El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-05-27
MARCUM WILL CLOSE CLUBS #
BRIDGERS WILL DISMISS SUITS
City Councils Prosecutor hrows Down GAUNTLET To
District Attorney; Declares Bridgers is Making Pc
litical Thunder and Pr aises County Attorney
Groom Ask Who's Behind Bridgers

body. viii take back everything I
I have said. II Mr.. Bridgers Will show
me in the statute law OF this state
or IN the charter Of the city Of FL
I Paso from which the corporation court
/ derives Its power anything that would
! permit a member Of the police depart
Z ment 10 interfere with the running or
/ operation Of an organization operat-
I ing under a state charter. I will take
/ off my hat TO him because he can
I find something that amt there In
the first place, when you resort TO
Z injunction proceedings YOU are resort
Z ing to a proceeding which partakes Of
Z the nature Of an act Of confiscauon-
Texas Laws Prevent Police.
The constitution OF the state OF
] Texas. as well as of the United states,
/ prived of his property or liberty with
Z out process Of law. It would clearly
D be an unconstitutional act. even If the
l legislature had gone FAR enough and
authorized the police force to bring
ar Injunction suit II would be IN
constitutional If the city fathers were
TO enact an ordinance empowering
Don Johnson and his policemen 20 40
that act ana if they proceeded under
such an ordinance, any man against
whom they did proceed could bring
counter Injunction and stop them from
further proceeding upon the ground
that no mans property may De taken
from him without due process OF law
and that IS what We nave nad 70 90
41st district courts-We must act
through the processes OF law before
we can take d final judgment
Powers and Rowan Clubs.
After we had filed all the Suits
that we could against the CLUBS OF the
city we found that there were Two
which We could not touch, and You
men probably know the names o.
those two. The International Soclai
club and the West Texas Athletic CLUB
run bv Tom Powers and sam Rowan
respectively. When by resolution the
civ council instructed me to procure
private citizens and taxpayers TO act
as parties plaintiffs IN SUITS 70 DC
filed against these two CLUBS lnen II
is that on the following morning Hs
read this written by Mr. BrlQgers IL
he Afornine. Times. The activity OF
the city council in insTuctlne 2 q.
Marcum 10 enlist c1tlzen pialhttllLL
SO that he could proceed asalIis - ~
West Texas Athletic club was prdc
tica1lv useless lnaSmucn as thaL 49,
has been set down tor nearing ~ %
June .. Doesn't that sign nice go
down on June . But listen, another
one Of your county officials Went 70
". w BridEers some three weeks aEe
and made a proposition TO him lnal ~
he wouldn't Try that case We NcIlu
he glad TO try il for him Three weeks
ago mind you and the answer 70 ma
proposition was I am going 70 let 10
club remain Just as II Is But WhS-
your CITY council inStructs me py
resolution TO 90 out and institute an
indeoendent suit then Nr. Bridgers
tells YOU that he has set the case down
such a h1Irry2 Why If three weeks
ago he was perfectly willing that ms
suit should sleep upon the oockst
until time should be no more Mns 3
for June 2nd, especially IN view o. !
the fact that every time we tIy OF
OF these club cases i costs the IaA
PAYERS hundred dollars
who Stands Behind BridEers:
7 want to ask Mr. Bridgers TINS
question II this IS a matter ror the {
police. why did he institute go or % /
Injunction suits several months ago
Was there some interest behind your i
district attorney Who stood BEHIND /
him in the filing Of these suits
says Money SqandeEed-
4 want to show you how your
money is being taken away from you 1
hate TO talk about myself Out nav
got TO do it. because I happened to De
in the district attorney Once AZ ny
time this happened so know Whal
am talking about II you don De
lieve that these are the facts ana Ils-
ures. refer you and refer MI BrloS-
now on file in the district clerks OF
flee OF your county All you nave %
do is TO 20 down there and verify them
for yourself Listen to this; The rec
ord shows that W. W Bridgers ap-
peared in the Saith district court on
behalf Of the State Of Texas from jan
uary II TO March 20. A total Of nine
DAYS and for that service rendered MI
Bridgers was entitled to $3.50 Instead
of that Mr.. Bridgers collected over MS
sworn affidavit the sum OF SSH lor
that nine days that he actually ap-
Deared in the district court, an over
payment Of S705. Let me tell you how
the district attorney IS entitled 10 col
lect his wages, or his salary dis
trict attorney receives in addition 20
$500 allowed by law. SIS day for each
day he is in attendance, either IN per-
son OF through his duly qualified as
sistant upon the district court OF the /
Df the county. SIS for each day he Is
IN attendance, and that extends for a
period OF 133 days In other words a
district attorney can earn by honest |
md diligent effort about S2495 each
-ear-that is from his salary Before
he can collect a penny Of that, he must
make affidavit under oath that he was
resent in and about the states bust
less in the district court Of the county
Il his district That is one Of the sup
POSED essentials before he can draw his
rarrant- Mr. Bridgers has collected
.105 when he was only present. actual
y in court, nine days. and he talks l
o you about the commissioners court
quandering the peoples money.
Prosecutions VIII Not Cease.
Mr.. darcum promised that the pros
cutions Of social clubs would not stop