El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-07-10

y OCORRO is anti" ring to the core.
The ring made that sad discov-
- cry Wednesday night when the
socorro voters deserted the ring
beer to attend the rival meeting OF
the ANTS" However. the ring went
back Thursday night to try again.
Seth OrndOrff, playing a lone hand
against 20 ring men, held the second
rival meeting for the "antis," and
won, hands down. In figures he had
the ring" men beaten two TO one.
Ring men admitted that Orndorff
could have had all Of Socorro If he
had been mean enough.
IN the location OF its headquarters,
the ring" has the advantage. It j
nearer the two saloons than the anti
hall In order TO get the voter to the
''antF' headquarters the "antis" have
TO lead the voters from the saloons
past the ring headquarters and over
the bridge across the canal It is
then a dry, dusty walk Of nearly
quarter Of a mile to the "anti' head
quarters The canal bridge is Just at
voter on his dry walk to the oppOsi-
ton camp could look into the ring"
hall A cold beer key on the in
side presented an inviting sight, but
being loyal, they walked on II was
only a question Of = short delay Tor
at anti headquarters the voter got ex-
actly the same thing that the ring
was serving. He got more than that
because the ''antis'' served sandwiches,
700,
The Pied Piper OF Soeorro.
Seth Orndorff is the Pied Piper OF
Socorro. Ring" men stood on the
canal bridge, ring" candidates stood
without the hail and watched Orndor1I
lead the voter5 away. There were
sickly erins on the faces OF some OF
the ring politicians, others saw the
humorous side Of IL snd laughed Come
on boys" said Orndorff, and the So
corro voters followed him villa ana
his army said a ring" worker.
Before Orndorff arrived at Socorro
in B. J. Zabriskie's automobile, the
ring" men were already on the
ground. Police chief 7. y. Davis, CHER
Of city detectives Jesse G. Stanseu ana
mounted policeman IVY Finley were
perched on the railing in front OF the
ring" headquarters Why The polics
officers were there could not be ascer-
tanned unless Stansel was taken to the
scene to mako deductions ana discover
a voter, whersupOn Finley was 10 run
him down and capture him and turn
him over to chief Davis for invesuga-
ton. In the county election two
years ago the ring" got two votes ~
Socorro.
FL Pas0 Ring Present.
Before the me-ting crAned, sheriff
Pevton J. Edwards having IS his pas
sengers in his automobile, deputies
Stanley Good, ST, Good, IT., ]. B. XII
patrick and Jim Fulgham, also arrived
VIII I. Watson, county tax collector
with George ". Armijo and A J. Bo-
sier, ring orators, was already on
the ground. Shortly after the arrival
Of the sherifFs posse, sewer commits
sioner J. ". HaGlock, bringing Pau
neIzado and Amador Ontiveras, two
more Mexican orators, drove up in his
automobile. Adrian Pool brought 9.
". Groom in his automobile. Frank
AIderete arrived with George W.
Huffman and with J. A Escajeda on
the scene and the ring" representa-
ticn was complete
Orndorff and Zabriskie brought the
Proc brothers, Jose and Carlos, to DC
their Grating. They represented the
sum total Of anti" workers
Assaults on Saloons.
The arrival Of the visiting politicians
was the signal for q combined assault
on Socorro's two saloons, but the pro-
3rietors did net get mad
One ring" candidate lost out by