Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1914 — LISTEN TO MR. MURPHY. [ARTICLE]

LISTEN TO MR. MURPHY.

Has Carried Business Around With Him—lt’s the Life, It’s the Life. Indianapolis, Oct. 2s.— Charles J. Murphy, democratic chairman of the Tenth congressional district, and a member of the public service commission. Monday, announced that he bad been considering the Vincennes water rate case, one of the more important cases before the commission, while he had been engaged in political duties that took him away from the city much of the last two months, Mr. Murphy said that some persons in his district, who did not know the exact status of the work now being done by the public service commission, bad criticised the district chairman for his alleged political activities at the expense of the conimssion’s time. He said that to these . critics >he desired to say that his time since e campaign began had been given to the work of the commission in as great ratio as reasonably can be expected of a state officer.

He said that both he and Chairman Thomas Duncan, who has been touring the state in the interests of the democratic party for weeks, have been working at nights on the commission cases and have been devoting their. Sundays to the commission work. He said that since the cdmpiission was appointed business has piled up on its shoulders so quickly that every member of the body has averaged as much as sixteen hours a day in the work since he was appointed; ■ • He said that since the campaign started he has been unusually careful to give more than an ordinary day’s work to commission business each day. He said he has carried the evicase with him wherever he has traveling on political business and that Chairman Duncan also has carried commission business with him to work on at odd times when he was campaigning. Mr. Murphy also sat to hear evidence in the Gary lighting ease two days last week.