The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-10-30
PRICE OF GAS
CAN Be CUT IN
TWO, SAYS EARLE
Shows How People Will BE
Gamers by Public Owner
ship of Utilities
PROMISES HE'LL SAVE
CITY MONEY IF ELECTED
Mayoral Candidate in Strong
Speech Praises Police Dept.
and DenOunces ID. p. w.

Horatio s. Earle, Progressive can
didate for mayor. In a meeting in
Streng's hall. at Forest-ave. and Nor
an-st., in the Thirteenth ward, Tues
day night. said:
Il challenge the two other candi-
dates TO publish the exact amount OF
their campaign contributions, ana
what they have paid out the money
Tor, 80 that all citizens can learn who
Is behind their campaign, who has
given them money, and what that
money went for"
II was Mr.. Earle's one hundred and
sixty-eighth talk of the campaign.
When the candidate arrived, there
were only about 10 people In the hall.
for someone had gone away with the
key in mis- pocket, and those who
came early, found themselves locked
out and went home again. Until an
audience could gather, Mr.. Earle sat
with the others around the stove ana
snapped stories. Gradually the hall
filled. and Mr.. Earle then took up his
speech.
What have my opponents con-
structed, SO that YOU may know their
sawbuck and their bucksaw and theiI
know how-to-saw? he asked. "Eigh.
teen years ago | went out for good
roads. The papers thought 1t was Sc
funny that they put me in the sport.
ing column. Well. got out of there.
| ceased to be joke. took of my
coat and went out and begged enough
money for the first mile Of good road,
and then found that there wasn't al.
engineer in the state who knew how
to build II. Since then, 1,200 miles
Of good roads have been built. That's
my sawbuck and bucksaw and know
how-to-saw.
IF I'm elected mayor, I'll do all /
can for the municipal ownership or
public utilities, but can't do single
thing unless you do your part. You
must vote for charter revision next
Tuesday Why, believe In municipaL
ownership is this: | know that the
Solvay Process Co. Is selling gas to
the Detroit City Gas Co. for 10 cents.
You are paying So cents. You see
what you might have gas for--not for
10 cents, for IL costs something To put
pipes in the ground, but for half OF
what you are paying now. The Other
candidates will wobble arou9d on this
topic and end up by doing nothinga
Take electric light and power Mr.
Dow once said that the city could cut
the price In two and still make enough
to light Detroit. Take the electric
railways. I'm glad to see that Mr..
Marx is saying the same thing that
am:-that the company can't afford TO
build lines into the sparsely populated
districts, but that the city can.
Another thing. II what Mr.. Mar
says about Mr.. Thompson is title, Mr..
ought not to be elected
mayor. II what Mr.. Thompson tiy~
about Mr.. Marx Is true. Mr. Mart
ought not TO be elected. II Mr. Marx
Marx ought not to be elected. lr
Mr.. Thompson is lying about Mr..
Marx, Mr.. Thompson ought not to be
elected For myself, ! only want a
chance to make record in that office.
When Pingree made his fight, 1
stood with him for municipal owner
ship when tile News didn't have any
slogan at the head Of its
editorial column They were agin US
then. and they're agir' me today.
We're paying taxes to support IL
OF Michigan, and that uni
versity Is turning out civil engineers
for us-and we've got druggist at
the head of he ID. =. W. don't be-
lieve the city ought to take appren.
tees. We ought to have an enginee
at the head Of that department. and II
I'm elected, II appoint one. Further
more, I'll have him Investigate the
cost that comes out OF
each dollar spent for sewers and pave
ments. You have never had that
figure. and you never will till you
have a man at the head OF the city
who will demand il,
don't know what II costs to spend a
dollar In Detroit. but | will know al
ter July l, 1913, II I'm elected; iand
I'll reduce ii 25 per cent or recall my
self by resigning.
When ] was state highway com
people used TO come TO the
door of my Office and rap, and | used
to yell: What are you rapping for?
This Is your office as well as mine.
Come In and tell me what you want
me to do Rapping on the door or
the state house.
You've got one good department.
the police department. You've got
enc rotten one-the ID. p. w. II you
elect one candidate, he'll appoint
someone else at the head OF the po
lice. and you'll get no Improvement
In the ID. p. W. II you elect another,
he'll appoint a Democrat at the head
of the police department and another
at the head OF the ID. p. W., and he
doesn't know whom he will appoint,
and he won't know until Judge Con
molly tells him. .
II like boys. can't do some
things that the other candidate can
because I've got 53l boys watching
me. have TO remember that I'm
yice-president of the Newsboys' asso
citation, and | can't do anything that
/ wouldn't want them to do.
I'm for Fairgrounds. Every boy
without a playground is the father
OF a man out OF job. III you own
vacant lot when I'm mayor, you're
likely to get a letter asking you 10
donate the use OF that Tot for play.
ground for the boys"
Mr. Earle then went to a church
fair In the Evangelical Lutheran
Rafhat church where hc was 0raatad