of Arizona street to prove that
pany.
A "Ring' Bluff.
He referred to an incident in which
The editor of the FL Paso Herald was
concerned, saying I was one time
in a certain office in this city when
the telephone rang. It was a message
stating they were going to take MI
Slater, editor of The Herald, over to
the court and make him tell the in
side of things he had referred to in
print concerning the violation of GER
tain laws. Now, Mr.. Slater is a news
paper man in this community, and
Republican, and as Democrat can
say he is one of the most honorable FL
Paso loving men in the city, always
standing for the right in season and
out of season, and insisting that Ell
Paso respect the law and go forward
in line with everything that is good
and wholesome. Well, they took Mr..
Slater to the court house and demand
ed that he give a list of names of
people whom he had referred to in
connection with law violations. They
thought they could make monkey out
Of him, but they had struck the wrong
man he refused to give the list, CIV
ing as his reason that he did not think
they were honest in their intentions
at that time. They told him he would
be jailed if he did not name the men.
He consulted an attorney and after
wards told them he positively refused
to give the names, but that he would
give them to a grand jury for proper
usage. Did they put him in jail? No.
He called a lot of buffers and caught
them at their own game"
While the speech was being delivered
five or six notes were handed to the
speaker. One was statement that a
certain insurance company in town
was notified by the ring yesterday that
the insurance it held on public prop
erty would be cancelled If it continued
its support of the anti-ring ticket. An
other was from Cleveland square, where
a ring meeting was in progress, to
the effect that they had sent the band
master at the Cobb meeting word to
leave the meeting and come up there
Still another declared that public
funds had been deposited in one bank
when the bank where the deposit was
made paid One-fourth percent less, IN
der bid, than the bank which was re-
fused the deposit had offered to pay.
As to Ike AIderete.
Referring to Ike Alderete. Cobb said:
Is years, why can't we stand for Ike
for one term. Why doesn't the ring
praise Escajeda instead of knocking
Ike all the time2 They are broth ersin-
law The only thing about it is that
Escal eda used to be district clerk and
Ike beat him for the job. There are
lots of things that Ike has done that
/ cannot approve Of and there is one
thing that he should be heartily
ashamed Of-that is his association
with the ring.
There is this in favor of Ike. Every
vote that will be cast al the polls Sat
urday by his influence, will be cast
against the ring, for the redemption of
FL PasO. You above the tracks, before
you criticise Alderete, see that you do
as much. I have stood by the side of
Henry Kelly to boost FL Paso, then
why can't I stand beside Ike Alderete
to redeem FL PasO. Ike never owned
4 bawdy house"
The Rings |CIenn Men,
Somebody asked me today if I would
vote against a clean man on the ring
ticket. 1 said: Who is your clean man?
1 will say that there is one clean man
on the ring ticket; he is judge Eylar.
The ring has a faculty of putting some
clean men on the ticket to blind the
eyes of the voters as to the others.
I told them that they might cover the
others from my view with their clean
men, but they couldn't cover them
from my nostrils. I am going to scratch
the whole ring ticket because of what
it stands for"
Referring to an FL Paso paper that
boasts that it is the official organ"
the speaker said: We read it from
habit. but don't believe anything we
see in it,
The meeting closed with a speech by
judge A 5. ThurmOnd, who talked
mostly about roads, and told of alleged
Investments made by the members of
sequently been enhanced in value by
the use of public money expended in |
close proximity to it for bridges, and |
other improvements