El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-04-05

man who controls before the election is
the man who Will control afterward- T
DO you want your city conducted by
mud singers or by progressive citi-
zensE
Burgess Not Mad.
r. f. Burgess, next on the platform,
said; 4 ought to XIII Bob Holiday
for calling upon me, but 1 viii not
ought TO be a closed season for ex-
ecutives and he is an executive to-
night said can't make a speech
unless / get mad and nothing has &C
CURED since ] returned 10 FL PasO to
make me mad I went around town
today hoping would meet enough OF
the opposition to make me mad, but
I didn't / picked up a Herald today
and there was a column and a half
on the last page and another column
and half on another page about this
campaign. 1t might have made me
mad, had it not made me Disguised
4 didn't know the sffiant. As a
member Of the bar / should know him
but 1 have not seen him. Perhaps be-
cause he has been spending so much
Of his time running from crib to crib.
7 present to YOU in all fairness, that
the Citizens ticket is composed Of Re
publicans and disgruntled Democrats.
lately they have learned nationally,
that they have no chance so their only
hope is a Citizens ticket" ('The Citi-
zens' League" some one in the back Of
Z NO" said Burgess. Not that. the
Citizens League at one time consisted
OF 1900 members, and they have not got
away with that many
since the cattIemen's convention 7
met and talked to dozens OF men and
did not meet a single one nor did i
not loud in praise Of FL Paso. There
is nothing too good for them to say
OF FL PasO's public improvements
livery once in while someone asks
many things But, there is one thing
that never did make any city great and
that is a corrupt and grating admin
istratiOn- If IL is great city, then
there is no necessity to dwell at length
upon the slanderers- Some Of them
don't know a good city when they see
it or they are 50 narrow minded and
venomOus they don't want to FL Paso
has grown, but not on the kind Of food
thew want to dish out.
I was here in 1902 when meeting
similar in character to the one on
Stanton street was held on Utah street
The candidate referred to C. p. Put
sion that the schools should be taken
out Of politics
Supporting the Nominees.
you have been told a number Of
times IN print that the man who par
ticipates in the Democratic primaries
| dates Of those primaries Now, if the
persons making this contention mean
Z
be taken before the grand jury and
! indicted, they are right. But. If they
say the man who pledges himself TO
support those candidates need not do
so, we viii gladly tell them to go from
hence, for we don't want to make up a
party from that kind Of cattle.
1t is not obligatory to participate IN
the primaries, but If man goes IN
he is bound to support the candidates
nominated. I don't believe that the
citizenship Of FL Paso believes that the
I interests Of FL PasO viii be subserved
by defeating the Democratic party. I
believe, and every man who is fair
minded believes. this city has pro
gressed during the past several years
and there are many cities in Texas
I that have much to learn OF municipal
Improvement in FL Paso.
In comparison with our population
We don't do justice TO our city in going
to the polls. That is a bad advertise
ment. 1t is not difficult to get people
to come to the defence Of our country
take enough interest in the govern
ment to cast his ballot in time OF peace.
Although there were 100000 more
legal voters in the country during
the last presidential election the vote
was less than that of four years ago
II doesn't help to have better ballot
laws, better election laws if we don't
go to the polls I trust that each and
everyone OF you Will go to the polls
next Tuesday and induce your fellow
citizens to do likewise. If YOU do that
swept into office by an Overwheln-
ing majority, but whether il is or not
YOU will have the knowledge that YOU
have done your duty"
Wharton Closes the Speaking.
John NJ Wharton, the last speaker Of
the evening said. an New Mexico,
where 7 came from. there was an over
whelming Republican majority. The
only way we Democrats could accom-
pliSh anything was by com bininE with
the dfsgrunuec Republicans who had
failed to secure office. organize a citi-
Zens' ticket and elect a man or two.
That Is the excuse I have to offer
for a citizens ticket here I cannot
figure out that the opposition will get
more than one-fourth of the vote. Our
city is building up all the time and
we have one Of the best city admin
istrations 7 ever saw. They say there
are grafters. Where is there any graft
in this country
"They say that a woman down here
has given $1,000 and another $500 for
the campaign fund. Why don't they
produce the proof2 Because they can't
Vote for Kelly and the Democratic
ticket"