The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-10-15
MORE pHETENsE sy GOV. HARRIS.

MORE PHETENSE BY GOV, HARRIS.
Through the separation of state and
local elections the terms of a member
of state and county officials we're ex-
tended one year so that hereafter bi-
ennial elections may be held for the
election of state and county officials
in even numbered years, and munich
pal and township officials in odd-num-
bered years.
Gov. Harris has had the benefit of
this additional year at $4,000 addition
al salary, the salary of the governor
having been increased from $4,000 to
$4,000, per year, by act of the legis-
lature in 1906.
Gov. Pattison lived long enough to
appoint three democrats to important
state offices. These were ]. T. John
son, for state printer; S. d. Creamer
for state fire marshal; w. l.. Finley,
for state Oil inspector, and these ap-
pointees of Gov. Pattison for the
first time in the states history saved
to the state between $4,000 and $780,
900 by the economic administration
of their offices during the year 1907,
the only full year in which they were
in entire charge Of their respective
offices.
But Johnson, Creamer and Finley
were not accorded the extension of one
year to which they were as much en-
titled as the acting governor, Harris,
is to the additional year he is serv-
ing at increased pay.
Now Gov Harris is trying to square
| himself with those who voted for Gov.
| Pattison by the assertion that Gov.
Pattisons appointees served out their
terms of Office" when the face is
that they were not accorded the ad-
ditional year to which they were en-
titled but were supplanted at the end
of two years and their offices turned
over to henchmen of the same poll
tical machine which not only con-
/ trolled the last state republican con-
vention but also governs the governor.
! The Pattison employees would not
have been permitted to hold their po-
sitions two years if Gov. Harris could
have had his way. 1t is a fact he
cannot deny that shortly after the
death of Gov. Pattison a secret con-
ference of Gov. Harris and some of the
political bosses was held in one of the
prominent hotels of Columbus, to de-
wise means for getting rid of the Pat
tison appointees.
Gov. Harris was willing to do the
bidding of the bosses. and would have
done so had it not been for the fact
that the state senate was so evenly
divided that the scheme could not be
carried through.
This is how Gov. Harris. who was
elected a wet" lieutenant governor,
who opposed the election of Gov. Pat
tison, who ran away from Gov. Han
ly CR) of Indiana and Gov. Folk CD
of Missouri when they spoke at Co
lumbus last year in behalf of a tenn
perance candidate for mayor, and who
publicly boasted in a political speech
at Columbus that he never voted for
democrat in his life for national,
state or county Office, respected the
wishes of those who voted for reform
through Gov. Pattison. The offices
Gov. Pattison reformed Gov, Harris
has turned back into the hands of the
Cox-Guilbert-Brown machine, and he
asks those who voted for Pattison to
vote for him.
All that was gained to the people of
Ohio by the election of Pattison has
been lost through the alliance of Har-
ris with those celebrated Temperance
reformers," Cox, Guilbert and Brown.
If the people of Ohio want to recov-
er lost ground and clean out the state
house they can do so only by electing
Judson Harmon for governor and the
candidates whose names appear on the
ticket with Judge Harmon.