The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1906-06-28
After Forty Years.

rass Governor Pattison at the Ohio
Penitentiary. A plot of the pres
ent officeholders there was formed
to prevent by an overstrained lega
technicality the introduction of 9
new penitentiary board manager
appointed by Mr.. Pattison accord
ing to his duties as Governor
Ultimately, the holding of the Of
fees at the penitentiary was the
stake for which the conspiratori
played. At the head of the plot
was Orin B. Gould, the peniten'
tiary warden, and chairman of the
republican State Central Commit.
tee, assisted by a renegade whisky
Herrick Democrat named Burton,
who used to edit the whisky orgSn
of Cincinnati, The Southwest,
The decent Republicans of the
state jumped upon the scheme with
both feet and scared the plotters
out.
\ Just now comes renewal of the
same general scheme of embarrass-
ing-this time over at the State
House. Mark Slater, Herrick' g
state printer, at this present writ
ing is resisting the perfectly law
full and proper entrance of j. w.
| johnson, Governor Pattison's APP
pointee, to the place. The osten-
sible grounds are about the same
as those alleged down at the Peni-
Tertiary. Slater is another men,
ber of the Republican State Com
mittee, from the Dayton district,
the committee over which Warden
Gould presides as chairman. Re-
spectacle Republicans are hanging
their heads at this shameful per-
formance of a second member of
the Republican State Central Com
mittee. Republican newspaper
organs are conveniently omitting
all mention of tile connection of
Gould and Slater with the party.
1t is not thing to be advantage
ously published. But the facts
are there all the same. And there
is no doubt whatever but that
these two fellows have backing in
a lot of other Republican office
holders.
All of which may serve to show
the respectable Republicans of
Ohio what kind of men the party
management has installed in the
offices. The lack of even common
decency in these parasites is seen
in their frantic efforts to hold on
to the places from which the voters
Of the state declared to oust them
when they elected Mr.. Pattison.
Some time ago, in reading some
of Walt Whitman's writings, we
came across his description of the
causes that led to the civil war,
and particularly of the kind of
Democrats that filled all the places
IF power and managed the party
then. All the better
element of the Democratic party
lad been forced to the rear.
twenty-five years of uninterrupt-
I'd power had brought horde of
mere olliceholders into control of
he conventions and policy of the
party. Whitman's description of
he situation which led to the war
S as follows
"Of course many and very con-
radictory things, specialties,
developments, constitutional views,
tc., went to make up the origin
If the w1r-but the most signifi
ant general fact can be best in
licated and stated as follows
Cor twenty-five years previols to
he outbreak, the controlling
Democratic" nominating conven-
ions of our Republic-starting ,
rom their primaries in wards or
Iistricts, and SO expanding to
ounties, powerful cities, States,
nd to the great Presidential nom
mating conventions for a long
ime before, and inclusive of, that !
which nominated Buch anan.
Remember they had come to be
he fountains and tissues of the q
american body polite, forming,
S it were, the whole blood, legis. /
ltlon, ofiice-holding, etc., One
I these conventions, from 1910 to
80, exhibited spectacle such as
ould never be seen except in our q
wn age and in these States. The I
lembers who composed it were, i
even-cighths of them, the mean :
81 kind of bawling and blowing .
ofilce-seekers, Dimps. 7