El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-24
AN 7 Is HAVE
RING GANG
On RUN
Voters Warned Against
Trickery and Intimidation
at Polls Saturday.
TIME TO END THE
RULE OF THE BOSS
A kicked dog always nowIs.

J anti ring speakers have handed them a
/ KICK where it will do the most good
and the ring is on the run with an &C
compartment of yelps and bowls about
clean government, purity IN politics
! and great morality, assumed by their
workers temporarily and for political
purposes only.
The truth is that the ring gang for
the first time in their sweet and 1nno-
cent young lives are licked to finish.
They are looking for cyclone cellar
into which they can crawl after the
| storm OF public indignation has passed
over them next Saturday and swept
dldates from the county payroll. They
! are desperate, are these professional
officeholders, political henchmen whe
make no other pretense than 20 do poll .
Jlcs Tor living and who are in on all
OF the petty grating and dirty deals
which have been pulled off in the name
OF the ring and by its sanction.
SixshOOters Saturday.
Political trickery of the first water
the kind that has been discredited in
! every other community in the state
/ and nation, is to be resorted to next
| Saturday by the ring organiZa ton in
| last desperate effort to pull its candi-
dates out of the muck into which they
! have put themselves ROWdyism, always
] the resort OF rOWdieS. is to be used
| knowing that they cannot win on their
| merits the ring IS determined to bully
| the officers and force the election to 60
| their way IN spite of the people. The
! old remnant of the gun toting days,
4
I worked at the polling places Saturday.
| Either paid officers of the city or
county ring or special deputies sworn
in by them, will be placed at each of
| the voting places for the express pur-
! pose of intimidating the voters, es-
! pecially the Mexican population who
are Worklng Tor the anti ring ticket
/ Should one of these men attempt to
/ vote the anti ring ticket he will be
! arrested as an example and the other
| anti organization voters Will be warned
] - y ct I'D hnT
1 attempt to vote against the all wise
I and all good ring.
SixshoOter elections are out of date
/ in FL Paso. Whether on the north
/ side or south side the intelligent vot-
| ers are not going to stand for any
/ rough stuff and should the ring at
/ tempt to pull anything of this kind
over they will find that their methods
! will return in the form of anti ring
/ votes of protest and they will be
: SWatted by their own little movement
/ They make fun of r. V. Bowden be-
cause he was inundated by this same
style Of sixshooter election rule four
years ago when ne was county chair
man The facts are plainly shown in
the papers of that date that the special
deputies were armed and plac there
for no other purpose than to intimi-
date the voters Have they ever de-
MED what Mr.. Bowden claims2 Not I
much, for they know themselves that
II is the truth Because sheriff F. J.
Hall was candidate for reelection two
years ago, the ring found that il could
not put over any raw deal like this
with the sheriff in office
In addition to the gun game. the
city. which has nothing whatever to do /
with the county politics, will discover
about Saturday that there is a lot Of
work to be done on the streets and
that if the Mexican WoTkmen viii see
fit to forego their right to vote as tax
paying citizens they can earn a double |
wage working on these streets and |
roads. The city will pay the freight. 1
Such a shOddy trick as this is a credit |
only to the juvenile in politics The |
railroads, who accept special favors |
from the CITY and county administra- /
ton in the form of guards for their I
properties, special low water rates, I
etc. are. being urged to get as many !
as possible of the anti ring employees I
out on the road next Saturday in or /
der that they will not be able to vote
What does this all mean Mr. Tax 1
payer and Mr.. Clean CitiZen2 It means /
but one thing The ring is determined /
to remain in power at any cost II /
means that they will retain their fat I
jobs even by bringing back the old 1
vote herding, buy-and-seH system /
which was discredited years ago by the /
clean element in FL Paso-
How About the Questions:
Did the rinG answer any OF the ques-
tons we asked them Tuesday after
noon? You can bet your last plugged
nickel they did not And what is !
more they are not going to, for there is
but one answer to each of the questions
put squarely to the ring and that an i
SWer IS the only one IN the WOrlu LndL
that crowd will not dare to make. To 4
repeat, the answer TO each of these
questions, the answer to any OF the
glazing abuses which exist and have
existed under ring rule in FL Paso and
FL PaSo county is 'bossism." Do you
think for one minute that they are
holding. office and keeping up the or
ganizatiOn for their health? Who is
paying the freight for the campaign (
OF cheap graft they are making2 why
are they anxious to win next saturday
a. n inc II inn
win forever Because their lives de- I
pend upon their winning They not I
only wish to keep their front feet IN
the feeding trough, but there are
things in the offices that they do not
wish some unsympathetic JfficialS to
investigate Whitewash can be Ip-
piled to q ring fence from within but
the whitewash from without surely
does burn the eyes of the ringsters.
What did they answer to the charge
that Park Pitman had collected money |
illegally in his office? They say that
if Park did it illegally he did not
know it That Park is no lawyer and
county judge and the commissioners
who gave him the contract. Does not
the law plainly state that the county
clerk shall make and keep such induces
Park is no lawyer and he is not re-
Sponsible for having violated the law.
>, What is their answer to the sewage
disposal plant They say that 1t was
not contracted for by this administra-
ton but by the last and that this ad-
ministration is only completing the
work Of the other. But is not the same
ring organization responsible for the
last as well as the present county and
city administrations The fact is that
the sewage disposal plant is not worth
80 cents for any other but perfume
making purposes. That it has deprecl-
ated values in the vicinity of its lOca-
ton and has cost the city 100000. Is
that the kind Of administra ton of pub
lie affairs and public moneys. your
you want in the offices of FL
PasO and FL Paso county,
''Tke Democrat n Joke.
The other questions remain unan-
swered. The ring has put out a two
by four publication and called it the (
Democrat. In this the candidates take
turns abOosting themselves and knock
ing their opponents Billy Bridgers |
tells what great man J. D. Ponder is
and judge Ponder tells of the qualifica- !
tions of J. D. Ponder for county treas
urer
Why do they not answer the list of
questions we have put sqUarely up to /
them in their tin horn sheet2 There is 1
but one answer to these questions. That ;
is that they dare not answer the ques- ! ,
tons, for they know that there is but J
one correct answer and that is bOSzisD1 ! ]