The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-03-14

play, coupled with an honest desire
to see the very best for the state OF
Ohio and all of It's people, it has
spewed out of its mouth at least some
of the candidates who were named by
the convention. From the pen of the
Blades special correspondent in Co
lumbus, l.. j. Beecher, 1t prints the
following in Wednesday, issue and
for clean insight into the affairs OF
Republican politics In Ohio, 1t couldn't
be excelled.
"lf the Republican ticket that was
Nominated at the Memorial hall con-
ISention last week is elected in No
vember, Walter r. Brown, of Toledo
land W. ID. Guilbert, auditor of state
Will assume control of the most thor
ioughly assembled, delicately adjusted
and perfectly oiled political machine
ever built in Ohio.
True, Congressman Theodore T..
Burton received plaudits that were
really grand ovation, and Francis
! W. Treadway, of Cleveland, the Bur-
ton candidate for lieutenant governor,
was nominated over an alleged slate
candidate of the Brown Cox Guilbert
5ination.
But, as one delegate said, the Of
flee of lieutenant governor is about
as full of good things as a Hallow-
cen pumpkin, while the real juicy
Iplums, the patronage and influential
positions-much more powerfully in
.fluential than can well be imagined
without careful analysis of the situa-
.tion-were distributed among candi-
dates backed by State Chairman
Walter +, Brown, of Toledo: State
Auditor Walter d. Guilbert, of Noble
county; State Treasurer w. S. Nc
Kinnon, OF Ashtabula, and George b. ..
Cox, of Cincinnati.
THE salary OF the Lieutenant gov
ernor is $1,000 a year. He presides
over the senate, but has no vote, ex-
cept In case OF tie on subsidiary uues-
tions. He makes no appointments.
Ordinarily his political influence Is
inconsequentlal, compared with that
of the auditor, treasurer and secretary
.ot state and attorney general, who
appoint a small army of deputies and
job holders; who have absolute con-
troll of the depositing of millions of
dollars Of the state surplus funds; who
nave charge OF the election machin-
cry in every county of the state: who
appoint the boards of review in the
seventy cities having 5000 or more
population; who constitute the state
boards that assess and remit taxes of
.all the public service corporations in
Ohio, and the ramillcations of whose
Influence are numberless and myster-
ious.
The nomination of U. G. Denman,
of Toledo, for attorney general, was
demanded by Walter f. Brown, of
Toledo.
THE attorney general is the legal
adviser of all the executive depart
ments of the. state. BY virtue of his
office he IS also a member of the
state board of assessors and apprais-
ers, This board meets annually in
June 10 assess the property of ex-
press, telegraph and telephone. freight
line, electric, gas heating and cool
ing, messenger and signal, natural
gas, pipe line, railroad, sleeping car,
street, suburban and interurban cleo
trio, union depot, water transporta-
tion and water works companies that
pay excise taxes into the state treas
ury.
"The other members of the ap-
praising boards are the auditor of
state and the treasurer OF state.
"rhe corporations the board
assesses are capitalized at hundreds
of millions of dollars and pay mil
lions in taxes. 1t is obvious that the
membership on this board is an i'm
portant and influential position.
But that Is not all The salary of
the attorney general Is $6,5OO a year.
He appoints a first assistant at SO 900;
a second assistant at $500; a chief
clerk, at 1900; messenger, 5000;
two stenographers. $2,4OO. For this
year there has been appropriated
$33 900 for special counsel also to
be appointed by the attorney general.
Two lawyers, known as special coun-
sci, are constantly employed in the
Columbus office, and others are re-
tained in the different cities and
counties as there appears to be de-
mand for their services. The total
annual amount paid to the attorney
general and the assistants employed
by him is the comfortable sum of
$40 500.
"In addition to his distribution of
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