El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-13
ave told the truth just as well
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DR.. Brady,s Affidavit.

the drug business, and I wanted a man
| to work in there, I would not go to a
! butcher shop, I would not go to a shoe
shop to get one and 1 would advise
/ the people of Ell PasO to vote for an at
/ torney Tor county attorney, and not Tor
| a StenOgrapher.
They say that I let Armendariz out
on political grounds. 1 have in my Of
flee a request from the grand jury,
( signed by y men, asking me TO let him
out.
IF you read the papers. you would
think THAT 1 was running for office but
( / am not Every time they have a pub
| lie meeting they jump on the city water
| works. Before the city took over the
I water works the citizens were clamOr-
| ing for water. They wanted the mesa
water Today we are pumping 100000
more gallons on the mesa than is neces-
/ Sary to run Ell PasO. We never did
/ promise that. but we have done it"
Fought Battles of Democracy.
When Park Pitman got up to speak
} he was given an ovation. He started
/ out by saying that he had been here q
years, and during all that time he had
| fought the battles of Democracy.
4 have held the office of county clerk
/ for 16 years." he said. For Is years"
The second time he said it, he shouted
! it as a challenge, and II was louder
! than the first time.
/ During all those years my integrity
| has never been questioned until this
! hour. There are three kinds Of people
| IN this campaign, my friends, my enc
! mics, and those who do not care about
the candidates one way or the other It
| is those people 1 want to speak to-"
! When Pitman started to make his
J speech he declared that he was no ora
tor but finally he concluded that he
! was regular Zach Cobb
| IndexinS of County Books.
! THE other night NJ. W. Stanton said
1 in his speech" the county clerk con-
| tinued. that he could show you where
( Park Pitman had taken $4,000 from the
/ county; that he had no more right to
| that than the people would have to the
/ $3.50 he had in his pocket"
! Mr.. Pitman referred to the indexing
( of the county books that he had done,
I and which the ants said he had no right
/ to charge for He stated that the books
/ were old and obsolete and the attor-
neys were anxious to have them so ar
/ ranged that they could be useful B.
/ T. Thomas. Mr. Pitman said, the then
county clerk, had in pursuance to con
| tract made with the commissioners
court agreed TO index the books but
upon examination it was found that
/ his work was incomplete. Judge J.
r. Harper, who was then county judge,
| and commissioners under him, Mr.. Pit
man said, wanted him to take over the
books and index them properly, and to
this end entered into a contract with
him
Worked Pretty Long Hours.
There was no law on the statute
books that could compel a county clerk
! TO do that character of work said Mr..
Pitman. This contract was made in
May, 1901, y years ago. I had George
BOvee, Chris Amanda. C F. English and
others helping, but did the burden of
the work. 1 would work at night and
on holidays. Sometimes I would get up
at o'clock in the morning and come
down to the office and work on the
books. and my wife would call me TO
breakfast. I finished the work or
rather over work in two years, and
got less than $500 for it. Out of that I
paid S110O for the clerks and 1 had left
about $500"
He then cited the case Of the county
clerk of Tarrant county, which was a
contract to place description Of land
in the indexes of the books for which
he was to be paid five cents for each
description. He said that the county
clerk of that county was finally com
polled to bring suit for the money prom /
ised, and after the case had gone
through the various state courts, on
June II. 1911. the supreme court Of the
state held that the county clerk could 4
not collect. Mr. Pitman stated that
when he saw the decision, he called in
some of the best lawyers in FL PasO and /
wanted to find out just what his posi- |
ton was They agreed, he said, that !
his case and that of the county clerk |
of Tarrant county were not similar, in
asmuch as the character of work Pit /
man had done was altogether different I
and that there was nothing that could I
compel a county clerk to perform the
services
Best Books in State.
THE work had been done i years
before the supreme court 4ldu ItllLtA ctA
a decision on the Tarrant county case, |
and the attorneys he called in had de-
cided that his was not a parallel case; I
that the work he had done was outside
of the duties of every county clerk Of
the state
7 took the contract in good faith
said the county clerk, I worked on
the books outside Of my office hours
and 1 have placed in the county clerks (
office the best set of indeNed books in
the state. Every man has said that l
arnN n
ever be done for the county. I am on
trial. I am in the same class as VIII
liam Jennings Bryan and Zach Cobb
There are a lot of little fellows here
barking at my heels. If I have ever
done any wrong thing, there is your
grand jury, there Is the law. j came
into this world with a smile on my
face, and I am going out of it with a
smile on it
Too Smart To Be Lawyer.
IF I get defeated, ] Will read law !
about 10 minutes, and I will be able 10 !
beat some of the fellows on the other |
ticket at it. Ny father was a lawyer /
practiced law for 81 years. He tried to |
get me to practice law, but said: Pa, !
l am too smart to practice law
They say that 1 have held office too (
long. I want to say that 1 am more to 4
been on the job, and If any man comes 4
into my office to ask for information ]
he gets it, cheerfUlly and quickly. I /
am acquainted with the workings of |
the office because I have been there. |
L know how it ought to be run.
These little rat-tails talk about the I
indexing of the books. The eNigencies I
Of the case demanded that they be ar /
ranged.
Il can look you in the eye today: |
I can look you in the eye tomorrow. 1 /
viii look you in the eye on July p, and 1
on July % 1 Will be elected"
Prohibition BugaboO.
Pitman said that the county organi- /
cation stood for o. B. COlquitt for gov I
ernor. and he asked the labOring men /
TO vote for him Vote against him."
the speaker said, and you will have /
prohibition staring you in the face. You
viii have prohibition fastened on the
people, and you will never get rid of
it" /
He concluded by saying that the rea-
son that he took up so much of their /
time was that he was on trial. his char
acter had been assailed for the first
time in his life. ASK the people who |
have been here said Pitman, what /
kind of a. man Pitman is, and I viii
abide by their verdict"
NealCn Speaks.
Joseph VI. NealOn, candidate for Judge 4
Of the saith district court, said:
Public officials must expect abuse
as long as petty politicians and 6is-
appointed office seekers can find 90
pie to listen to them. 1t has been so
from the foundation Of the reDublic.