The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-07
Dayton & Western Franchise
Proposition Will Be Dis
cussed Wednesday Night
At Conference.
STUDY PLAYING
POLITICAL GAME.
Desires to Shoulder Part of
The Mistakes of Democrat
ic Administration on Repub-
Iican Council.

Wednesday night the Councll VIII |
meet with the board of public works |
for the purpose of discussing the Day
ton & Western traction franchise
question. The discussion will revolve
about the point as 10 whether or not
the traction company shall pay the
city for the franchise.
Council agreed TO meet with the |
board to consider the matter, after |
City Attorney Study had made sue
cessful political move to shoulder on
to council the responsibility of pre-
pairing the terms of the franchise. Mr..
Study fears that no matter the kind
of franchise the city would offer the
D. & W. there would be some people
who would object to it. He realizes
that the present administration is in
the bad graces of the majority of
business men and to avoid having the
board serve as a target for any more
criticism he now desires council TO
shoulder the responsibility in the fran
chise case. He told council this last
evening and council agreed to his pro-
posal.
Slippers Denounced.
In the course of his remarks last
evening, Mr.. Study denied that the
board had been shirking its RESPONSE
bilities in the d. & w. matter. He said
| that the criticisms showered upon the
board were most unjust as the board
had been and was anxious to take the
matter up. He denounced the local
shippers because of the activity they
showed in pffpPtinC nf
the T. H. I. & E. matter. after the
board had allowed it to drag along
| for over a year. and he resented the
action Of the shippers in bringing the
u. & w. franchise question to a focus.
| BY so doing, he said. they We're "hur-
| rying' the board and giving the COM
panv the same weapon furnished the
T. H. l. & E.-a club to swing over
the head of the board
Study Turns Turtle"
Mr.. Study took occasion to remark
that he did not approve Of the fran
chise recently given the T. H. I & E.
This statement he made notwithstand-
ing the fact that he had previously
stated that he fully approved of the
franchise. His statement that the
shippers were "hurrying" the board,
caused everybody TO smile. This alb
surd statement was made in the face
of the fact that the shippers have
for two years patiently awaited a set
| tlement of the D. & w. question, and
in the face of the fact that Secretary
Haas of the Commercial club had the
D. & w. prepared the franchise which
the board now has under consider
alton. because Mr.. Study had asked
him to pursue this course in an ef-
fort to effect a settlement.
The city attorney told council that
the D. & w was a part of an immense
blood-sucking corporation The Ohio
Electric Railway system-and that if a
a satisfactory franchise was not now
obtained from it. one never would be
secured and Richmond would grovel in
the dust under the heel of a brutal op-
pressor. He said that the shippers
could afford to wait until satisfac-
tory agreement could be made, for
such an agreement would be of inesti-
mable value to the unborn generation
of business men.
Mr.. Study stated that the D. & w.
operated lQLO InlS CITY over lne
tracks of the T. H. l. & E company
Not cents worth of property. he said
did the D. & w. own in this city. Such
being the case. he asked. why should
they be given a franchise unless they
paid the city a round sum for it?
He stated that he thought induce
ments should be offered to traction
and railroad lines TO come to Rich.
mond, but he did not think citizens
should be forced to take TO the out
skirts and let these companies monopo
lize the town.
At the meeting Wednesday evening
local shippers will be invited to attend
TO work with the councilmen in assist
ing the board members to perform one
Of the duties conferred upon them by
their office. 1t is quite probable that
at this meeting the board will be told
to get busy and do something. Off
GERS of the D. & W. stand ready to
meet with the board at any time and
the board will probably be reminded
that the quickest way to effect a set
tlement of the question is to drop pol
itics and meet with the D. & W. peo