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Show !The Light Plant. Unniiu.icAN asscitions as to the completion of the municipal electilc light plant, made dining the lccentj campaign, weie based on .statements from the gentlemen who did all the contiactingaud knew moie fully than anyone else the details of that woik. The contiacts made have not been complied with, and as a consequence, their assertions, and ouis based on theirs, have not pioved tine. Contracts Con-tracts for macliineiy called foi November No-vember deliveiv, and the electric light committee had no icasou to believe be-lieve thai those contiacts would not be tilled. Likewise, the Hell Telephone Tele-phone Co. was a little slow in getting staitcd on its pole and wiring contract, con-tract, and the condition of the weathei a month ago made the woik more dilllciilt in the canjon than anticipated. an-ticipated. All of the del.ijs have been fioin unfoiesjon causes and aiccntiic-ly aiccntiic-ly excusable. Jt is seldom that huge plants of tills descilptiou, or even those pushed by pihate capital, aie completed in the time allowed, and falrminded people who know anv tiling at all of the stienuoiis eiloits ol .Mai or Hansen and the electilc light committee, know that that plant Is as near completion now as any set of men could have biought It. Accord-ing Accord-ing to the local oigan of opposition, tlic machinery for the plant was shipped Tuesday. If this is hue, we may reasonably expect this to leach Logan In a month and the plant to bo HBHbHaw- ' read foi business hi l'Ybiuarj. A delai of i month and a half- that's a crime isn't It? Instead of this senseless sense-less and lll-natuicd badgeiing on the put of adlsgiuntled few whocvldcnt-lyhavo whocvldcnt-lyhavo not learned as jet that the campaign is over and that they were beaten, theie should be an awakening to a loyal disposition and a deshe to assist, as-sist, lather than discourage, the olll-clals olll-clals who arc now engaged Incompleting Incomplet-ing a plant, the tlnal outcome of which Is vital to us all. This plant will be constructed OK. There have been a few hitches, and there will he a few moie, but not moie than arc usually attendant In such matters, and not moi c than were a part and paicel of the Hercules people's efforts to establish estab-lish their sistem here. That plant, when constructed, must be paid for cveiy citizen Is vitally Inteicstcd In that 0.',,000, and they should, must and will stand by the city plant thiougli thick and thin. They should suppoit the oillcials coiistiucting the plant, and suppoitthe city plantwlien completed "the only's" assertion to the contiaiy notwltstandlng. |