United labor bulletin., 1911-10-19

The light company would at the ex-
piration OF ten years be Installed. They
would ask that their franchise be per
peiuated. and would fight against the
city taking over their lighting system un-
less an enormous price was paid.
The people want municipal ownership
OF public utilities, and now is the time
60 stop further renewals with the public
utility corporations.
Unless the courts come TO the rescue
oi tine i.eat sompany- the people viii have
a chance 10 vote on the light-grab ordi-
nance.
But a word about the scandal:
man prominent Ia labor circles falls
from that not heavily loaded vehicle
the water wagon-and In the course Of
his consumption OF whisky highballs.
swissessos. absinthe frappes and numer-
Gus drinks In which hen ffiut Is a prin-
cipal ingredient. he remembers that alb
scnco makes the heart grow fondcr. and
that absiuthc makes the partakcr richer
and he talks Of what may once have
been his fondest dreams In Chicago with
skinny" Madden.
He tells OF deals with the public util-
ity corporations in which thousands ex-
changed hands: OF slush funds that
would dazzle the eyes of n millionaire
and cure the itching palm of the gradu-
He formed combinations among labor
politicians; he made and unmade deal
ers" for each combination-and named
them in the flesh by their proper cog
nomen-and put the money In their
hand-and d. near sent about n
dozen TO jail-temporarily.
If the general public ever hears OF the
kind OF stun they sell at Tom Hyder's
he'll do an awful business.
Then comes one Sullivan. reporter on
the Rocky Mountain News. who earns a
living writing labor news among other
stuff-"stuff" is good in this case. He
just eats 1t up" He says in the News
OF Friday. the 18th. that someone had
approached the light company and Of
fered to stop the petition spoken of above
for $1,000. that conspiracy existed
among n certain clique in Labor's Eco
nomic League to circulate the petition
and then sell II to the light company;
that J. a. conkle. II. p. Means. +. A.
Bryan. ID. Fallon, c. J. Common and H.
NJ. Mum were the ones that paid the
the cost was $1,000.
In naming the men that paid for the
circulating OF the petition he inferred
that In them the conspiracy existed TO
blackmail the light company.
A BLAckER LIBEL WAS NEVER
WRITTEN NOR PRINTED.
The thing is lie from its very begin
ming. if.
We need only point to the cost of the
petition to show the unreliableness OF
the writer. the paper and the article.
The petitions cost s119.66-total cost
to file them with the city clerk with
over 1900 names on their pages; the
News says $1,000.
The DeLue Detective Agency VIII tell
you that the names are nearly all bogus.
The Bulletin knows that the petitions
contains names of legal voters-sworn to
by those who circulated the petitions.
A suit has been filed by one Vinton-
n tool OF the detective agency-in behalf
off the light company. asking that the
pctitions be thrown out by the elections
commission. Elliott & Bardwell are the
attorneys for the light company-and
Elliott OF this firm is district attorney
The man Tom Patterson fought so hard
for TO have elected. He has spent his
term In office in behalf of the corpora
tions.
The Bulletin believes no criminal act
hos been committed. and the closest In
vcstigation Is urged and courted that
this outrageous libel may be nailed.
Judge Frost and Messrs. Short and
Eisier are a committee from the Direct