El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-07-14

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NJ Morning Times bodily Thursday
= night at an open air meeting in
Alta Vista, at the school house
The Times suggested, editorially.
that mayor Lea buy a Maxim silencer
for his own use. Instead. the mayor. to
quote his ewn words. opened up on the
morning publication with a IS MILNE
ter gun Thursday night and he prom
lsed TO keep up the bombardment dur
ing the next week
After paying his respects to J. Z.
Sweeney. who, he said. was as much
the head of the sOcalled Citizens ticket
as Henry (kelly) would let him, mayor
Lea tied into the Times and talked
right out in meeting TO the cheers and
whoops of the crowd Of citizens Of the
Alta Vista section who attended the
meeting
Mayor in Earnest.
The mayor was at ms pest Thursday
night He announced when he started
that he was not candidate for office
and further. that he would never ask
his friends Of FL Paso. whom he loved
so well for public office again. He
said he was going TO speak for his
friends who were running on the COun-
" and City Democratic ticket and
would answer some Of the charges
which had been made against him by
not a candidate for office
After pulling the record on Sweeney
and his administration while in office.
showing that he rolled up a deficit Of
$3.50. 900, which he left when he went
out Of office. and praising former
mayor c z. Kelly for saving the credit
OF the city by funding this indebted
ness, mayor Lea rolled up his sleeves
and waded into the Times.
ROasts Times.
4 have come here TO tell you the
kind Of a paper that creeps into your
home in the morning and which is pos
ing as a Moses 10 mould public Opin-
ion here in FL Paso," the mayor said.
after he had told the crowd that he had
only tried to do his duty TO the people
of e. PasO as mayor and that for this
he had been attacked by the morning
same Old Men.
They Cthe Tines say they have
filled the places down there at the
Times with new men. but 1 want TO tell
YOU that there are the same old men
back of the Times as ever When they
thought this thing Of which am going 3
TO speak was about 10 come out. one Of
their men came 10 me and asked me 4
TO intercede and see that IL did not be (
come public"
The crowd leaned forward in antici- .
patton Of something TO come and it .
came They did not know what IL was 4
TO be but, knowing the mayor. the .
crowd believed he knew what he was
talking about and the crowd was visi- .
blv impressed by his earnest manner.
SOrdId story.
Il am going 70 tell you the sordid .
story Of this paper-Of the paper that !.
calls these candidates on the County and .
City ticket thieves and robbers" he
said
we, here on the border have been
doing our best 10 maintain peace You
know the troubles OF the past five
years You know the man OF all men
who would plunge this country into
sea Of bloOdshed- THAT MAN Is
VILLA. q
Took Money From Villa
Let me make this cold blooded state
ment. for there is not enough brains
and courage down on South Oregon
street 10 bluff me from IT:
aFROM THIS SANE MAN WHO
- RESPONSIBLE FOR GOOD
AMERICANS BEING IN THEIR
GRAVES AT COLUMBU-THIS
SAME MAN FOR WHOM AMERI-
CAN SOLDIERS ARE IN MEXICO
TODAH-THE MORNING TIMES
ACCEPTED AND RECEIVED 4
SUN OF MONEY To BE SUBSI-
DIED BL HIM CVILLAD.
When the owners Of the Morning
Times demanded il, they approved of J
the pact and became parties 10 il. This
was received by the Times as a subsidy
TO magnify little fights into great bat
ties and 70 make a national hero out OF
this man
Took Money From Thief
IF this paper would take blood mon
ey from the hand Of a thief. how much
would IL take from the Citizens eicket
TO prostitute itself2 How much would
il take 10 subsidiZe IL to fight ne2
came from race of men who fight
back I know whose Shiny bra and
heart wrote those attacks on me.
after had named a man as an
x-cOnvict-and I have no apology for
came out last Sunday with
2 nasty little paragraph about me
These street car boys. many Of them.
ire my friends and ] think they may
have been misled by a man whose in
crest was only personal 1 knew his
record and when he made q protest
about the use OF troops TO stop the !
strike riot and when the Times print-
"a the fact that Tom Lea was being
Investigated by the war department,
he Times printed il on the front page, I
knew that that story was born in
he Times office {
Then I said that the statement o.
me T. AcHold, an eE-convict- was o. !
10 concern 10 me. I also said tha-