El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-13
'RING MEN MAKE STRONG TALKS IN
DEFENCE Of THEMSELVES As OFFICERS
On Trial, They Make Their Pleas Before the Court of
Public Opinion, Which Is to Return Them to or
Dismiss Them From Office-Park Pitman
Says He Is Best County Clerk Ever
Kelly Denies Some Charges

Waving aloft the banner of Oscar B.
Coluuitt as the gubernatorial candidate
of their choice, and daring the ants to
nail 10 the masthead at their headquar-
tiers the banner OF the man preferred by
them in this respect, the ring FRIDAY
night made another lap in the political
race which, as far as the Democrats are
concerned, will be at an end when the
polls close on July q.
With the approach OF the primaries
the candidates on both tickets have
taken of their coats and are fighting
every inch Of the way. jumping into
every loop hole left by the other. While
the antS are sure that they will win,
the ring entertains the same belief
Nothing definite viii be known until
the last vote cast on July p has been
Judge W. NJ. CoIdweu city attorney.
as usual, presided at the meeting Fri
day night He had something TO say
about Democracy, his favorite topic
incidentally he characterized the cam
paign of the ants as one Of vitupera-
ton and ylllifcation, and for this rea-
son he said they could never win. In
passing he struck q warning note that
had in it a battle cry against the Re
pubncans, and urged that the Demo
Gratis OF the county conduct themselves
10 the end that the common enemy of
the Democrats might forever be kept
relegated to the background as far as
local politics went
Campaign of VfIIifcatiOn.
The primary election on July q is
not by any means the final election"
said judge COldwel- 1t simply deteTm-
ines the choice of the Democrats as to
those who shall conduct the admins
traiOn OF its county affairS-the men
that the Democrats think most worthy
TO do this There are members of our
own party who seem to forget the OBJ
Ject OF Democracy. 1t seems that those
Democrats, those ants, think that in
order to secure the Democratic Selec-
ton. thew must StOOD to SlandpTlnG
every other Democrat, who on this
ticket IS a successful candidate for Of
ice The only argument that they make
IS 10 denOunce men the Democratic
party has hOnOred and put forward, the
men who the Democrats here have be-
Ieved IN for 20 years If you believe
them, these same Democrats have been
forced on the city and county for 20
years-these -grafters.'
Our opponents by their talk are
hourly strengthening the hands of the
Republicans, our common enemy. All
the Republicans viii have to do is to sit
still and quote from our opponents.
Their vlllihcation is injurious to the
community IN general They are Will
Tying the Democratic party and if they
are doing this, how can they ask the
people to elect other Democrats to Of
ice 1 DO not approve Of Democrats
slandering other Democrats whose only
object is to gain the endorsement by
the people at the coming election
County judge A S. J. Eylar. candidate
for reelection on the ring ticket as the
nlrst speaker was then introduced. He /
spoke as follows:
He Likes the Ring.
State senator Claude F. Hudspeth (
was then called upon. He said:
Since I have been in the city I
have heard the organization denounced
as "a ring 1t has been denounced as
such publicly and on the street and I
possibly IN the schools, in fact, L /
heard that in one school the question 1
was asked as to who was the great /
est Democrat in the country. One pu- /
pil said It was William Jennings Bry- !
an, one said Joe Bailey, another said 1
the ring, and yet another said the 1
anti ring.
Call the organization a ring if you
viii, but there is not a single specific )
charge Of corruption or graft that can !
be brought against it The Organi- |
zation has done more to build up your /
city than anything else Look at your
paved streets, and if there was any !
enterprises that would mean some /
thing to FL PdsO, the members Of the /
organization were always the ones to /
get out and try to get it here. An (
organization that makes for the up
building Of FL Paso, and that has been /
assisting in making it the great and /
beautiful city that it is, will always !
find me aligned with it
I have seen organizations of this /
kind" continued the senator, save 1
the democracy Of this state. But for !
an organization of this kind, Culber- !
son would nave gone down IN defeat I
at the hands Of the Republicans.
"A Gentleman of the Old school"
I recall a gentleman of the old /
school who came here from Tennessee,
and ever since he put his foot on /
Texas soil he has been fighting the !
battle of democracy But for an or /
ganizatiOn of this kind he would have /
suffered defeat at the hands of poll /
teal bushwhackers. If it had not
been for an orsaniza ton Of this kind.
which extends from FL Paso to
Brownsville, A. Y. Davidson would 4
have been defeated. An organizat ton
of this kind saved the state from
the blight Of prohibition at the last
election"
The ants, the speaker said, who
were denouncing the ring, were the
ones standing without the clover patch
looking in. and in his judgment they
would maintain that gaze for many
years.
He referred to the time that the
bill creating the eighth supreme ju-
cial district was up for passage in
the legislature He spoke about the |