El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-11
ONE MAN RULE
IS At AN END
P. H. Marcum Says Day of
Political Boss is Passed;
Christmas Open House.

'The time OF the one-man govern
ment has passed in FL Paso and FL Paso
county" declared P. H. Marcum at the
Friday night meeting Of the County
and City Democratic club. This club
is not to be one-man organization but
my organization and our organization
and an organization Of the Democrats
OF FL Paso county, where We viii all
have right to express our views The
thing which should recommend this
club TO the voters Of the county is that
all Of the members have a say in
the selection Of candidates.
Pay Poll Taxes.
PAY your poll taxes, for a political
organization without poll taxes is like
machine gun company without am
munition- This club is the most in
fluentiai organization in the county.
The chamber Of commerce, the Rotary
clug, the Adclub and the others fill
their places in the community and aid
IN building the city The FL Paso Coun-
" and City Democratic club is devoted
TO the political welfare of the city and
county and has its place in the COM
munity Of Interests"
Support Best Man.
we are not here to put our friends ]
in office said John n. Wyatt. I have /
many friends whom I do not think are /
fitted for office and I could not con- /
scientiously vote for them. II is the /
same with you Let's lay aside every /
cE4NALlEAL 1L4c4AlE O4A VI AAACAANAcAAAp anu /
support only the men who will give FL /
Paso county an efficient administra-
ton
Il am deeply enthused." continued i
Mr.. Wyatt. "over the prospects Of the 1
club and IL is up to the club to pick Il
out the very best men that can be Il
found When this club was organized
there was not man present who was !
a candidate for office or desired po-
litical prefeTment It was organized
for the only purpose Of purifying Doli-
tics in the city and county. II stiu
stands for the same things. There
fore. we must endorse only the best men
we can find for office"
SOC Poll Taxes
The meeting was well attended
President y. B. Ware called attention
to the fact that only 9o2 poll taxes
had been paid "A lot OF people have
come TO me with a desire to run for
Office he said. Il want to say that
anyone who wants to ran for office
has that privilege, but anyone who
runs with the endorsement OF this CLUB
viii have the endorsement Of the en-
tire membership and not that OF a few
men only" he declared And every
MAJ must stand on his own RESPONSE
hility II makes no difference how CO
hesiVe. how well organized political
organization may be, if it undertakes
10 put Incompetent men into office
sooner or later II must fan The peo-
ple will test your organization BY what
your organization does think there
are men in our organization who viii J
fiji offices with credit and when We
endorse them ] believe that the people
viii recognize the fact
Police Protection.
Paul Thomas, recorder OF the corpor-
q ton court, declared that he could con-
say that the police depart
ment had been greatly improved. he
smoke OF the, great difficulty OF meet
ing the problem Of protection against
the .sriff-raff the world that IN
fest the city. particularly during me
winter but stated that the sltVauon
was being well met by the department
There seems TO be very little appre-
hension as TO the approaching nonln-
atoms and primaries he said, unless
sOmathing is started soon by the op-
position our endorsements will control
the next election It deyolves upon us
therefore. to offer the best men OBJ
tainable TO iii these Offices
Approves President.
A P. Coles declared that he had read
with great pleasure that at the last
meeting OF the club president Wilson
lad been endorsed. He thought II hlgn-
" fitting that the president should De
sndorsed I am heartily in accord
With the presidents views in the mat
er Of preparedness, he said 4 nope
We viii never have another war but
believe our preparedness for war
rould be the best insurance against
var. If France and Great Britain had
.een as well prepared as was Germany
here would be no European war;
Open House Christmas
John N Wyatt suggested that the
Tub keep. open house on Christmas day,
When cigars, fruit cake and other nght
efreshments could be served me
uggestion was adopted 1t was de-
ided that no liquors should be served
The presidLnt announced that 90 ap-
lications for membership had been re
eived. The next meeting viii De held
he first Friday night in January, II
Ieing decided 10 hold no meetings dur
Irtr-5e+r--1e SEQ SON