El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-11

ct DO NOT know just what this
question Of going to Juarez has
to do with this city election. But
I viii tell Kelly that I will go anywhere
duty calls me, even if Fred DeIgado,
Pancho' villa and other henchmen of
Henry Kelly are on the other end of
the bridge when I go. The man who
says that I am afraid to go anywhere
that duty calls me, tells an untruth"
This was Tom LEAFS answer to mayor
kelly's often repeated question OF why
the anti-ring candidate for mayor could
not go to Juarez. It was delivered at
the East Ell Paso meeting on Piedras
and Alameda streets Wednesday eve
ming.
when I went into this campaign. I
asked that it be pitched on a high plane
and that there be no mud singing" he
said. But / have never seen a cam
paign in FL PasO where the ring or
ganizatiOn could refrain from singing
mud. They can throw all of the mud
they want to. They can denounce me
from Ramon Gomez's hall and from
their heated tents. but I stand before
the people unafraid. I came from a
stock of people who won't scare. I have
never straddled any fence and have
been on the side of the people at all
times.
Mayor Of Ell PasO, Not Jsnrez.
They know that the people are go
ing to do something they have never
done before-turn them out of office
and they are trying hard to make some
kind Of an excuse by talking about
why I can't go to Juarez. Thank God.
I belong in Texas and they are pretty
hard up to be dragging such a, flimsy con-
tention into this campaign. I am going
to be elected mayor Of FL Paso and not
Juarez.
IF he and his henchmen had not
spent so much time across the river,
they would not be having this fight
on their hands today. I said that
member OF the police department was
taking pay from the Mexican govern
ment He denied it and I announced
at the meeting last Friday night that /
have in my safe, at the office the proof
that this was so. Since then there has
not been one Whimper from them about
1t. u 1t shows that there are men on
the city payroll who are not doing heir
full duty toward FL Paso. Today there
are men walking the streetk and draw
ing money from the city of FL Paso and
yet working for this safety first gang.
Attacks Campaign Methods.
plain clothes men are going from
house to house asking questions that
are an insult to any decent citizen
have not buttonhoIed YOU. and I have
not blown whiskey breath in your face
and asked you to vote for me, or how
you were going to vote. You are all in
tenigent men and you know how you
are going to vote. I do not say that am
the only man who canhOld this office.
have not begged you to vote for me and
I have not hadf hirelings. paid by the
city going out and working for. II
am defeated. I won't be on the way to
the poor house, as my opponent tells
you he viii be.
No BOyeOtting or Coercion.
'sThey have told you that I am for
that I would close up this
town tight L want to be mayor Of a
live city and not a dead town and ]
never said anything of the kind But I
do want to change a condition Of which
I am ashamed and of which you all
should be ashamed, 7 want it changed
SO that men in this city will not be CO.
creed or threatened; viii not be afraid
to express their opinions on politics
for fear of hurting their business You
know that that is so at the present
time. The day after ] am elected I win
tell the people that, from now on, you
can express your opinions on politics or
anything else. without fear of being
boycotted. The ticket running with me
Is composed Of broad minded men who
are unafraid and who win stand by me
If I am right and fight me If I am