Show Plea to to Retain Railroad Commission Rocky Mountain News ik At the November election votes were cast for the tun tri i I nel net proposition and votes rotes against it It f w Th Tb reader is reminded that the r. r vote for tunnel construction by the state was the largest cast at any time for a measure submitted to the peo- peo I r. r plo vIa Many important measures have haye r. r been adopted by one halt the vote cast for the proposition In question combine opposed A railroad fuel t tho the initiated measure and ad spent a great deal of money to defeat It Supporters of of the tunnel proposition tion had tad d no money to spend beyond the the bare necessities It was a volun- volun r tary Mary movement altogether and had a ar ax x r remarkable rem success That it was r iI defeated with such powerful oppose oppose- opposition rk tion was not s surprising that it Il s1 should come com 30 so close to success and poll such a great big Jig vote in the facer face r 6 o of a statewide wide lobby was the real surprise and the Hie surprise sunrise was interests opposed to tot rf g-rf greatest ate to the I. I t It From the day after the election the machinery used in ill the pre election campaign 1 was set to work to make It 1 Impossible a second id reference of the I measure to a 8 popular vote Organ Organ- z j 01 of th the he t twenty-third twenty enty- enty general I was w undertaken und Y and put tb 4 J y ih the b lobby for for the I ol of repealing the law creating creat creat- j ing tLe state railroad commission in fn l' l turn torn was responsible for forS L' L S- S 1 r. r to the tuc people tho the tun trl-tun- f 5 s nel net construction measure Ul Ae As per lobby plan the senate lonate on second rending reading has bas passed the repealing repealing repeal repeal- q ing lug measure and in day or ot two it will willand p pawl pa a on on and so a go to the h ho house Un Unless els there Is 18 a down taU by the lobby the repealing law will pus pass the house hOUie and go to tho the I tl tive vc t o v can an the Republican 1 party varl w wholly I IIi IJ 1 J Ii f J responsible for all that is taking place at the state house afford to kill the only opportunity given to the people to vote for relief from the transportation difficulties that have beset them and their for man many years If the state railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road commission law Is repealed the people of ot Colorado are again tu turned ned over to the tender mercies of the combine that has hindered instead of advanced Colorados Colorado's progress This is to be done If it the lobby has Its way by a government Republican can from top to bottom What will the party leaders have to say to the I more than one hundred thousand voters who voted In November for tor forthe forthe the tunnel tri measure Will not many of these voters come to th the conclusion conclusion conclusion con con- that snap judgment was taken taken taken tak tak- en upon them A measure pending in the the legislature legislature legislature legisla legisla- ture to change the manner of voting for or tunnel construction to divide the state into three improvement I districts and aud have each district vote on its single proposition If the voters voters vot vot- ers em in he territory tE embraced In the Moffat tunnel are tor for its construction construction tion all fill ri right ht if t. t ilio t voters In the theother theother I other othel territories a opposed to tunnel tunnel tunnel tun tun- i nel construction D in their districts all allright right right the e Moffat tunnel will go by itself But if the repeaT repealing g law becomes becomes be be- I be-I comes comes- effective w would be no nou I u ui e a in pressing this me measure s' s re there there would be beno no one in authority th railroad ra commission would woul be abol abol- Tho The state of Colorado would be turned over ove over t tra Tail rail ra road rOl interests which have their at- at i ton t elsewhere Colorado pe people p have been thinking think think- lug for deeply on the tle ral railroad road situation In tn their stater v ver r since they awal awakened awaken awaken- mcd m- m ed cd ono one day t to find that the States State's principal pal transportation on dr It ry y had been Jeen sold Bold out and aud t L U er Y were viro wholly at ht tho mercy ot of of foreign Interests V |