The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-10-17
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What has General BushueM done for
labor and the community? you ask.
Just this:
He has built up and maintained q
great industry which gives work at good
wages to more than q thousand men.
His workmen have bought and built
homes and added to the permanent
wealth and prosperity of the country.
Since 1857 General Bushnell's firm
has paid out in wages to labor the vast
sum of
Ten Million Dollars.
This 10 an enormous sum.
Ten million dollars is enough to give
every man, woman and child over 5
years of age in the state of Ohio $3
apiece. This sum represents something
Of General Bushnell's value to the com.
munity. In addition to the great dis
bursements of cash to wage earners
which his intelligence, integrity and
patriotism nave made possible, learn
by inquiry among his acquaintance in
Sprin yfeld that within the last 10 years
he has given away in private charity
more than $3.50, All of this he ha-
done unostentatiously, quietly and
gladly.
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On the 23d Of October next the Ohio
Masonic home at Springfield is to be
dedicated. To the building fund of this
institution General Bushnell contributed
$4,000, though at the time he was not
Mason. He wanted the home to be
well built, to be an ornament to Spring
field, and he had confidence in the Ma
sonic order. He has since become Ma
son, and he is one of the few men in
the country who has enjoyed the dis
Hnction of being made "Mason at
sight"
A man who is 80 useful, 80 generous
and so thoughtful as General Bushnell
is certainly worthy of the confidence Of
his fellow citizens and the respect of his
party, and no fair minded person can
fail to admit that such man is of vast
deal more value to the state and more
deserving Of elevation to high position
than one who has added nothing to the
prosperity and we'll being of the nation,
save the felieities Of glib utterance and
placid good nature.
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General Bushnell, since he was a very
young man, has been deeply interested
in politics. His interest was that of
good citizen engrossed in his own bust.
ness, who took time to 60 to conventions
and who with unfailing generosity con.
tributed to the campaign funds.
He watched and studied the current
of public and political life during his
leisure moments, until 1885, when he
stepped to the front as chairman Of the
Republican state executive committee
and won a splendid and important
victory, carrying the state by 1900 and
the legislature by a majority of two
votes on joint ballot. Notwithstanding
the fact that the Democrats had stolen
Hamilton county by system Of false
registration When General Bushnell
took the craftsmanship the Republican
party was discouraged and demoralized.
The Democrats were in power and fort
une seemed to be with them. But they
had not counted on the new power in
Ohio politics. The Democrats found to
their sorrow that their leaders were not
match for such man as Bushnell.
Murat Halstead was so delighted with
Mr.. Bushnell's generalship that he said
to me few days after the election,
"We have found great leader, and
General Bushnell should be made gov
ernor whenever he desires that office"
General Bushnell simply applied his
orderly and thorough methods Of bust.
ness to politics and the result was un.
qualified success. If he is elected gov
ernor he will bring to bear upon the
the affairs of the state the richest re-
suits of his long business career, and the
people Of Ohio will have an admins
ton of their affairs that will surprise
them by reason of its smoothness, its in.
tegrity and its surprising efficiency.
FRANCIS B. LOOMS.