The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-04-24
AUTOS FLYING AROUND CARRYING
VOTERS TO AND FROM POLLS
FOR OPPOSING FACTIONS
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP SEEMS
EXCEEDINGLY POPULAR
Many Tickets and Parts of Tickets and
Bewildering Combinations Make the
Contest One of Unusual Interest
Municipal Ownership Popular.

After a period of suspended anima-
ton which made many pronounce the
''critter" dead, Mr.. City Politics awoke
fighting mad and has been cutting up
all sorts of queer capers. What with
tickets and parts of tickets and rum
ors and reports and parades and
speeches and gum-shoeing and num-
erous other things, there is more life
and animation in the contest than in
any election in recent years.
There is the Citizens ticket. There
is the Socialist ticket that failed to
get on the ballot. Then there is the
movement for Judge E. A. Walters for
mayor. There is an Independent tick
ct with the name of w. A. Minnick on
it, for city clerk. The labor meeting
Sunday afternoon put forth I. E. Fin
ney and II. F. Henry for councilmen.
This appeared yesterday on the sample
cards with the names Of these gentle
men and that of w. A. Minnick for
city clerk.
Last night at a meeting held at the
Masonic hall Messrs. Finney and
Henry were endorsed and sample bal
lots were sent over town with the
names of these gentlemen placed op-
posite the names of e. ]. Ostrander
and G. B. Channel, candidates in the
First and Second wards, respectively
with crosses in the. squares to the
right.
Such was the state of affairs when
the polls opened this morning, so far
as the number of candidates is con-
cerned.
The outstanding fact in connection
with the whole contest is the appar-
ent popularity of municipal owner
ship, and the devotion to it manifested
by most of the candidates Messrs
Finney and Henry are avowed munich
pal ownership candidates. The So
cialists are for community ownership
of public utilities as part of their lar
ger system. Replying to the report
that he was opposed to municipal light
and power Judge Walters. yesterday
gave out a signed statement in the
course of which he said:
"The time is certainly ripe for the
City of Twin Falls to begin an inves-
tigation looking toward a municipally
owned lighting and power plant, anC
this problem should be given imme
date study and investigation by tn,
city authorities to the end that tn,
City of Twin Falls may own its owl
power and lighting plant. I am il
favor of the city of Twin Falls own
ing its own power and lighting sys
tenn
The friends of Councilman Brackel
pointed to his past record as an evi
dence of what his future course wouI,
e be and circulated a signed pledg
t given April 21 on the subject; the dec
laration reading as follows:
Il am an earnest believer in tn
= principle of Municipal Ownership q
3 all Public Utilities. The present Mu
9 nicipal Ownership of our water work
I has proved an entire success from
y financial standpoint, and forms tn
n necessary basis for the final owner
e ship of system that will give to tn
citizens supply of satisfactory wate'
| most fully believe the City of Twi
: Falls should own its own light an
power plant and that great car
should be exercised to see that sue
e power should be obtained from tn
. most available source of supply, and
! elected will use my best efforts to oil
tain this end, even as 1 have worke
: and been instrumental in obtainin
the present municipal ownership {
- the present water system
:. Last night the friends of Jude
= Walters held a big auto parade
. through the streets of the city, 70
= lowed by a public meeting addresse
{ by their candidate
In addition to all these public a,
:, tivities, the friends of the candidate
: have worked with tireless energy fc
: the past couple of days, autos are rur
= ming back and forth through the cit
" bringing voters and public intere
, runs high.