El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-07-20
TINES PANCHO
VILLA PAPER
Speaker at Cleveland Square
Says W. H. Burgess Wrote
Times Statement.

OF the County and City club Wednesday
night He referred to Mrs. Pancho Villa
as the Image of the goddess of lib
| erty of the Times and declared that
Bill Burgess wrote the statement in the
Times" regarding the receipt for $4,000
! showing that amount had been deliv-
cred to the manager of the Times.
The meeting was the largest that has
been held in Cleveland Square during
the present campaign In addition TO
the seats permanently in the square,
there were several hundred chairs
placed around the speakers stand and
! all of these were occupied and many
stood. 1t is estimated that there were
| 500 persons at the meeting
In his speech Harris, who is candi-
| date for county chairman on the County
| and City club ticket, he declared that
judge Leigh Clark, who had been at
| tackled because OF a friendly suit which
/ had been brought against him by his
] daughter, was the innocent victim OF a
| political attack and that such a thing
should never nave been brought into the
| campaign.
Pancho Villas Paper.
Il am embarrassed TO be here" said
Mr. Harris, because I had to come off
and leave the barrel containing the
! slush fund at home This is in refer
ence to the cartoon which you saw in
the Pancho Villa paper some days ago.
They can go over their books and they
cannot find anything against me, IN
less 1t was when l dressed up as a
printer two years ago and obtained the
county audit which Roy Barnum and
judge Eylar refused to give out
Times's Goddess Of Liberty.
THE other 'iay l went out into the
back yard anc picked up the Times We
make them throw the Times in the back
yard now. On enc of the pages I saw
a beautiful picture that looked like a
woman looking over a pile of rock It
was an image Of the goddess of liberty
of the Times. Mrs Pancho Villa. When
1 saw that little piece written by Bill
Burgess, telling the mayor to back up his
accusations / got kind of scared But
when I saw that picture in The Herald
this afternoon OF the receipt for the
money. went back and looked at my
cartoon again and felt satisfied
Know They Are Beaten
Il am surprised that any bunch of
men would resort to the mud-slinginS
that the ring has in this campaign.
They call the candidates thieves and
crooks. but where is their proof7 They
have not got IL, and their resort to mud
singing is a practical admission that
they know that they are beaten Let
me tell you there was over 100000
debt hanging over the county when the
present commissioners went in. and
what did the cd bunch have 10 show
for ii but a let ot bad roadbeds2
Guarantees Not Enforced
AT the end of the present adminis-
tration YOU viii have a courthouse. an
experimental .arm. and a county hos
pital that you will be proud Of You
will have p miles of good roads. with
a five year guarantee hanging over
them. and which is a great deal better
than the old ones What is the answer
TO the bad rods Of the old ring COM
missiOnerSg Z is bum contracts The
guarantees were not enforced.
Who Writes Villas Stuff.
Go back to the files of the Times
and you will find them boosting
bitulithic then as hard as they are
knocking 1t now I wonder who writes
that stuff for PaEcho Villa and his
papers The inconsistency of Villa and
his editorial writers is certainly going
some. I would like to know where
Billy Bridgers would get the $50 that
he offers Tom Lea for every speech
Lea is not an issue in this campaign.
Maybe if Billy would show Tom the
$50 he would speak more, but we are
from Missouri, and Billy will have TO
show it first"
"Ring'' Changes Easily.
E. N Whitaker. candidate for judge
of the 41st district court, stated that
the candidates of The ring" ticket had
the ability to change easily. When
II
tell the people of Socorro they are in
favor of that road" said Mr.. Whita-
ker- But in FL FasO it is different.
When they are in Sierra Blanca they
trict, but they never say anything up
here where the voters are not con-
cerned abut Sierra Rlanca"
r E Thomason. candidate for repre-
sentative from the 18th district. made
brief talk on the respective merits
OF the different candidates and urged |
the citizens TO see that every man
voted his own way in the election.
Defends Judge Clark.
Judge Leigh Clark was exonerated |
from all blame in the suit of Frances
Clark Vance VS.. Leigh Clark and the |
t1delity Bonding company. prior TO the |
general speech making in a talk by !
Judge ]. A Buckler attorney for Mrs. !
Vance
The suit was dismissed after all
parties had agreed to a general set ,
Element to the satisfaction Of the bond !
ing company" said judge Buckler. Il !
did not come here tonight to make a 1
political speech but simply to exoner- |
ate a man to whom il was due and |
about whom many untruthful things
have been said The suit was merely |
in the best of faith
W. H Fryer said that his opponent,
Charles Vowel. had not assailed his !
honesty and integrity. but had attacked |
AAAS was d graduate OF the !
university OF Texas in the same class |
with Ballard Coldwell. present Judge !
OF the 18th district court said Mr. !
Fryer In one breath Vowel says |
that Ballard ColdwtI is one Of the |
most brilliant lawyers in the state and |
IN the next he declares that I am in I
competent for the position of county at |
torney."
Vowel For Fryer.
-Four years ago when I made the |
race for county attorney who was il |
that tramped the precincts all night |
and declared that I was more compe- !
tent than P. r PRICE, VowelI then |
my opponent It looks like inconsis-
tency when Vowel was refused the !
nomination of the City and County |
Democratic club on one night when 7 I
defeated him and the next day he came |
around and announced his candidacy /
independently 1t looks like personal |
interest Before the endorsement !
meeting OF the City and County Demo- |
cratic club Vowel came to me in my |
office and recommended that / make ]
the race for district attorney, while he |
was nominated for county attorney"
Vowel Broke Agreement.
Il told him all right. Vowel, will !
take you up. But if at the meeting the |
voters endorse me will you back out 1
like sport?" He said that he would |
and next morning after the meeting !
he comes out with the statement that /
he is running Independently