El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-04-08

ing kettle full Of well water favored
with lemon in Cleveland square Monday
night
While the ring meeting was I'm
progress in the city park the red fire
from the Citizens meeting in Pioneer
plaza could be seen against the back
ground of the night and the crowd
kept drifting from one meeting to
the other. cheering both sides Impair
TALLY and making a gladstone holiday
of the closing efforts of the two or
CARNATIONS to corral the voters.
w. II. Burgess was the principal
speaker at the ring mass meeting,
although mayor C. i. Kelly made an
appeal to the people present for their
votes and promised nothing, he said,
in the next two years that he had
not done in the past two years when
he had worked Il hours a day for
the people" Mayor Kelly continues to
improve as a public speaker. despite
the fact that he was forced tOslubri-
cate his voice every few moments at
the cooking dish fountain beside Mr..
Burgess, who wet nursed a lemon while
the mayor spoke.
Burgess VenOmOus and Personal.
M Burgess speech, like the one he
delivered to close the campaign at the
county election last summer. was char
acteristically venomous and personal
There was no lost motion about Mr..
Burgess speech. He rolled up MS
sleeves. pushed back his cuffs, and
waded into the candidates and plat
ing his compliments to the FL PasO
Herald by saying that Texas was
great state in spite OF The Herald anu
( Fl Paso great city in spite OF The
Herald and the Citizens ticket doing
their best to drag IL down. Mr.. Bur
ges was introduced by Ballard Cold
well as the ~rObable next president
OF the American Bar association and
the head Of the legal profession In
FL Pas0.
Il am coming to cold steel issues"
Mr. Burgess said. THE platform Of
the Citizens ticket is only a few gen
eralities. fl doesn't mean anything and
was not intended to mean anything.
They tell how they viii lead the
people out Of FL PasO- into the happy
land OF Canaan. The only offices they
Canaan. one man on the ticket was
with the ring until it was neces-
sary to pry him away from the pub
lie crib. He then went over to tins
AGGREGATION Of misftts I refer to Put
nam. Another eN-alderman who is
candidate on the platform OF reform
lived here when the gambling fight
was made. I was here then and
know what his record was on that
subject and YOU will find recorded
report Of the committee saying that II
does not favor suppression OF PUBIC
gambling in Fl PaSO. That man IS NJ
3. Davis. and his name is on the report
eve kept as free from personalities
as possible. But we found IL necessary
TO brand the statements OF stanton,
Stuart. and O'Quinn IS lies, as lies they
were I fought gambling in FL Paso
years ago and fought IL hard. Two
men on the opposition ticket were
in FL PasO at that time yet they never
contributed a dollar or one effort TO
end 10. I know because I was on the
firing line. Their reformation is OF a
very. recent date.
The ordinance establishing the red
light. district was passed in 1892 and
made a living letter in 1898. The In
-70tee we've made to obey II and u
was found the best thing to do ana
as considered the best thing in FL
Paso. There is no way to escape 1t
vet. although we have the young
Christian. Gunther leasing. and the
scrupulOus ". 3. Ware trying 10 show
how clean a city should be by their
moral reCtitude- I appeal to Seth Low,
former mayor Of New York City, TO
James Bryce and the supreme court or
the United States to prove that the
system here is the best one TO meet the
conditions.
-CItIzens- and Clean Elections.
"The Citizens ticket say they want
clean elections They would not know
a clean election If they met it in the
road. They will get one tomorrow but
il will be none Of their doing. I sup
pose DR.. Miller wants clean elecu0n
when he is not a legal resident Of III
Paso and could be a proud and happy
mother as well as he could legally De
elected 20 office. ] wonder that this
pious grand jury does not indict him
7 know the last one did not.
They want law enforcement the
night before election Yet not one OF
the candidates who were down on
Stanton street dishing out beer to lit
tie children has rushed to the grand
jury and asked to be indicted for vio-
lating the law
They want to know what is in the
city books The city had an audit
last wear and today the auditors are at
work bringing the audit down to the
close of this administration. They
do not want to know what is in the
city books, they want to know how
to get out what is in the city DOCKS
"They talk about the water company
Today you are getting 20 cent water
per 1000 gallons when the private com
pany could not furnish II Tor less tnan
80 cents. That audit went into every /
dollar of that transaction and showed
dollar for dollar paid out and taken IN.
II all went honestly"
Burgess Gets n Note.
At this point Mr. Burgess was inter
rupted by being handed a note which
had been brought from the Citizens
meeting where NJ. w Stanton was
speaking. Burgess took time TO make
a characteristic verbal assault on Stan
ton and on G. P. Putnam
Burgess. continuing his speech. said |
that no man could be forced to put I
paving down in front OF his house He /
knew that because the street running /
alongside his house had not been paved. !
want" he said. and. until they do. !
they viii not get it unless 7 go over
TO their way of thinking, and, when
do. I will be a great deal older man !
Mayor KeIIy's Talk.
Mayor q. e. Kelly. who made the
first speech. said: They have down
on Stanton. street. you all know that
name Stanton, a banner stretched
across the street on which IS written,
Citizens Ticket George Oliver, one
of the principal supporters Of that (
ticket is the same George Oliver that ]
three years ago sent boys into a saloon |
TO buy whisky so that he could get
that saloonkeeper's license He got il !
all right and he and that saloon man I
are now lying in the same political bed |
together.
Il have reason to believe that this /
same Oliver was instrumental in hav-
ing Ike Alderete indicted two years /
ago for white slavery Now he and !
Ike are in the same political bed"
Continuing. the mayor said IF YOU 1
expect any more from me during the I
next two years than you got during the 1
past two years 7 don't know how you /
ere going to get fl. During the past /
two years 7 have worked "a hours a 4
day for the city and / expect to and am 4
Eoing to work the same length OF time I
for the city during the next two years. J.
Last June there was produced 1.5Oo,- /
600 more gallons of water thap the peo-