El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-17
R0ss rifle IS THEME OF SPEAKERS
At HIGHLAND PARK ANYTHING MEETING

flee he SAID tnaG II was OiC u INC HOoO
i'm norfant offices in the county, for the
reason that the county Judge was chair
man of fine commissioners court, had the
handling of the county funds, and the
evDendin0 of them for roads and bridges.
SAYS Kelly Is Boss.
ssKaUv i the boss" said the Judge,
@and # does not matter to him whether
he. holds office or not. But he does not
chance the county judge very often.
The county iudge Is the business agent
of the county. He has the practical
holding and handling of the funds of
the county. The taxes collected he can
spend on roads and bridges and build
mos He spends money here and
there and elsewhere, and every place
IT is spent the man getting it Is placed
under obligations. The county Judge has
tbe appointment of road overseers, ditch
bosses. and working in conjunction with
fine ring. everything he puts out Is in
the shape of a political mortgage which
is foreclosed at election time.
'They change the sheriffs OFFICE,
asserted Mr. Bowden, some, because that
Is not so important 70 them, and 1t is
done to fool the people They also
charge the county attorney for the same
| reason.
Why Roads Were Built.
! on may IGLuenDtI the DuAlu441E VI
the county roads, and they were not
built until the favored few Of the ring
had acquired land, or unimpeachable
options on land either down or up the
valley. Some of them settled on the
island. and Immediately there was dis
covered a crying need for a road down
that way, and later a bridge. At Canu-
tillO they built two bridges.
Henry Kelly, Park Pitman and George
Huffman are the inside circle of the ring.
| The three constitute the cogS on the
main shaft. Judge EyIar is the nearest
part he is the big wheel. Over here Is
a little wheel lust buzzing around; that
| is Billy Bridgers 1t revolves a great
| deal, but that Is ike Billy; he talks
! a great deal and does not say anything.
Owen Discusses the Machine.
Charles Owen. candidate for the legis-
/ lature, said: I'VE need your support
4 for every man on the ticket. 1 would
| like to pay my respects to Mr.. Kelly for
/ the statements that he made the other
night, but the time is too short l will
/ do this at some other time.
They are saying" he continued, that
we are singing mud. That IS only the
/ despairing cry of discredited politicians;
the last refuge Of the men who see the
| handwriting on the wall.
I'VE expect 10 discuss the issues OF
| this campaign as long as we are candl-
dates. There are a great many mere
Y al IiCg of a split ticket. They are going
| TO -vofe- rfoH., "a SSS.Z3s~ because he has
! come to them and said that 'RS has had
only one term IN Office. My IfI3lllsi
Walter Howe only had one term in or,
flee and it was the work OF Edwards
that had most to do with his defeat.
Strike at the machine. Every ring
officehOlder is responsible first 10 Kelly,
and secondly to the people who voted
for him. If any illegal act IS committed,
1t IS not done so much for the benefit Of
the dOer, as for those on the ticket. If
the fraudulent poll tax receipts have
been issued. they were issued for the
benefit of all of them, not for the bene-
! fit of the man who issued them. That
is what we are fighting. The good people
of this community ought to 90 to the
polls on July q and register 4 protest
against such a system.
Fighting the System.
mo Mexican can 20 to work on the
county roads or any road, unless he
has a poll tax receipt and unless he
pledges himself TO support the ring.
There is not a single one of those men
who would dare to say that he Is going
to vote for the anti ring ticket, because
If he did, he would lose his job. There
'
tell a lie to save Kelly, and for that
they fired him. Because Hawkins an
nounced on the anti ring ticket, they
fired him. They thought it was such a
heinous offence for one to run for office
without their permission that they had
him indicted.
Ike Alderete Speaks.
Ike Alderete, candidate for reelection
as district court clerk, was then intro
dueed. Ike stated that he was appear
ing before an American audience for
the second time to make a speech in
English. For many years" Ike said, 4
have been a short stop for that ring.
They used to push me forward, and if
there was anything said, it was d.
Tected against me so that Park, Huffman
and Kelly might slip into office without
being noticed.
Il have been as faithful to that ring
IS a dog to its master; that IS, until a
year and half ago. Kelly came to me
in my office last October and said: Ike,
YOU can't run I said: Who are your
he answered: Well, the boys don't want
you to rum Who are the boys!' / asked.
I am an American Citizen 1 told Kelly,
and have the right to run for Of
flee l am going to stay in the race. I
am going to beat that bunch, and l am
going to beat them in April.
Now there is Hawkins. He is run
ming against Nontoya. You know Mon
toya. He is a big, wide, fat Mexican.
! have got the dope on that guy. He is
not deserving of the support of any
voter"
Trouble, Says Jackson.
Dan Jackson, candidate for Judge of
the S4th district court, when introduced,
declared:
I'VE have been warned that there is
going to be trouble on election day be-
low the tracks. We viii have a long bal
lot, and it is one of the tricks of the
ring to block the polls.
Nov the only thing that has been
urged in the meetings held by these
others" he continued, IS that we are
singing mud The majority of US an
| nOUnced our intention of running for
office some time in January At that
time there seemed to be a good natured
campaign carried on by both sides. Every
one was trying TO get everyone to 20 up
and pay his poll taxes.
Wanted a Look at the Books.
''Then in one of their meetings, Judge
Coldwell got up and asked for the reason
why the ring should be put out office
We gave them those reasons the first
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