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and Johnny rintinv Huii-atch races at I Kaunas City, he colors of ut. both are (rivalry he led tin' point I own.iriffTonicWERE STILL POWERFUL ENOUGH .shake down of another 5%. No NOT TO NEED A PLATFORM? Dll) danger of it. being pa ed tin* third n .. • i i THEY THINK THAT THEY HAD time now, FOR THE OPPORTUNITY a.-c-p PLAYED ANOTHER CUTE POLI- TO BUY I'Old, '1 AX IS PASSED.TH AI, TRICK AND KILLED ALL WHAT WAS THIS SLUSH FUND OPPOSITION TO THE MACHINE? NEEDED FOR? WHaT HAS THE Me DO THEY STILL THINK THAT GREATER PORTION Oh IT BEEN wo. k. THERE ARE ENOUGH VOTES FOR1 Si’ENT FOR? Let me tell you that Sou* SALE IN LAREDO TO WIN THIS THE STREETS OF EAR EDO ARE • xodu NEXT ELECTION? If you are AN 4\(T IN NEAR AS BAD i IX AS ARE OLD TIMER in this neck of the THE POLITICAL FENCES OF THE woods, you know the game. If you ■ yt PROSED Independent Club, are a new comer, let me mention a The City Executive Committee oi few points as to why LAREDO HAS the “SUPPOSED” Independent Club thrum NOT BEEN ABIT? TO IMPROVE. are as follows preheitUtg toin dustlifts *.5 Uties/'n to IIL. J. Christen, Chairman Miguel Pena Juarez, Secretary. Pedro Leos,Jnu. A. Vails,E. M. .Jimenez,A. M Hi uni,J. I’. Martinez,Eugene Christen,J. A. Rodriguez,B. J. Lt yendecker,Juan Trevino Gonzales,Can It he possible tli.it tie* Superin(By At | A us j noil V , m hat |.or qlj ■,lale‘ i t^i «x iiii.uu ii Urleaii THE SUPPOSED INDEPENDENT CLUB OF TODAY IS THE CLUBPART OF WHAT WAS AT ONETIME A FAIRLY REPRESENTATIVE POLITICAL PARTY, AND NOT A FAMILY REUNION HELD DAILY AT THE COURT HOUSE.” Border politics in days gone By meant vote getting around election times. This meant bringing votes from over the river, voting people who had beenburied many years, voting the samename in each of the four wards; and tendent of our Public School:;, the everybody getting “souzed to the District Attorney o) Webb, Zapata, gills, when the returns showed vie- and bimmitt counties, the Webb tory, For those times, when Laredo County Tax Asst or, the W bb Coun-wns a mere Border Village, you might ty cuUn Clerk, and the Chic! Clerk of have found more than a hundred ji.e Tax Collector' Office know I'epre;. eiitative citizens backing the directly or indirelt; ly what ha. been fashionable methods of winning dec- done with the “S . h Funds” of Hie lions, When poll tax receipts had to • PROSED independent (Nun? be purchased, a SLUSH FUND was Could it be possible that the POLK E tUM4,u made up, the receipts bought by the FORCE OK THE CITY OF LAREDO anl u. wholesale, and stored In the strong WAS USED IN AN) WAY TO SPEND box of the OLD INDEPENDENT SOME OF THIS MONEY? The Coun-CLUR.” But there came a time when ty Treasurer E, a n ou that Ex**. utive this was against, the law, and ‘‘Border Committee Last of the “SCPROSED Politics'* became rather risky, espe- independent Club; but can it be that dally where the Federal Courts could the salary ol the pus tion is “the tie get a “look in’’ on the violations, which hinds” him to such onerous Than it developed that you could only . duties? IT MAY HE THE TRUTHN e vveatere whose uu, riihat 1 tor m; accoui brides Thor i s not at the I hrsiJ, UOM - „ „ - v. .. . . . - - I JIOIfind twenty or thirty representative OF THE MATTER COULD BE THAT high t citizens who were willing to be openly THE COUNTY COURT HOUSE OF- rtUll , backing the “Border Politics.” For pick HOLDER DON'T (’ARE SO ,.1Jart,utheir mutual protection these thirty or-MUCH ABOUT CITY POLITICS, if lt;mn(. foray became fast friends, and pooled they had ax many votes out in the ,, Ui3 , I heir interests. It started to be a count y as there are here In the city. Agai “Family Affair, where several very it may be that they see the “hand do e relations and friends could do writing on the wall” which says either certain things and depend upon those wju the City Election or a “House implicat' d keeping quiet. Not quite Cleaning” is certaii lj going to hit the ;o many representative citizens, and Court House.they represented themselves more REMEMBER, THAT THE LAREDO than they could afford to represent CLUB NOMINATES ITS TICKET iN the community. As the Laws tighten- open MASS MEETING, ITS EXECU-ed down, only a few of the “Old TIVE COMMITTEE ARE UEPKETimers in Politics” could afford to TENTATIVE BUSINESS MEN, WHO ,.jr,s hang on to the “Old Methods,” AND NEITHER HOLD NOR ARE SEEK- a„( THE COURT HOUSE BECAME 1NG OFFICE HUT THEY ARE m HEADQUARTERS FOR THE DAILY SEEKING A WAY TO M .UK LA- (| m FAMILY REUNION. REDO A PROGRESSIVE AND UP ike fiit/rTM I - mm;' nom)the re sideral lies of world grooms matiiu: Furtl femiair cajoled liages in the .ii1 i fe foiYOU OLD TIMERS, who know the DA I E Cl 1 t. WHILE I 1!K St i (.(;m various combinations of family and POSED ^ ^ iNDEI’l NDEN I ' LI H Ud 1financial interests in Laredo, TAKE NOMINATED A i U IvLl IN liiE (;1 j £ vtj. . .. . . / , , lit i » ' till' I I I 1 A I i
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Laredo Weekly Times
Laredo, Texas, US
Sun, Mar 07, 1920
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