El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-22
RING ON run
ANTS AFTER
BOSSES
Logical Arguments Against
Ring, Not Mudslinging,
Used by Anti Ring Men.
ANTS ARE SURE
TO WIN SATURDAY

people Us. the ring eL the men VINO
/ are fighting for the life of the old ma
/ chine organization, as bosses have done
1 Tor years, insist upon muddying the
/ political waters and hiding the real
/ issues under a cloud of personal abuse
and personal villification.
Ask them about the WaterworkS grab
and they refer to an anti-rlng candi-
GATE as a newcomer or Democratic
| back slider. Mention the sewage dis
posal plant and they counter with the
statement that they, the ring, are for
FL Paso, the men who made FL Paso
grow" Goke). It is ever thus when a
man is getting the worst of an argu-
ment to resort to personalities and
personal abuse in order to attract at
tention away from the real points at
issue, the cause of the people against
the ring.
These same issues are as clearly de-
tined as 1t has ever been known in FL
PaSo county politics. Political patron
age, long continued office holding at
the expense of the county, inefficient
management of great interests of the
county through the corrupt system of
political appoints where men should
De selected for their ability and not for
their politics. Absolute control of the
selection Of all county officers from
constable to court officials by Kelly,
the boss of both county and city ring,
the man who dares TO say who shall or
shall not fill the offices in Ell Paso
county and in the city of FL Paso.
The ring, in its usual wiley way,
the results of political patronage by
saying, "Oh, well, the county has Moth
ing to do with the city" But has it
nothing to do with the city? Is not
the city at the present time paying
practically all of the big tax assess
ments to the county and are not the Of
f1cerS of one working with the Of
ficers of the other at the present time
to perpetuate themselves in office Any
sane minded man knows that the city
and county ring are one and the mem
bers of il make no bones about it.
BoSsiSm, both in FL PasO and FL PasO
county must go. Now is the time for
all good men to come TO the aid of
their party and swat the combination
ring. a vote for the ring at the pri-
maries Saturday means a vote for the
ring at the city election next spring.
Kelly is both and his machine seeks to
control the affairs of both city and
county perpetually, in order that he
ana MS pals may grow tat in office
They are in office for revenue only and
stand
There is no principle in the ring
Just as there is no principle in a man
who is for whatever will bring him
the greatest gains This. was Illus
trated at the time Gov. Woodrow Will
son was nominated. The ring sent its
delegation to Houston to work. and
vote for the man selected by the state
political machine for preSident-Har-
mon, and If not Harmon then Clark.
ed by them as he is not the man want
ed by the bigger bosses of Tammany
hall, and for the same reason. He can
not be controlled and no boss, big or
little wants a man in office who will
not dance when they pull the string.
But the minute that Wilson's nominal
ton was assured and the election of a
democratic president in November a
certainty, one of their hirelings rushed
out OF the Democratic ring headquar-
ters and daubed Wilson's name on the
banner which had been stretched across /
the street A beer garden ring meet
ing had been planned for the same
night. When the anti-ring announced
that it would have a genuine Wilson
ring played a second fiddle and came
trottng along with hand bills an
nouncing a Wilson ratification meet
ing at the Brewery garden. At this
meeting Park Pitman demanded the Of
flee OF county clerk because he had
held II Tor 20 years, and the other can
d1dateS did likewise. The ring delega-
ton to the Houston convention were
the avowed Wilson men from FL PasO
county, yet they had the effr0ntery to |
declare for Wilson as their candidate |
and mad signs painted reading. Vote !
for Wilson-COlquitt and the Regular /
Democratic Ticket" Regular means /
Ring and Ring means rottenness.
Did you notice how skilfully the ring
hlrelings sidestepped the big issues of |
this campaign at the meeting Friday
night. Not a word was said about the |
waterworks grab, the sewage disposal |
failure or the auditors report of the I
city finances. These are the city af- /
Lalrs, but they are just a S vital at this !
time as at city election since the i
same men control both city and county. /
senator W. W. Turney was put up to /
answer judge GOggin but, as usual !
JAILED to come within a city block of /
llm, much less answer his logical ar /
Suments- The truth was that these ar !
: ha q Ms E-nrsn n ffNr-I
-ney were the truth and the ring as /
Well as the public know it. After buy !
nS the waterworks for 100000 more
nan II was valued at, the city immedi-
stely placed its political workers and /
lenchmen In charge The water office !
vas nice, fat thing for some of the
men who are willing to do the dirty
Work Tor the ring. No sooner had the
.lty taken over the WaterWOrks plant
nan raise Of so percent was an
bounced Just why this raise was I
necessary when 1t was notorious fact
nat the old company had been over
marrying was not explained. But that |
vas not the worst of it. Rates were
2 SEQ to a point where they became
Small property owners
nd householders who had been pay
ng 80 cents. the minimum under me
Id rate, saw their bills raise each
month until they were paying 81 and s.
q the privilege of using Il little wa
or from the city ring plant. This is
question which has affected each
property owner for the eXtortiOn has
cen universal throughout the city
.aWns which have been watered and
odded and fertilized for years to get
hem green must be allowed to die be-
ause the property owners cannot af-
ord TO pay 50 a month for water to
prinkle with. Yet the ring says, vote !
OF the men who have made Ell Paso !
row.
As if this was not sufficient along
anne the auditors report of the city's !
nanc1al affairs in which two para |
raphs were devoted to the affairs of |
MS same water company. The accounts |
ere so badly muddled that nine or ten
avs had to be consumed in straighten-
lg them out, the report said. Due bills !
nd personal checks were left in the
ASH drawer for cash which was taken. |
here was more than $4,000 on hand /
hen the check was made, although
ne receipts from the office do not !
mount to more than $500 or $500
ay. Is 1t your money, Mr.. Taxpayer
mich is being taken out and due bills
IT in its place? Are you paying the |
eight for the inefficient management
the water company's affairs? Think
lis over and then think Who
responsible. There IS but one corr
set answer and this is the ring.
90 down the county road and take a
h1ff at the sewage disposal plant | /
hich cost the city 100000 and is
orth less than 80 cents. This is an
her of the rings 1irf1a Of arf