The National tribune., 1905-10-26
THE OHIO CAMPAIGN.
In Default Of Real Issues is TRADE Falsehood and Mean
Candidate PatsOns Vicious RecodA
representation Of Boss Cox-ypocrtical Admiration for
Roosevelt.

| tent and set about to accomplish its
| defeat. He called in State Insurance
Commissioner Vorys and learned from
| him the extent OF the change which the
which 1t would mean to the tax pay
ers OF Ohio. He then called I'm his
friends and political allies I'm the lower
House and for few days there was a
| battle royal between Gov. Herrick and
the hired lobbyist OF the insurance COM
bine directed by John NJ. Pattison.
Gov Herrick won. The measure was
| pigeonholed in committee and never
again saw light Of day.
The insurance lobby. Of which Mr.
| Pattison was a member, also opposed
the passage Of the fraternal insurance
law, statute which is generally ad-
mftted to be the greatest work of the
kind on the books Of any State. 1t was
| conceived at national meeting of the
State Insurance Commissioners and
was drafted by a committee OF that
body OF which A. /. Vorys, Ohio's In
surance Commissioner. was Chairman.
1t is the model after which 1t IS de-
sired to frame the fraternal insurance
laws of all the States The measure Is
just: 1t Is effective: IL is fair; but the
| old-line people and their lobbyists op-
posed the measure because it promoted
and rendered safer fraternal insurance.
Mr.. Pattison has at frequent intervals
in the past sought to cause the enact
ment or laws designed to value fra
ternal insurance policies and to place
a tax upon the premium incomes OF
these fraternities. He has never sue
ceeded because of the injustice Of the
proposition. This fact. however, has
raised the fraternal insurance men of
/ Ohio to a sense of realization OF the
| dangers attended upon having an Old
| Line Life Insurance President for Gov.
| ernor.
Lobbying I'm Wisconsin,.
Recent developments i'm Wisconsin
| show that Mr.. Pattison has also had
a share along with the New York COM
panies In hiring legal experts" other.
wise lobbyists, to look after the inter-
ests Of the insurance combine. A dis
patch from Madison, Wis, today says:
| II William A. Frick, of New York,
really represented the Mutual Life In
surance Company at the last session
of the Wisconsin Legislature, as is in
| timated from the testimony of Presi-
dent McCurdy, who says the Mutual
paid Prick $4,000 for his services, it IL
thought that Frick has violated the
Wisconsin anti-lobby law. This new
law requires all lobbyists to register
| themselves, with the concern they rep
resent. and give the amount expended.
by items, in a report to the State au-
| thorities.
tricks only report says that he
represented the Union Central Life. In
surance Company of Cincinnati, and ex-
pended $1.569." Wednesdays report
Of the proceedings of the New York
investigation included the following:
Mr.. Hughes then showed to Nc
Curdy voucher for the payment OF
| $1,000 to William A. Prick, formerly
| Insurance Commissioner of Wisconsin,
and letter from Charlton T. Lewis, an
attorney of Madison, Wis The letter
stated that Mr.. Frick would accept q
retainer to see that the interests of the
Mutual Life should come to no harm
in that State. Mr.. McCurdy approved
the voucher, but could not remember
the details"
The Question OF Bosses.
| The sincerity of Candidate Pattison
| in what he has characterized as cam
paign against "bossism' in politics is
1 being seriously questioned. While it
is admitted by the Republican leaders
that George B. Cox is the political boss
of Cincinnati, on the other hand it is
admitted by the Democratic State lead
erS that a powerful machine based on
public patronage, has been created and
fostered in Cleveland by Mayor Tom L.
Johnson.
Thus far in the campaign Mr.. Patti
son had confined his denunciation of
machine politics" and ''bossism" to an
attack on George b. Cox of Cincinnati,
but has carefully refrained from MAX
| ing a similar attack on machine poll
/ ties and "bossism' as practiced by
Mayor Johnson, Charles p. Salem and
James p. Madigan in Cleveland. Mad
igan, incidentally, is the Secretary of
the Democratic State Committee, and
as such is directly connected with the
management of Candidate Pattison's
campaign. And yet Madigan is the
Treasurer and one of the organizers of
the Tammany machine in Cleveland.
Folk of Missouri attacked machine
politics. and "bossism" in his own
party as vigorously as he did in the
Republican Party. LaFollette Of Wis
consin did the same. Pattisons fail
ure to do this in Ohio has raised the
question of his sincerity. His failure
to specify wherein Gov. Herrick or the
Republican Party of Ohio has shown
subserviency to Cox has been character
lied as the fatal flaw" in his cam
paign.
Cox Not a Boss.
| In connection with the issue of "Cox-
ism" as applied to the gubernatorial
campaign, Republican State history and
official records for the past four or five
years produce some interesting facts.
In 1900 George B. Cox was elected
a member Of the Republican National
Committee from Ohio. He was forced
from this position by the Republican
leaders of the State and Myron T. Her.
rick was appointed in his stead. From
| that time Cox has never been friendly
with Mr.. Herrick.
| III 1JUl SdlOwe11, Oh Gill;
| cinnati, was candidate for renomina-
| ton for second term at the hands of
| the Republican State Convention.
George B. Cox demanded Caldwelrs
nomination. The State Convention
| turned a deaf ear to his pleadings and
Nominated Carl Nippert.
When the General Assembly organ
lied in January, 1902, George B. Cox
used every influence at his command
for the election Of Representative Price,
of Athens, as Speaker, but by an over
whelming majority w. S. McKinnan,
| of Ashtabula, who has always been re-
garded as a strong anti-Cox Republic
can, was elected Speaker.
In 1902, when the Republican State
Convention was held in Cleveland, Cox
demanded the denomination of Dairy
and Food Commissioner Joseph Black
burn. By an overwhelming majority
| the State Convention nominated the
antioch candidate, Horace Ankenny
who is now Dairy and Food Commits
sioner.
In 1904, Immediately after the death
of Senator Hanna, George Il. Cox sum-