El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-05
KELLY ATTACKS DICK DUDLEY;
SAYS RICH MEN AGAINST HIN
Mayor Declares Dudley 'as Small One Way as Is Large
Another Says Coles Is erich Real Estate Man" and
Opposition Has 100000 to Spend to Defeat Him;
Nealon Says There Is Reason"
Ut THOUGHT up to last July that

LLY THOUGHT up to last July that
Dick Dudley was a friend of
I mine. [ thought ne was as big
! in heart as he is in stature; now 1 know
! he is as small one way as he is large
the other" declared mayor c. Z. Kelly
in a speech at the tent meeting held
/ at the corner of Myrtle and ST. Vrain
/ street Thursday night
Some two years and a half ago L
/ was accOSted by Dick Dudley. Great
J tears rolled down his cheeks as he told
me how his partner. Mr.. Orr, whom
/ he loved as a brother, together with
another friend, was held for $4,000
ransom in Mexico. He told me he had
1 appealed to Washington and to the
governor of the state, but could get
no help 1 told him that the only man
! that could help him was in the county
Jail, and that l would go there and see
what could be done L went and saw
old man Orozco.
Obtained Orr's Release.
Through an interpreter 1 told him
the circumstances, and. after listening
to me, he dictated a telegram to his
My son, your friend, Mr.. c. E. Kelly,
requests that you turn Mr.. Orr and,
] have forgotten the other gentleman's
/ name, loose Two days later young
Orr was home. l don't know whether
he paid the ransom, but at any rate
ne was home.
You and l have heard it said on
the street that the opposition has
100000 to spend to defeat me, and if
they can't defeat me, to break me.
They could do it very easily. A. p.
Coles is rich real estate man.
Dick Dudley has a bank behind him.
Why couldn't they break me? But L
am not uneasy about myself and my
family. They may send me to the poor
house, but my family is far enough
along that they can care for them
selves.
The opposition a few days ago asked
who the mayor of FL Paso is. 1 told
them 1 was the mayor. They have
come back and asked it again. I have
this to say, gentlemen, that if the man
behind the throne was either A. P.
Coles or Dick Dudley 1 wouldn't have
this fight to make.
Cotton Addition Values.
1T is all in the record, gentlemen,
that A p Coles rendered the Cotton
addition at $3.50 per acre, and that the
board of equalization, of which L was
member, raised 1t to $500 an acre
L is of record also that, a short time
after, Mr.. Coles sold some of this prop
erty at $500 an acre. He is the man,
gentlemen, who started the agitation
against high taxes. Now, if the peO-
pie of FL Paso want to pay taxes TO
build up the Cotton addition and send
money back to Boston, they will have
to get someone else to help them. 1
am not going to help do it,
NealOn ROasts the Rich.
Joseph NJ. Nealon, city attorney, called
attention to the fight that was being
made by certain wealthy men of the
city against mayor Kelly. IF you
find the rich men fighting Kelly, there
must be reason" he declared. When
rich men cOnspire it is time for the
little taxpayer to be on the alert When
they spend money on a campaign they
must expect to get it back. Now. mayor
Kelly has been the mayor of the home
owner He has built up the fire de
partment in order that the home owner
might be better protected against fire.
He fought for and has succeeded in
building up an efficient health depart
ment, in order that the people of the
city might be protected from disease.
He has improved the Waterworks sys-
TEN, reducing the danger to health
through impure water Every depart
ment under him is efficient and to the
front
Not Too Long in office
The opposition is saying that the
present administration has been too
long in office, and yet mayor Kelly
has been in but four years while the
aldermen and other city officers have
served but two years. It would be
foolhardy for the banks in FL Paso to
get rid of their head men, the men
whose brains are making money for the
institutions, on the theory that they