Show THEY HAVE CAUSE FOR COM COM- PLAINT NT Members of or the Order of Locomotive Firemen and asked Governor Gover Gover- nor Hughes of New York to make aman a n aman man of or their selection one ono of or the ten members on the Public Service com mission They were willing to su suggest gest the names of any number all practical railroad men and all aU eligible as to character and anti fitness But the governor governor gover governor nor declined to accept any of their selections and named the tho entire ten ten ten- membership of tho the most Important commission within his power without power without taking even one from the railroad service He lie is governor and anel probably has a good reason for declining to recognize the union men in this matter But it seems they asked nothing more than what they ther were entitled to and no nomore nomore nomore more than could have been granted with perfect regard for the Interests of or the people That Public Service commission is immensely powerful In New York Ilhas It Il has an almost absolute control of the public utilities of every sort and of course exercises supervision and power over the railroads At least one practical railroad man would have been useful on the commission on And yet et It is to be hoped the railroad railroad rail rail- road men will not carry their resentment resentment resent resent- ment to the point Indicated In tho the dispatches dispatches dispatches dis dis- dis- dis patches and seek to punish h In a political cal cat way the man they feel reel has un un- necessarily offend offended ed them Su Surely rely Governor Hughes has no purpose of being unfair to anyone |