The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1908-10-01

| this? A half truth, like the fore
going, with its intentionally false i'm
| plications, is infinitely more despicable
and cowardly than an open lie. With.
out desiring TO attack anybody, 1t
may be pertinent to say that the thir.
teen hundred thousand dollars left
by the above named Democratic gov
ernor was all expended by his Re.
publican successor In little more
than two years; that the treasury be.
came empty and that 100000 had 20
be issued, in certificates of indebted
mess, to avert the humiliating spec.
tacle of a bankrupt state. So much
for ancient politics, here adverted to
not for personal reasons, but to pro-
| tect the reputation of the most eco
nomical state administration in 80
| years and to maintain historical
| truth.
The governor proudly boasts that
| there is now lying in the state treas.
| ury sum exceeding $4,000 900.
Doubtless a surplus is better than a
| deficit, but why 50 large surplus?
| Does anyone pretend that 1t Is true
| financial craftsmanship to wiring
| from the taxpayers of the state enor.
nous sums not necessary to main
| tain the government? Can it be pos
sible that all this useless taxation
| has been resorted to in order that
the money might be lent to pet banks
in return for financial and political
favors? Yes: such is the shameful
truth; this great burden has been de-
! liberately placed upon the people
solely for the reprehensible purpose
of building a political machine which
should overawe Republican state con.
ventions and put money in the pock-
cts OF certain state officials The
people of Ohio know this. and the
overwhelming rebuke which they VIII
administer in November will not
soon be forgotten.
The governor, in his abundant good
nature. has given certificate of
character to his associates in the
statehouse thus lending the benefit
of his integrity to the cause of his
weaker brethren. 1t is not necessary
for Democrats to attack any of those
gentlemen. Some of them lave been
so virulently assailed by the Toledo
Blade Cleveland Leader. Sandusky
Register. Gallia Times, Medina Ga
zette. McConnellsville Herald, Monroe
Gazette. Middletown Journal Mans
field News, Paulding Republican, Port
Clinton Republican and other leading
Republican papers, that it has become
question of veracity between RepuD.
licans. Let them fight it out amongst
themselves. Perhaps joint debate
between the governor on one hand
and this group of Republican editors
on the other, might enable the peo
pie of the state to ascertain what sort
of men the Republican party has kept
in the state house-especially in the
state treasury.
The following quotation from the
governors speech. VIZ: Il know that
the last Republican state convention
was not bcssed convention, quite
he opposite was the true character
ither be blind2d by partisanship or
Of that body" must have been ut
tered in sarcastic vein, for SO many
Republican papers have attacked that
history with less reputation for hon
esty thal an ordinary game of three
ctrd monte. There Is room here only
for extracts from three of these Re-
publican organs
The Toledo Blade said: THE citi-
zen who does not know that clique
of politicians composed OF Walter
brown. Walter Guilbert and George
Cox, aided by lieutenants, had a slate
at last weeks state convention and
succeeded in bagging the game, must
is an amateur in politics."
The Monroe Gazette said that: "The
convention was manipulated by the
greatest bunch of political criminals
that ever held sway in Ohio"
The Sandusky Register sad: THE
Columbus convention was exclusively
a Taft gathering. The Taft men boast
ed that not single Foraker man
could be found in the conventions:
that they were all Taft men, selected
under call so worded that 1t was
well nigh impossible to elect anybody
delegate who had not first been o.
KID by Arthur vorys. The Taft men
were in absolute control. Its officials
were all Taft men. The several coun-
ty bosses who controlled the county
delegations were all Taft men. Every
candidate nominated was understood
to be the choice OF the Taft gang"
The governor also gave an eXuber.
ant testimonial to the Republican can
didate for vice president-known on
the floor of congress for the last 20 |
years as "the agent of predatory |
wealth." and to whom his associates |
familiarly refer by the expressive
sobriquet OF Dollar jim" He it was |!
who prevailed upon Dear Hartman"
to raise that s240,000 of election brib-
cry funds in 1904, which, at the time. !
was openly charged by Alton b. Par
ker and strenuously denied by Theo- |
dore Roosevelt, although he was its |
beneficiary with full knowledge of the |
fact. 1t seems incredible that anyone |
could be ignorant of the fact that Mr.. |
Sherman is as complete creature of |
the trusts as are all of the eminent |
gentlemen connected with the nation
al Republican campaign. such as
Treasurer Sheldon, Senate- penrose Z,
and Defendant" Dupont
Both Ohio senators having peen ig- !
nored at Youngstown, II became ne.
cessary TO import a senator from In