El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-18

county printing than the Spectator and
| declared the police department of the
| citv as the rottenest 1t has ever been
( in our history" ana when somebody
| Kissed him, he fastened to add: IT
| don't mean any particular policeman
] or officer-its the way things are run"
He also said he knew Of n policeman
Z who pulled off his star and threw it
/ away because he was so disguised with
: things and didn't give the policeman's
| paper man and ought to know that the
| public always wants facts: that is al
ways the first training Of a newspaper
man.
ArOuses PeepinE Toms.
Then he aroused considerable curl
osity about the windows at the city Jail
| by asserting that he knew il to be a
J fact that the police strip women of
! their clothing IN their cells "as the
price Of their liberty" and said The
Herald could get a good item if it
would look this up.
As district attorney, Mr.. Bridgers has
| failed to make any news for The Her
aid to print regarding his activities in
| prosecuting such Offences if he knows
them to exist
Mr. Bridgers didn't like II, he said,
about the proceedings of the county
commissioners being printed in The
Herald and said he had never heard Of
such a thing before. Investigation
er ever since Billie came to town until
now, and il has never been the idea
of the ring to publish its transactions
to the public. 1t is an innovation estab-
lished by the present board Of county
commissioners.
Mr.. Bridgers made his speech after he
had been nominated by Ponder S Carr
ter, recently Of TOyah, Tex.
Charlie Vowel on the Job.
Charlie Vowel who has been accused
of coming to Ell Paso running for office,
and who supported the anti-ring or
Eanization until refused endorsement
for county attorney. was another who
also took occasion TO warn the UNI
trammeled ones that they are going 10
call us ring ticket" and asserted that
never before did you meet together 10
select your own candidates until now.
Always, somebody else has selected
them for you" The Herald had told dur.
ing the afternoon that the free and UNI
trammeled" would select Mr.. Vowel in
the evening-because the bosses had or
dered it in the night before.
A Snag Is Struck.
Things worked smooth enough 20
please even VIII Burgess, ably repre-
sented in the meeting by Bob Holiday.
and the only hitch was threatened when
Dave Sullivan came near walking off
with the nomination for sheriff, against
the will of himself and those who had
framed the ticket. r l. Dorbandt was
slated for the iob-and got it-but
Stanley Good was there with a bunch
Of fellows hoping to get in on il. ana
Dawes friends were there and they set
up such holler that it looked for
time as II Dave would have TO quit his
insurance agency and take the nominal
ton, but Dave is said TO be a very level
headed young man and evidently the
certainty of the insurance Job appealed
to him. He mounted the rostrum and
said he was out of the race and was
supporting Dorbandt Then w J. Mo-
ran said he was doing the same thing,
and Joe Sweeney said that's me-" or
words to that effect and they kept on
piling up sentiment for Dorbandt while
Good kept on working among the dele
gates FOR votes H. G, Van Haeselen,
former courthouse janitor, made talk
in behalf of Good and part Of the crowd
howled him down.
Ballet Box Stuffed.
As the meeting drew along towards
it's conclusion, there was some more ex-
element, when the charge was made
that an effort was being made by some
OF the faithful to stuff the ballot" on
the nomination for constable. This is
the one place the makers OF the ticket
had left open for the convention.
1t was just before the meeting adj
Journed at midnight that George VILE
gas moved that the vote on constable
evidence, he said, that an attempt had
been made by some persons to put in
more than one vote. One OF the teIlers
had complained that a number of bal
lots I'm the same handwriting and signed
only with the initials OF the voter had
been turned in. The convention there
upon voted to meet again next Monday
night when the vote on constable viii
be taken.
Voting Two or Three TImes.v
20 II
lot was being taken for the nomination
Of sheriff, Jim Dudley. in the rear of
the hall. in the presence of a Herald
man. asked a young Mexican II ne was
voting and the Mexican replied: yes,
everybody is voting-some two or three
tines In the light Of the charges
made by Mr.. Villegas later. this state
ment, accepted first as a joke, took on
significance.
Five candidates for constable were
nominated. George Vi0egas placed in
nomination Charles Gaal. Ed Mebus was
proposed by +. c. Standish. Joe Rogers
placed Fred DelgadO in nomination. The
name Of Walter A. Williams was pro-
posed by G.. E. Wallace, and Lon Gar
ner former captain of police. was
placed in nomination by J. IT, Sweeney
showing Meetings Freedom.
After j. L. Sweeney had called the
meeting to order and T. N. Jones had
been placed in the chair Tor the even
ing and W. 3. Bull. stenographer for
judge p. r. Price. had been made sec
rotary. the freedom and untrmmeled-
ness OF the meeting were shown when
q committee on order of business was
named and retired and got back
into the room with a long typewriter
document that W. B. Bull-expert ty-
pist that he is--couldn't have written
TO save his life during the time the
committee was out. However the or
der of business was accepted. This