The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-06-16
STILL CAMPING
ON THEIR TRAIL

| ON THElK TRAlL
Some of the Republican papers
of Ohio and notably among them
the Toledo Blade, are not going to
allow the people OF the state to
forget that there are three men,
Cox, Brown and Gullbert, who have
been running things in this state
fer some years and that they had
their fingers in the pie during the
last state convention. The Blade in
an editorial points out very clearly
the one and only way by which the
people can get even with these
three bosses for the loose ended
manner In which they have been
conducting the BUSINESS OF the state
land for the high handed manner in
which they have been dominating
Republican principles and Republic
can office holders.
The Blade says:
"As soon as the Chicago conven-
tion is over the world will be sent
out by the Cox xBrown-Guilbert
machine that REPUBLICANS should
vote the state ticket straight for
fear OF injur-ng the presidential
!, ticket and hurting the chances of
Governor Harris
LAS the campaign progresses this
ltiemand will become more insistent.
Republican voters will be told that
the scratching of the state ticket
will be llttle less than crime
and that the thing TO do is to
'place the cross mark under the
eagle and let 'er go at that"
Cox, Brown and Guilbert care
much less about the election OF Taft
and Harris than they do about the
| election Of their henchmen-Green,
, for treasurer, Fmllington for audi
tor and Denman for attorney gem
eral. But these political bosses, sell
fish to degree. will, II they can,
lfool the voters into the belief that
/ their greatest concern is about the
election of Taft and Harris.
"The legislative Investigations OF
last winter showed how greatly the
treasurer and auditor profited by
the manner in which they conduct
ed their Offices. Deputies of these
officials were nominated to succeed
..McKinnon and Guilbert. Cox in
sisted on Green; Brown wanted
Denman and Guilbert pulled every
possible wire for Fullington. So
far as the nomination of these men
was concerned the ticket is machine
made and boss-dictated.
FOR years the cunning hand of
iGuilbert has been busy in planning
this comp. The auditor, treasurer
and attorney general, through legis-
latiye enactments, lobbied by Gudl-
bert, were put In absolute control
OF more than dozen OF the most
Important state boards having to do
with special taxes OF big corpora
lions and other matters of equal
importance.
"This year conditions seemed ripe
for a killing and Cox, Brown and
Guilbert got busy. They became en-,
thusiastic Taft boomers, took Vorys
under their wing, planned marty
primaries which were farce stole
the livery of Taft and Harris and
captured that which was their aim
from the beginning, the nominations
for auditor. treasurer and attorney
general.
"And now they will use the
names OF Taft and Harris to whip
the voters into line for the whole
ticket
"But they will not succeed. Ohio
Republicans are against bosses and
bossism. They know how TO vote
scratched tickets. They demonstrate
ed this In 1905 when Pattison car
ried the state by more than 1000
plurality and Harris was elected
lieutenant governor by practically
the same plurality.
Republicans OF Ohio understand
that Cox, Brown and Guilbert are
the greatest menace to the success
of the party and we do not believe