GRUNDY SEAT EYED BY TWO PROGRESSIVES

GRUNDY SEAT EYED BY TWO PROGRESSIVES Insurgent Republican and Democrat Mffc lioth Enter iRacc i* Pennsylvania (Special to The Progressive) WASHINGTON, D. C—Possible defeat for both the Vare and...

...GAS PLANT MAY BE TAKEN OVER OKLAHOMA CITY—A movement has been started in this city looking to the acquiring of the gas distribution system...
...Pinchot recently returned from a six-months' cruise in the south seas and has taken up his winter's residence in Washington...
...The Oklahoma Natural can not reduce its.rate here without reducing the rate all over the state...
...25 the people of this city determined that their municipal light and water plant should not...
...It should not be difficult, they say, for Wilson to carry the state in a year not featured by a I presidential election...
...He has recently been in conference with several members of the Progressive group in the senate, Including Sen...
...be sold to a private company...
...Throughout his administration as governor of Pennsylvania and since, Pinchot has been a severe critic of the administration's prohibition enforcement policies, and has particularly as-' sailed Secretary of the Treasury Mellon on this score...
...Friends of Wilson are particularly | optimistic over the prospects in the coming senatorial election...
...The Industrial price plus the 25 cents, which the Oklahoma Natural says is sufficient for distribution, will give a 35 cent rate in plnce of the 57 cent rate now being charged...
...Four different companies bid for the plant, the bids ranging from $300,000 to $450,000...
...The final result is said to have been the most crufhlng defeat to those favor, lug the sale that has ever been administered in any election in the city of Mil-lord...
...The women took especial interest...
...Wilson was a candidate against Wll- ! Ham S. Vare last year, but was denlfd a seat in the senate for excessive campaign expenditures...
...NEW JERSEY CITY TO KEEP UTILITY MILFORD, N. J.—By a vote of nearly 9 to 1 at a special election Nov...
...They point out the fact that Wilson carried all but three counties in Pennsylvania against Vare in 1928 when the state swept into the Republican column by the Hoover victory...
...There Is also some talk of the development of a hydro-elect rlc power project on the Grand river in competition with the private power companies of J&ls section...
...The business men and the big industrial plants all came out definitely and very positively against the sale...
...It could buy all the gas in the field probnbly at the yame figure at which it Is now being sold for industrial purposes outside the city limits, .which is 10 cents...
...Joseph Orundy, tariff lobbyist of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' association, was appointed by the governor of the state to the seat denied to Vare...
...It is believed that if Pinchot enters the senate race he will run as an insurgent and as a critic of the Hoover administration, and the Mellon-Varc organizations...
...Hoover since his return to the capital...
...The propsal to sell the plant met with the most vigorous and united opposition on the part of all classes and interests...
...This city is paying 57 cents for gas when the president of the Oklahoma Natural asserts that"25'cents is a fair distribution charge, and the city has unlimited gas supply almost within its own limits and oil nnd gas production upon one of its large parks...
...GRUNDY SEAT EYED BY TWO PROGRESSIVES Insurgent Republican and Democrat Mffc lioth Enter iRacc i* Pennsylvania (Special to The Progressive) WASHINGTON, D. C—Possible defeat for both the Vare and Mellon ma- ' chines in Pennsylvania in the senatorial elections this year \o> ips with the report that former fljpv...
...Wilson...
...Qlfford Pinchot, a Republican, anri^Ullsvm B. Wilson, a Democrat who ^prvetf .,fot eight years as secretary ok' labor to the cabinet of Pres...
...George W. Norris, of Nebraska, but has failed to call upon Pres...

Vol. 1 • January 1930 • No. 8


 
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