El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-12-04

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our majority
County treasurer J. D. Ponder re-
called an effort that was being made to
herd 4 band of Mexicans in "A basement
on San Francisco street for the election
the following day The political lead
ers had gathered Mexicans without IN
vestigating their citizenship; had Just
enticed them into the basement TO have
beer and sandwiches and had then
locked them up under guard to await
the dawning of election day. when they
could be voted About half the men
locked up were citizens and residents
OF Juarez and the Mexican consul got
word Of il some way and came down
to see II he could not secure their re-
lease. one OF the American Leaders
also now dead-realiZing that If any
Of the Mexicans were allowed to leave,
ali might bolt. walked UP TO the consul
and said Now beat IT, if you don't
wen lock you up and vote YOU, too"
The consul gave up and left
Another man recalled the election in
which the county seat was moved from
Ysleta to FL Paso. He asserted that
a larger vote was cast in that election
than ever was cast before or has ever
been cast since in FL Paso county
This is believed to be somewhat eXag-
gerated. but the speaker asserted that
il is not much of an eXaggeratiOn, II
any. AS the voting progressed" he
said some of the Nsieta leaders came
To FL PaSO to see what We were 10
ing IN this way and learned that Next
Fans were being brought by the wagon
load from Juarez and voted here He
went TO the telegraph office and wired
W. J. Harris and some others down at
Ysleta regarding what he had seen and
suggested that they hasten over to the
Mexican settlement of Zaragosa and
get enough MeXicans to vote at Ysleta
TO offset the JuareZ vote in Fl Paso.
II a short time he got a reply from
his townsmen. which said Not a man
left in Zaragosa- FL Paso has got
them, too Incidentally. Of course, Fl
Paso carried the election and got the
county seat"
Fl Paso paid the penalty. however.
by having 10 endure that old red and
green court house for thirty years.
Jobs We don't want: Being compelled
to listen 10 Capt Benny Nicklin, goth
infantry. tell about his brother, Sammy
Strang, one time Giant star and later
West Point baseball coach. Capt
Nicklin has said that If IL were not for
John AxtOu. Arthur Watts and Henry
Lewis, the newspapers would have to
cease printing army news The cap
tain mas too much rank to be an aid
TO Gen Bell. as Lieut. Lewis is; he has
not been here long enough tC, become
as popular as Capt Watts and he Ger
tainly cannot aspire to the position OF
successful chaplain Axiom, so there you
are However, We hope he does not
fe-l sighted now, for he has his name
in prinL)
bunch Of old army men were talk
ing the other day and one of them
pulled an old time army story, so old
that il is new to most Of US. 1t seems
that a long time ago A certain regi-
Tnent received \ large number of Irish
recruits They We're given rifles and
then they went 10 drill The drill
master gave them Halt" then in
rapid succession e onward. March
TO the Rear, March," Right Face
Left Face About Face" Right
Shoulder Arms Left Shoulder Arms
Present Arms and Order Arms"
Then came the welcome command to
rest one Irish rookie threw his
rifle on the ground. Damned II 1
like 10 work for a man who changes
his mind so often" he exclaimed
Murder Will out" ana so VIII the
pride of a new father Otis Coles is
the father of new boy II Is his
second. but he is just as proud as if
this was the first. II was not long
after the arrival Of the newest boy
office and began t. ask him questions
about the baby. whereupou Otis thus
delivered himself. L tell YOU there
Is absolutely nothing unusual OF re-
markable about my baby and I want
you all TO bear witness to the fact
I insisted I would be. Ny baby is not
even pretty, but is on the contrary,
ugly, and is just an ordinary baby and
am not one Of those fool fathers
who brags about a mere baby, but I'll
tell you one thing. strictly on the
quiet. / have noticed that the baby
does q great many things now. when
it is only week old, which most