The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-08-15

liola. independence. cherryyale, New
/ ton. Marion Neod eslta Ioeka l4S'
lisa Wellington PARSONS flttsDurs
f1mporia. Anthony Caldwell, Dodes
lGftg Eareila.
flenfuc Newport q 0;sQe
Il .o1isi 4 Shreveport 2Si015
4 \ d achusettt sylii tia
lyeriifil n, IFS I, CI 81,
Imodified form d eomnis Hon EoysIn
lnefif also exists 81 ston (6 300
Tarntch q and lopees
MichigaH Port Huron isrbol
Mississippi Clark lies
lburs 3 z.
Minnesota
y North Dakota Afandan Blsma rcE
| afinot Grand Forks Fargo.
Joseph l77 ,40Sl
New Yorl Mount Vernon CSO, 91yl
New Mexico Roswell.
North Carolina High Point, Green
willie. Charlotte.
OkIahoIna rdmore, sBartles yi y.
Duncan, Enid, Miami, Manchester
IlMlskogee f25,27S1. Purcell sapulpa Z
Tulsa Guthrie; Wagner, OKLAHOMA
lefty sC89, 205) claremofe. s9'
ohag on Baker City.
South Carolina Columbia t2e, 3191t
South Dakota Dell Rapids Huron,
Pierre. Rapid City Sioux Falls, INK -
Iton. Vefmill lion. a
Tennessee Memphis (l8l, lOp1,
EEtogah, Bristol, elaFks lille Rteha.r 2;
City. /, ~
Texas Arkapsas Pass Austin y ~ !:
$500, Beaumont Corpus Christi, Dat
Elas t92 .1O4) sDenison, Fort Worth ~
Isi2l Galveston CS6,9s1l, Greenyi HE,
Houston (7S,SNO), Kennedy, ford
Marble Falls, Marshal Palestine, Rort
ILavaca, Sherman, Texarkata An
Ethony.
washington Tacoma ts874Sl, spo.
Ekane C104, 400.
wisconsin Eau Claire, Appleton:
West Virginia Bluefeld, Hunting
ton (31 1871, Parkersburg,
The list Is By no means complete
The movement is spreading SO fast
THAT ii rs impossible TO make q census
| q commission cities to-day. with any
that;it will be useful q
Eponth hence. Georgia is IN the throes
Of several campaigns; Montana 8 lea4
ling cities are all struggling with tho
Eodestion at he date Of writing; New
IJereey seems likely to add several
names this year.
In connection with the list Of com.
mission. governed cities, here Is q spg-
Igestive re.enforce cement Of the PROPOSE
Etion that good government pays
lThere We're in the United States just
twenty-five cities Of more than twep.
Ity.five thousand people. that doubled
their population between 1900 and
Ii81O, according to the Federal census
returns, IOt these, no fewer thans thiT:.
lteen today have commission govern.
[ment, In all. there are forty commits 1l
1slon. governed cities above TWENTY-FIVE
Ithonsand. thirteen of them, as ! have
said, doubled their population In ten
Iyesrs. ThereSare one hundred and
leighty.eight non:commissl oned.goy!
Termed cities Of the same class; only
mime Of them doubled.
The city with the yearning for good
government seems to have had one
lcbance in three to double its
ltion within the decade; the others
Ihad one 9chafce in twenty-one.
Conservative people are frequently
fearful Of the initiative and the re
call; but In experience these provi.
slons have seldom been invoked, and
Iwhen they have been, the percentage
OF successful and desirable results
has been decidedly higher than ip
municipal elections held under the
older systems.
Recently three members OF the Dial
Has school board were recalled. Los
Angeles, which has initiative, refereni
dun, and recall without he commits
sion plan proper, threatened to recall
mayor, but he resigned before the
Ibow fell. Seattle did recall a mayor
iSho was accused OF violating cam.
lnaign pledges, An alderman IN San
Diego was recalled. That the recall
lis so seldom employed is explained by
commision-goverled advocates on tn
ground that the double, non.partizar
election assures the selection Of men
whom It is not necessary to recall. I
With State and local leagues form
ling in al parts Of the country TO urge
1.-THE new plan; with constantly In;
kcteaslng volume Of educational work
and literature placing the system be,
Efore the people; with the commission
plan able still to boast that 1t has re:
corded no failure, that no city after
Eolce adopting has ever abandoned 1t;
with so many Legislatures passing
statutes tina authorize municipalities