El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-09-09
"HE FL Paso County and City
Democratic club was organized

-HE FL Paso County and CITY
Democratic club was organized
Il Tuesday night with more than
100 charter members who filled the
hall on the second floor Of the Coles
building.
John N. Wyatt was selected tenn
porary chairman OF the meeting and
stated the purpose Of the club. He
said: The organization Of the Conn
ty and City Democratic club is for
the purpose OF advocating measures
OF good government in FL Paso CITY
and county without special privileges
or favors to anyone. It is assumed
that this club is not called upon TO
harbOr the socalled Democratic organ
1ZauOn which has repeatedly antago0
lied the great number Of the rank and
file OF the county and city Democ-
The organization Of the new Demo-
cratic club was the result of a series
OF informal meetings Of groups of
Independent Democratic citizens d17r
ing the past month. After meeting
and considering the best methods for
erecting permanent organization OF
the Democratic voters, independent of
the ring" It was decided to organize
a county and city club which would
maintain its organization permanently
and would have for its object the cleo
Llon Of the best possible candidates
Ior county and city offices and the
good government in the dual admins
trations.
All @AntI7 Leaders There.
, OF the. 100 or more men present at
the meeting Tuesday night many were
men who have taken a leading part
IN me city and county affairs. Judge
lanes N Goggln was selected perna-
nent chairman of the club. Among
me men who were present were.
SL-oSsss pan NJ Jackson. Charles De
65IoII, A p. .. C. and J. F. Coles,
bradford Hardie. exmayor ] mi
Sweeney, W B. Ware. S. J. FrudenthaL
J. h Smith, Tom Lea, B. F. jenkins
James Dudley, Edgar FeweL Norwood
I T-L, n y camp. Seth Orndorff. Don
JohnsOn. T. f Sawyer, VIII Hoard
W l. AmoEett. ". H. Fryer. 3 Tom
Smith, Ike Alderete, Jack Dawson
Charles Kline and Juan LarrazoIo.
AFTER the selection Of J. NJ WYATT
as temporary chairman and Charles
A Kline as temporary secretary a
=. CoLes introduced a resolution stat
ing the purposes OF the club and hind
1us the members 10 vote as a unit
Juqge j. L. Sweeney held that This
had better be postponed until after
ne c!uD was organized, as Il w0lld
theu De proper resolution while a
resolution would not be binding on
the prospective members before the
organization was perfected
No Ring 8Ien Wanted.
Judge GoEgin also suggested that Il
would be wise to organize before -rass-
ing the resolutions. Later he offered
practically the same resolutions as
nose oiIered by Mr. Coles. Temporary
chairman Wyatt made a statement
from the chair that he did NOT believe
lhaI anyone belonging to the an
lasonlstlc organization" should ba
permitted TO be a member OF the club.
He said that he did not wish to offend
any member OF the ring" but thew
were welcome TO stay with that or
-aIllzauon If they wished. He added
Lnat II anyone present were neither
ring nor antlring and wished TO
JON, they would be welcomed bur
lnaJ ne would ask those who did not
wish 70 Join, TO retire from the hall.
Want Membership n Secret.
The work OF organizing the club
was then carried out. Pads were
passed among those present by Charles
Kline and +. E. Sawyer and the names
on Ihe prospective members written IN
these pads. Tom Lea suggested that
the roll be called so that anyone who
had not signed the roll could do SO.
chairman Wyatt objected to the read
ing OF the roll unless the newspaper
men present would promise not 10
PRINT the names Of membership.
Judge GogSin then introduced his
resolution which stated that III is the
sense Of the club that each member
pledge nlmsef TO abide by the vote
or the majority of the club on any
candidate or measure"
The resolution was seconded bv Rem
i. jenkins and was passed. w B.
ware then nominated judge GOggin
LOT permanent chairman and ne was
elected unanimously.
A Siam ut 'TThe Ring
After being escorted TO the chair,
judge Goggin made a brief speech in
which he said: I'VE all have the in
city and county at heart and we be-
city and county az heart and we be-
lieve thar every man shall have the
right 70 say who shall be nominated
Our form Of government as we know
from bitter experience. permits OF {
nominations by a small minority when
the minority selection means election.
It is important, IL we expect to have
representative government, that the
primary should express the will of the
large part OF the population OF the
city and county. We want to work TO
this end. We want clean politics and
clean government We want state
county and city officers who Will ad-
minister the affairs Of the offices
without prejudice toward anyone We
want to see that these officers will