El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-03-01
HARPER TICKET
PUT IN FIELD
Fifty one People Nominate
Four Aldermen at Court
house Meeting.

-Four nominees for the city alder
manic Offices were named and an
,-,ecutive committee composed OF -
members 10 handle al matters con-
corning the campaign leading up 10
the city election 10 he held during the
early part OF April was appointed at
"a meeting attended by 81 members of
The Independent Voters league We'd
uesda~ night in the 41st district court
room. A printed ballot on which were
l. names. was submitted to those pres
eut hv 7 H. Harper. with Instructions
TO cross out all but the four men Wnom
they favored as aldermanlc canoldates-
The four leading candidates IN the pa
Ioting were g F. Ederie- y r. ~ e
c B. Stevens and Charles hlnne- Ah=2
will oppose the Davis ticket
Chairman John T Hill who was IN
conference with !. Il. Harper prior 70
calling the meeting TO order announces
that Mr. Harper had prepared resolu-
lions on the order Of business Tor tne
evening and that he desired to submit
them Mr. Harper stated that ne
thought the league should postpone dc-
ton in the matter OF endorslnS
a candidate for the office OF
MAYOR and other city offices uh-
I'll a future meeting, and that ne pro
Uosed that only the aldermanic cahdl-
dates be nominated al the meeting. ana
an executive committee OF . be ap-
pointed .,
4 Il Sutherland addressed the cnaLl
man before the motion had been passeu'
asking lust why the league should sus-
rend the endorsement of the CANDIDA Ies
for other offices. and was answered. "
chairman Hill. who said me mos
l1rominent man here is judge harper
and he has outlined the order OF bust
ness in that way. as he felt IKE lhat
in time the executive committee may
decide on another man. they haFlnS
endorsed him for that position at one
time"
the aldermauic candidates be enuot -
and the executive committee appo4hteu
was read and approved by those present
Mr.. Harper then stated that he had ar
ranged a ballot bearing u names Which
he desired to submit 70 the Eoters
present who were TO cross out All put
-be four men whom they favored as
candidates for the aldermanic OFFICES
I have prepared the ballot with these
names on IL, az of whom are wei
known business men, you Will find,
we want TO put a ticket in the field
that will result in harmony among
the dissatisfied element had the pal
lots printed myself, and aithougn 1
am not sure that all OF the men on the
ballot will agree TO run II they are
nominated at this meeting-if they re-
fuse to run we can find someone 10
take their places
Reads the Names
Chairman Hill was then requested 70
read the names on the ballot Wnlcn
had been prepared 9 r Ederle. ana
y z Ware. are well known TO the
labor union men. and have received
-beir endorsement. we understand
he said. j. J. Mundy and Charles q
stevens are members OF the Repuoll-
can party. I do not believe that l. =
NcChesney or ". 7 Hord viii accept
HE nomination. they having with
drawn from the primaries after peIns
given unfair treatment The other
five-J E. Morgan. Charles DeGrotf,
". Cooley. Sol 1. Berg and W = DAVIS
are all well known in FL Paso.'
II was explained that II the mem
hers Of the league diu not ceSire 70
vote for any OF the names on the bal
lot, they could substitute DINERS
-Four persons were appointed to take
up the ballots and count them: the
final count being C F. Ederle. - v
F. Ware. 50: J. J Mundy. s; G b
stevens. 80: L. P McChesney. I: W j.
Hord, 10; g A Kline. 10; J. f. Nor
gau. ,; Charles DETROIT. 5; W Cooley.
IA: Sol !. Berg, 6; ". c Davis, 8; r
II Filler ?: Paul Nafe. / J. + Hlg-
nett I: A. H Sutherland /; John T:
Ei1 q EderIe. stevens. Kline and
Ware. who received the highest num-
her of votes. were then nominated by
Wr- Harper's Executive Committee.
The aDpointment OF the executive
committee was then suggested by Nj
Harper. who stated that he had pre-
pared a personnel of p men, Wnom ne
accommodated as an executive commit
Zee. The committee would have full
power to handle the affairs OF the cleo
ton. he said. and would attend to all
internal matters Of the league. The
list of names made up by Mr.. Harper
were read and adopted They were:
John 7. Hill. W H. Morgan Paul Maze
a Il Anderson. Lamar Thomas. A H.
Sutherland. . Z. Ballard. F. B. Stuart
". H. Case. z G Smith, ". High
OdeII- Il. W Pontius. W z Fletcher.
g. VI. Lawrence. A P. Coles, Wyeth
Doak. " A. Hazard. J. c Rous. Fred
Knollenberg. John Vance, Joe Sullivan
II Al Vance
The meeting was then declared ad-
iourned after a resolution making pro-
visions for another meeting to be held
Friday nieht for the purpose of hear
i-- re report OF the executive COM
nnIttee had been passed