El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-07-20
LET THE VOTEEs NOT BE DECEIVED
By THE PEANUT POLITICS AND
BUNK OF THE OLD RING
NANAEERG

To the Editor Of The Herald and
Voters Of FL Paso:
The writer has for more than forty
years taken part in politics, and en-
lows a good, clean contest, but mas
been disguised with the methods OF
the old ring socalled in the present
The writer's for the full page SPLASH
published in the Daily Times are en-
gagged in a deliberate attempt TO fool
the voters They are well aware tnat
their bunco games viii not deceive the
thoughtful and discriminating voter,
but they hope 10 catch here and there
some one who may be fooled by their
gold brick tactics.
It is evident that they are very small
men. ready to indulge in the smallest
kind OF PEANUT POLITICS
What is meant by PEANUT POLL
TICS2 Here are some examples:
They know that Tom Lea is not run
ming for any county office. but they
publish a lot Of stuff which they re-
gard as rejecting on Tom Sea- Why IS
this done2 The answer is easy It
is to stir up dust TO hide the real
issue
They know that Don Johnson and his
dismissal from the police force have
absolutely nothing to do with the cleo
ton Of county officers. but they print
much about him and give much space
to his screed against the mayor.
If you stop to think. Mr.. Voter, cam
you easily imagine these fellows wink
ing at each other and laughing in their
sleeves. and saying: We may catch
a few with that stuff
That is PEANUT POLITICS. BUNCO
| STEERING. GOLD BRICK WORK.
Are you going to be fooled by it'll
| Again:
When they publish in their daily
| splash that Mr.. Fryer. candidate for
/ county attorney. has been court ste
nographer for seven years and that
| it has cost the county $4,000 TO make
I an expert stenographer out OF him.
and ask the question. why waste an
| other $4,000 trying to make lawyer
! out OF him." they know that this is
! the smallest kind of Peanut Politics.
! Not only that. il is dirty, contemplate
/ politics II is entirely unworthy of
| decent self respecting men.
They know and every one OF them
( knows who knows anything at all
/ about It, that Mr.. Fryer was a good
| stenographer when he was first APP
! pointed and that during all these years
| he has returned to the county good,
1 honest, hard and thoroughly competent
| work. dollar for dollar in value for
| every dollar the county has paid him.
| They. who are posted, are well aware
] Of another thing and that is that the
| long experience of Mr.. Fryer in the
! thirty-fourth district court has made
/ him one OF the keenest and best post
| ed lawyers at the bar, on criminal
| questions.
I can go farther and assert without
| rear OF SUCCESSFUL llai
| the opinion is generally entertained
! among the lawyers and often freely
! expressed that Mr.. Fryer knows more
! criminal law in a minute than Mr.
! Vowel could learn in a year. So ali
! this splash talk is PEANUT POLITICS
| BUNCO STEERING, GOLD BRICK
POLITICS.
Let me go farther and call your at
| tention to their contemplate attack
| upon Judge Clark. the anti ring can
didate for district attorney.
These little men must. indeed be
| desperate when they resort to such
| the voters in an attempt to DO a WRONG
| to man much better than themselves
They flaunt before the voters the
| information that a certain suit was
| brought and that the daughter OF Judge
| Clark was the plaintiff, but neglect
| TO tell what is the truth that the &C
| ton was brought for the sole pur-
| pose Of Strengthening out legal COM
! plications that had arisen from many
| deals in and transfers of property an5
| that Judge Clark cordially cooperated
with the attorneys for his daughter
| in getting the various property inter
| ests adjusted. whereupon the suit was
in the due and ordinary course of bust
| ness dismissed to the entire satisfac-
| ton of every one concerned. If they
! had been honest and were not trying
| to deceive the public, they could have
| gone to Judge Buckler, one of the mos
| respected and honored members OF the
! bar OF FL Paso, who would promptly
| have told them that there was moth.
| ing whatever in that suit to initiate
in the slightest degree against Judge
Clark as man of honor and integrit!