Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-17

REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC PLANKS WRIT
TEN BY SAME PERSON.

We have discussed the attack upon the public utilities
law and the commission contained in the Republican and
Democratic platforms in relation to the demand for re-
call of the supreme courts decision in the brought to
declare that law unconstitutional by company which pre-
ferred make that kind of attack rather than to sub
nit to the provision of the law requiring permit to enter
field already occupied but have not discussed those
platforms attacks upon the commission law
While the plans worded to try to convey the
impression that the public interest sought unhes
tatngy declare that such wording used for decpve
purposes to conceal the real purpose which is to weaken
the efficacy of public utility law which IS already too
weak to be effective to the best interests OF the
people of the state it should be, and which should bel
amended to strengthen the power of the commission
rather than to weaken it, If the commission is the
right commission that not the fault of the law but the
fault of the appOntive power and II the two old parties
had any real for complaint against the com
missoners and not against the law That they saw tit tO
attack the law and not the abuse or supposed abuse OF
the use Of that power by the commissioners, shows that
the purpose of both parties is to the same old IN
eress they served when both opposed the enactment OF
a public utilities law.
It should not be forgotten that neither of the two old
parties has been friendly to the creation OF public
utilities commission but the contrary both have OPP
posed and the fact that the state now has public ut-
ties law due solely fear of the Progressive party which
received such large vote two years ago.
Is it not significant that the only authentic utterances
of both the old parties upon the public utilities question:
is criticize the law the commissioners and the court
which upheld the law and that they should demand that
the law be amended to return the state nearly
possible to the condition it was III before the law was en-
acted?
True, the RepuDncan party some SIX years ago ue-
clared for railroad commission 1t deserted the plank
during the campaign however and its legislature deGber
aey refused to be bound by the declaration and in subse
quent platforms the railroad commission idea de-
serted The party did declare in favor of public
utilities law and does not believe in it, That why
the present law is attacked.
But therein does not lie the chief Oense of both
parties Both have right to oppose utilities law if they
desire The chief oense of both the deception practced
in their declarations Both make the absolutely false
sumption that the public utilities commission has done
something that the law allows something to be done,
that will retard the full development of the of
the state. The Republican platform says
all other the
The Democratic platform says:
econdem
public policy of
1t is impossible to believe that such similarity of dec
laraton based upon such similarity of false assumption
did not from the and here make the
charge that the panks upon the public utilities law
written dictated for both these political parties by
representative of the interest and that the purpose
of both panks is to deceive the people that the public
utilities law may be weakened to allow the eXplota-
ton of the people of the state that existed before the
acnent of this law forced unwlingy from the Re
publican and Democratic parties