El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-01-23
HARMONY SHY
AMONG DEMOS
Latest Effort Is to Wipe the
Kelly Candidates From
the Davis Ticket.


\ mass meeting has been called for
the county court house tonight to en-
! dorse ticket for the city election.
! Men of all political faiths have been
asked TO be present and il is said 10
be the plan to endorse the Davis
! ticket with the exception Of +. 3. Sim
mons and r c Semple for aldermen
/ and Dave Sullivan for COLLECTION,
other words to endorse all the men ON
the ticket except the three put On by
. c. Z. Kelly in the Davis-Lea- Kelly com
/ promise.
1t is said 10 be the plan Of the meet
ing to nominate l. P. McChesnev and
VIII Hord for aldermen in place OF
Simmons and SempIe and to name c. A.
Kline for treasurer ir place Of SulIi-
van In the event of such an action,
II IS believed the ring" crowd would
nominate Simmons. Semple ana SuIlf-
van on the !. H Harper ticket 1t is
said Davis and his supporters would
support Semple. Simmons and Sullivan
however, to the end. unless the Kelly
faction declared openly for Harper and
should put out a full ticket with him
Harmony No Longer Exists
II IS settled that harmony no longer
finds its home in the ranks Of local
Democracy True. the leaders of the
a ticket upon which they hoped TO
harmonic the Democratic voters But
the voters refuse to be led. There are
too many walking delegates on the
political job and TOO many sore arlhi-
tions that have been ignored by the
self appointed leaders
Old ring men are suspicious th1- tile
ants have framed up to defeat their
two aldermanic candidates on the
Davis compromise ticket. They say
that leaders of the anti faction are re-
sponsible for the candidacy of L. T.
McCEesEey and VIII HOrd and that
the plan is to run these two in over
Frank &. Simmons and r. c. Semple.
50 as 10 save all the appOintees OF the
Lea administration and that to this
end, all of the present city employees
dependent candidates This plan car
ried out would. they claim. give mayor
Lea's friends control of the new city
administration
No Sensation Over Harper.
No one seems TO be paying much at
tention TO J. H Harper's candidacy for
mayor. Rumor says he is simply
rallying post for those dissatisfied I
with the aldermanic selections on the
Davis compromise ticket, which has I
failed 10 harmonic
On the other hand. however. the I
friends OF Harper claim that ne VIII Z
receive the united labor vote and many /
Of the dissatisfied independent" votes. !
There also seems TO he considerable 3
soreness among the old ring crowd /
over the fact that the saloon element /
not only aided in the defeat of the /
Kelly ticket two years ago. but refused I
To support the ring ticket in the last 4
election.
The saloon men opposed the many
Socalled clubs and have been friendly .
to the Lea administration. il Is known. T
because he put SO many Of these la
dodgers out Of business Mayor Lea F
has always taken the position that as
long as Fl Paso had saloons and the
saloon men paid licenses. the clubs I'M
less absolutely legitimate. should NOT a
operate The saloon men have been
pleased at this attitude.
NeutraIS Pick Davis.
In any event il looks like tine APP
preaching city election is going 20 be z
4 rather warm miX-up before the polls
lose in April The average business
nan who is not taking any active
part in politics seems TO consider il a I