Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-31
';HANGA MADE IN
| MEETING TIME
Fomorrow's Commission Form
Gathering to Be Held in
I the Afternoon.
!. A. SHERMAN TO TALK
Plans for INTELLIGENT Discussion of
Proposition-Ehe McCaskrin
Meeting.

he time for .omorrow,s mass
ting at the Rocl Island rink, Six
!ss, IN street, at which the commits
kS25. form of government viii be dis
was "a in full by Ernest A. Sherman
II edar Rapids, has been changed
or the evening to the afternoon.
i'd Sherman's address will begin at
3Sihe 0 and the public GENERALLY is in
.iIit I'd to attend and listen 10 what
NJ - speaker has to say about the
9rfh of municipal government which
Us ITO be voted on in Rcsk Island and
moline Tuesday. He ishell how the
system has worked cut in Cedar
Rapids and in other cites in which
I 1t has been tried and De is thor
oughly competent for theltask.
For some 20 years MI Sherman
published newspaper in Cedar Rap
ids. and he is thoroughly familiar
with the conditions there both be-
fore and since the adoption of the
commission form. This ook place
three years ago and he VIII submit
figures TO show the Eonderful
strides taken by the city once that
time.
WORKS GOOD ELSEWHERE.
Local people are in receia of let
tiers from many different citi4 which
have had the advantage of govern
ment by commission for sone time
and in each case the advice is the
samt-adopt the plan for iii is the
logical way of managing tbel affairs
O. corporation. There are testi-
moniGls from Des Moines and frcm
Fusion, Tex, which are especially
Siteresting and as Mr. Sherman is
enIiliar with these as well as lwith
these of his own city he will Srob-
ably touch on them tomorrow otter
noon.
KNOW ABOUT DIES NIOINES.t
NJ. FrankeI and A. FrankeI, two
of the most prominent business men
of Des Moines who were in Rock Is
land this week. spoke enthusiastic
ally of the operation of the comtis-
sion form Of government in hat
city. Eve would not go back 70 The
old way for any consideration. slid
the first mentioned. at brings de
city government closer to the pet
pie. They know and can watch wal
is going on. The consequence is thai
the people are always satisfied. IL
involves business principles and hal
resulted in a saving of at least 4
per cent to Des Moines and as a
suit we are now building the fined
municipal building in the state 4
Iowa. People of all classes arr
pleased with the plan"
A. Frankel said: 1T is the ideal
way of running a city. Everybody in
Des Moines is satisfied. Des Moines.
after three years trial. would not re-
cede from it in thousand years"
THE McCAsKRIN MEETING.
Mayor George ". McCaskrin spoke
last night at the Illinois theatre in
condemnation of the commission
form of municipal government At
the beginning of his address, there
were but few voters present, but
through the evening a little more
than 800 heard at least part of his
address.
Mayor McCaskrin claimed that the bill
passed by the Legislature making
possible the commission form of mu-
ntcipal government is a joke anti
really should be treated as such. He
held that its constitutionality has
never been proven, and as a matter
OF fact, never will be. You people
want representative form of govern4
ment," said McCaskrin, but through
the adoption of this you throw your