The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-12
Claimed That Since He Owes His Office to the People He
Should Serve the interests of the People in Present
Traction Difficulty and Resolutions Are Passed.
INDIGNANT SPEAKERS BITTER ARRANGEMENT
Board City Attorney, Shippers and Commercial Club All
Censured for Their Stand in Matter-Twenteth Street
Residents Withdraw Objections.

sell any part of the Glen to the Penn
sylvania railroad. He said that the
officials had at no time any right to
do this and further stated that the
law would not permit such sale, but
the board had agreed to it despite the
law under the flimsy pretext of a
friendly suit" THE board Of works
should never have been so disregard
full of the public's rights" said Mr..
Nicholson.
The worst of all arrangements. as
characterized by the Grand Old Man
of Richmond" was the agreement to
the arrangement to run traction cars
through Glen Miller park. when not
even hacks are allowed to operate
there. Another evidence of the disre-
gard of the board for the people, Mr..
Nicholson stated. He maintained that
there were no street car lines in the
parks of Chicago and there should
be none here, Richmond following the
lead of the larger city.
The speaker claimed that the action
of the board was done simply to ap-1
pease certain number of Main street
residents who objected to cars rum
ming past their homes. 1T is selfish
ness pure and simple" said Mr.. Mich
olson. "Oh for the time when we will
get rid Of this and look out at the in
terests of the whole people giving up
personal ends, he said. Mr.. Nicholson
again reiterated his assertion that the
public during the fifteen months that
the squabble has been raging about
| It's head, did not really know that the
! line would go through Glen Miller
| park when the board through the
! newspapers talked of Twenty-third
street. The public was ignorant at all
times of the true situation, but it, as
| Is customary, has to be stirred to
activity by dynamite and the explosive
this time is the sight of the beautiful
| Main street banks of the Glen being
| eaten into by the workmen of the
| traction company. The public has be.
come aroused and demands that the
| desecration cease.
The shippers and the Commercial
club were dealt with in no light hand
ed manner by Mr.. Nicholson, for he
said that through a spirit of CONNER
cialism, these men forgetting the pub
| lies interests and thinking only of
their own, consented to the line boing
through the Glen.
Whole Fight Reviewed.
The story of the meetings before
the board of works in the past two
weeks and the story of the fight in
all its details during that period was
briefly described by Mr.. Nicholson
and he drew a graphic picture of the
dilatory actions of the board He told
of the action Of the council in indors-
ing the peoples cause and how in
spite of this the board of works re-
fuses to act.
/ He spoke of the attempt of the
board ito pull the wool over the eyes
OF the citizens of the city," and how
1t was continuing to do so. When Mr..
Nicholson closed his remarks there
was loud applause.
/ CommerciaIism Described.
The Rev. S. R. Lyons pastor of the
United Presbyterian church who from
the start identified himself with the
people against the vandalism of com.
mercialism," as he termed it, was the
next speaker 1t was the Rev. Lyons
who presented the appeal of the peo.
pie to the board of works the last time
a citizens committee appeared before
that body. DR.. Lyons said that he
felt that the people of Richmond faced
serious situation, one fraught with
both present and remote possibilities
Richmond ought to know and her citi
zens ought to know the great evil
which now threatens the peace and
quiet of the present age. The great
battle of the age is being fought be
tween the public with its interests. or
the one hand. and the great corpora
tfons with their interests on the other
The present fight is not Strictly 10
cal affair. but it is national All cities
at the present time are fightins
against the stings and the sinking o
the teeth of the great corporations in
to their flesh; those corporations
J which are now engaged in sucking the
J public's blood. We are part of the
national conflict and the fight beins
waged here is part of the genera
! fight which is now being waged ovel