Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-01

son why the people SHAUN se -, wont
= n,,hiic utilities commission, made up OF
1iisinferested experts in busihess a. -
as in law but want more 1uuicia' III.
cbinery. like Taft,s commerce cou Jul !.
shich we are glad to see congress pro
,,,,ses IN eliminate.-Lewiston journal
Thursday, June 70
But II happens-and we ws"' 10
make this emphatic as words ca"
make it-that the Lewiston jour
nal had no more to do with start
ina a referendum on public ut,h-
ties than did Governor Ha'nes.
The Lewiston Journal never had
anvthjna whatever to do, even IN
,4he remotest way, with its incep.
t;on. or Observation-Disclosures
Journal, Saturday, June ~.
n seems to be unnecessary to go
hack farther than to the middle OF last
week to settle the. case to the satis-
faction of any intelligent person. Ac-
cepting the obvious Dingley CONCLUSION
that 7. !. readers do not read his n.y.
phenated bosh, cannot UNDERSTAND
what he is driving at, or forget II at
once. We would ask those who nave
last weeks papers to glance at them
for a study of the reliability % OF u.
j. statements.
Of course those who are working TOT
the interests of large and selfish cor
nora tons, those in the promotion OF
yater mower companies, and those
teaehing. for public franchises when
the public is not looking. will hght,
tooth and nail, to prevent the pub1c
utilities commission from being legal
commission. OF couse Dingley and his
crowd would have it made up of bust
ness men, mechanics" and "engi-
neers." who might be more easily ad-
died and misled by slick corporation
counsel
The way Mr.. Pattangall as House
leader used to sway the Legislature, IL
Illustrates. just how Mr.. Pattangall as
ccr,toration counsel would pull the wool
over the eyes of a Dingley public util-
tiles commission of business men.
Quite probably the Libby-Dingley con-
Germ of capitalists and promoters would
fuliy agree with Editor Dingley, who
holds ND his hands in holy horror be-
cause of the iniquities of corporations
away off somewhere, where it does
not Interfere with the Dingley pocket
book.
: II would hardly be safe for the Lib
hx-Dipgley or the Dingley-Lord COM
binations TO attempt to monkey with
Hon. Luere B. Deasy, or with Hon.
William b. Shelton, or Hon. Joseph
Williamson. OF course they are, in the
Dingley2 parlanee, tories OF Republic
canism and tories of Democracy" but
they would quite readily pounce on
corporation lockers" and other trick
ery for cheating the public. Hence
they are not wanted by Dingley and
his crowd. They constitute wicked,
wicked court" and we would have
Won understand that anything uniof-
tunates enough TO be characterized as
court" is everlastingly Dingley blast
ed.
or course we may believe that neith-
er Editor Dingley nor the Libby Ding
ley-Lord, organ even thought of rel
erendum until this great popular ca
NOR (nand of Kingsbury b. Piper
started Then Dingley remembered
that the wicked corporations mad
fought for and accomplished public
utilities law, and, more horrible sui
"A ssCOURT." 1t was then that Ding
ley awoke to his duty, closed his eyes
turned his mouth loose and dictated
volumes of hyphenation on tories
and courts"
An. no; the Lewiston Journal wants
IL very emphatically understood that II
NEVER had anything TO do with en-
couraging referendum.
..sTh4 people certainly CAN be trust
ed" and the friends of public UTILITIES
court or commission) are glad u
trust them with the public utilities
subject through the referendum; but
dear Dingley. they cannot be FOOLEl
safy longer by the Dingley special bran'
Of deceit The time has come to plac
the traducers of Names cleanest an
abIest public men where they belong
and 70 show up some of the skeleton
the private closets. Some OF thes
sn.,nnafors. defamers, slanderers, ca
Iuminators. back-biting lampoonefs
uretenders, hypocrites, should
thrown on MI. Hyde side on tn
screen