The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-09-03
uovERNoR NO DRINKER
Charge That He Took Intoxicsnts Is
Denied.

Denied.
The Democratic policy this year 10
to hide the double dealing OF that
party In clouds of falsehood about
Republican candidates. Exparte state
ments of the legislative probes are
used against some state officers, even
after II had been shown that there
was nothing to probe. In such offices
as even the undertaking could find
nothing on which to base a campaign
lie, II was charged that such officials
created unauthorized deficiencies. 1t
was promptly shown that the items In
the unauthorized deficiency bill were
really claims and fixed charges. But
that made no difference in the circu
lation movement of the present Demo
cratic machinery.
The ready-made articles Of false
hood would not At the judiciary, the
governor and lieutenant governor, so
the Republican candidates for those
Offices are made TO appear in custom
made clothes "out of whole cloth"
They are in fact credited with moth
ing and blamed for everything. The
decisions of Judges Shauek and Price,
in which corporations won, are pub
lishel, and those against corporations
are omitted. Such decisions as
chanced to be against certain classes
or individuals are listed and all tor
them overlooked.
When 1t comes to Governor Harris,
H.. t. 20 thA In fhn
larger cities as fanatical Prohibi-
ZIONIST, and to the readers elsewhere
as a man who drinks. The publicity
bureau Of the Personal Liberty league
in Cincinnati, which is supported by
the Liquor league and the brewers,
and which is an annex of the Demo
cratic state committee, spread broad
cast recently an illustrated article OF
Governor Harris drinking at a ban
quet OF the Stamina league. when he
did not drink drop on that occasion
or on any other. The following week
the same bureau circulated In the
saloons, barber shops and other places
in the larger cities a cartoon repre-
senting the governor as the Dummy
Of the Anti-saloon league" In the lap
Of Wayne B. Wheeler. This cartoon
blasphemed religion by having bur
lesque pictures of two preachers rep
resenting Sunday observance" and
the Evangelical Alliance" And an
other cartoon on the same page pre-
his shirt sleeves with rake in hand
and the old "single-cross" suspenders.
Although the governor simply ap-
proved Of what the legislature did, he
Is blamed for all that was done and
credited with nothing. And 1t should
be remembered that the legislature
during the past three years was a
half and half" mixture. The senate
was Democratic and the house Repub-
lican. II was more than half Demo
cratic so far as Governor Harris was
concerned. The senate which con-
firmed his appointments was Demo
cratic. Had the house been Demo
cratic and the senate Republican,
Governor Harris would have had a
better chance.
Remember that Governor Harris as
Republican governor has been han.
dicapped by Democratic senate, and
even with such handicap as that has
never as yet been driven to drink!
Governor Harris has for over two
years been constantly on duty re-
gardless of his own affairs, and even
Of his health. He was not only at
his Office by day, but also at nights,
and has looked HSter every depart
ment and all state institutions. He is
as conscientious as a man can be in
every detail Of duty and yet he is
charged by the Democratic organiza-
uons, supported by Liquor leagues, as
being 4 hypocrite and one worthy
only Of contempt. He showed his
metal early in life. enlisting as a pri-
vate soldier the day after Lincoln's
first call, and passing through every
rank until he was mustered out as a
brigadier general. He was badly
wounded In the ranks at Mcdowell,
Va, and again at Gettysburg, while
commanding q brigade. and yet he
came out all right.