Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-11-29
Looker-On In Iona

/ The public service commission Of
New York tested 32.552 gas meters in
| October and found that 55.S per cent
Of these We're registering per cent or
more in excess of what Went thru.
While 60 were registering . Per cent
or more than that less than Went thru.
Curious variation.
The above is from an eastern paper.
How many gas meters in Iowa that
/ need testing. and this work to be done
by someone not an employe of the gas
company?
Boston. Nov. 16.--The first step in
what promises to be the biggest pro
ject for the improvepe of local trans
por,aton facilities undertaken for many
years and involving the expenditure Of
about 100000 was taken TODAY by
the Boston & Maine and New York
New Haven & Hartford railroad COM
panes. The two companies addressed
petition Of the legislature 70 acquire
the Boston. Revere Beach e. LYNN rail-
rad upon such terms as may he APP
proved by the Nas=a chuse;ts board of
railroad commissioners.
This press r. por' evo'ains itself II
also suggests our farcicel attempt here
n Iowa 10 control our railroaa oorpora
lions by railroad commissions as at
present constituted. as well as the fact
that our railroad commission, even
supposing they wished 80 do things"
lack legal power 10 do only the per-
functory duties. Why It even sounds
stranger to read that this big REFERRED
TO corporation. petitions" for author
ity' "to acquire" on terms approved
by the railroad commissioners of Mas
sachusetts."
Il illustrates how text without the
context sometimes alters statements
when the following clipped from Col
lier's, under the head of Are Demo-
Gratis Devils" Is read by Iowa readers
who read the whole speech:
Senator Cummins. speaking in Chi
cago shortly before the election. adj
vised his hearers to vote for any re-
publican, however reactionary, agains.
any democrat. however enlightened.
Has Robert NJ LaFollette, in all Of his
career. ever said anything that could
be put in a class with this! Senator
LaFollette knows his principles and
a bides by them and they are principles
which are sound Such thoroughgoing
partnership as the Iowan expressed
does not fit the conditions OF the pres
emit
The day after election there was a
don't care" expression heard all along
the line Ten days after the same
voters were mad as wet hens" be-
cause LATE Young was appointed U.
s. senator No single act Of any gov
ernor has in twenty-five years brought
out the condemnation that this APP
pointment has. Even the standpatters
are disguised. If he had only appointed
George A. Perkins. Hepburn or Lacey
they would have been better pleased.
And Senator Cummins comes in for
lot Of unjust criticism from the pro-
gressives. Such incorporate men say
"Cummins told us to vote the straight
ticket" I'VE did and LATE Young Is
the result" These critics forget en-
tirely IL they had scratched the ticket
and elected Porter, Governor Carroll
could have still appointed LATE Young
any time before Jan. I. 1911, when his
term will expire.
There's a man in northwestern Iowa.
whose name il given here would carry
weight with what follows. Speaking of
| a possible deadlock in the legislature
! in January next, he said, before the
/ legislature meets caucuses of both par
ties will be held to select a nominee
for United States senator. II all re-
publicans attend such caucus man
tina. can be classed as a progressive
! will be named. II the standpatters re-
| fuse to attend and be bound by such
a caucus thereby permitting nomina-
ton, then the legislature can be called
together, and a law passed requiring q
special primary to be held inside OF
thirty days, and the choice Of the peo-
pie 80 expressed at such a primary the
standpatters will not dare to disregard
OF course this implies the democrats
will fall in with such plan, and the
speaker thought even the standpatters
would not dare to oppose such a fail
proposed method. Another man pres
ent, however remarked don't be toe
sure OF that"
~