The Washington times., 1908-03-15
IQt4'S Cams Get Setback;
Makes Result UnceztaIn
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be so generous, they could afford TO
acquiesce. Brown was welcomed 20
the bench Of penitents. and taken in.
He delivered the State committee to
Taft. IL was a big gain.
Next the Taft organization got 10
needing George B, Cox-Cox the boss,
the unspeakable. the erstwhile victim
of Reformer Taft's vitriolic outpour-
ings; Cox, the impossible, the agent
of all the powers OF political darkness
Cox. the bette nOire of every Buckeye
uplifter: Cox. whose downfall had been
the ladder by which Taft had risen.
Cox was really needed.
Now. it happenAd that while Secre-
tary Taft was denOuncing Cox and get
ting solid with the better element"
Brother Charley Taft was keeping solid
with George. Brother Charley never
did take much stock IN the reforming
business. lie didn't approve OF the
original assault on Cox. IT looked 10
him as il Mr. Cox were rather a good
sort. as politicians go. He was sorry
VIII had done II.
oddly enough. 1t came about at this
time that Cox also needed the Tafute5.
He was arranging 20 break into power
again, following his temporary retire
ment. II would be easier II he could
convince the Tafts 70 be complaisant.
OF course. Secretary Taft couldn't
think IT such thing. 1t wouldn't DO 10
mention it TO him. Instead, Cox and
Brother Charley got together and
treated. Cox should come back; shepld
be for Brother VIII: Will should get
the delegation, and CoX-George, that
is-should return TO power.
So Il was that Cox came back TO
managerial relations in Cincinnati So
It was that in the convention Brother
Charley nominated Cox-that Is, George
to be chairman Of the Hamilton
county delegation to the state conyen-
ton. George was elected.
Brother Charley Wins.
And so it came about that at the
State convention George helped make
Brother Charley a delegate at large,
and head of the delegation TO the ma
tionaI convention.
But that was all a little matter be-
tween Brother Charley and George. /
Secretary Taft. running for President
on a platform OF reform, had nothing
TO do with IT,
It was hard for the neophytes 60 IN
derstand all these quick changes. of
course. Many OF them knew little OF
real politics. They didn't seem able 10
understand how Brown and Cox and
the rest of the bosses could have been
so unspeaksble In 1915 and 1906. and be
come so estimabie in 1907 and 1898. At
times It required the faith which tugs
at mountains to believe il was all reg
uIar. But the reformers stuck by
The 1865 convention drew nigh. Brown. |
Cox, and Walter D. Guilbert, deputy |
State. auditor and a very smooth person
politically, had been taken into the fold |
All the bosses. big and little--except, Of |
course. the Senators-had been vel !
coined back into camp. The convention |
was to be glorious love feast.
The convention met. The platform
adopted was fine No true refUmer I
could cavil at Il. Governor Harris was /
renomtnated. Good again. Iiefcrmers |
all pleased.
But then came the rest of the ticket !
1t Is necessary right here 10 explain |
that in Ohio the secretary, auditor, al |
tOTuey general, and treasurer OF state /
constitute about all the boards and COM /
missions which have 10 do with the ad- /
ministration of the laws. Who controls !
these men, controls taxation, assess |
ment, corporation administration. rail- |
road egulation-everything. They arc |
the real administration.
1t is needless 10 discuss in detail the /
skilled ana expert political gentlemen |
who were nominated for these positions. !
Suffice it 10 say that Walter Brown was /
credited with debating one OF them
Guilbert himself got the State auditor |
ship, and the combination If Brown, /
Guilbert, and Cox got a third.
And when the convention adjourned /
il was so mad with the way it had been 4
hoodwinked by the reformed bosses that /
II couldn't even swear. II just laughed /
Brown Forces Nomination.
Walter brown. boss of Toledo ana /
chief sponsor TO- the allied public SER /
vice corporations of the State, had
forced the nomination OF Ulysses Grant /
lie service corporations we've ticBIed /
half 70 death.
Guilbert, deputy State auditor. boss /
OF the powerful State Auditors Assoc .
citation, and one of the long recognized |
political agents of the interests. had /
Edward II. FullinEton nominated for /
Office which ia Ohio is more I
and potent than almost eng
other The corporation and special in |
rerests were pleased beyond measure.
And, finally. the bosses had among
them nominated for treasurer Of State
Charles e. Green. deputy treasurer.
whose conduct of his office as such Is
now under investigation, in connection
With allegations that State moneys have
been deposited in banks where theyI
earned profits for people who ought not
to earn profits on State moneys.
after they had contemplated the ticket
for little while the reformers began
to wonder where they got of. They
mad secured a Taft delegation and q
fine Platform of national issue The
old bosses had got the ticket
II sort Of didn't look good The To-
edo Blade. probably the most influential
daily paper in the State with the coun-
try press. mumbled It over for while
and finally bolted.
1t wouldn't support Denman, or Full
.ngton, or Green. II proclaimed the