The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-10-20
HIGHER CONCEPTION
OF HIS DUTIES

OF HIS DUTIES
an Reports ae now TO the effect that
National Committeeman Harry Gar
ber has 7'broRen with Governor Har-
4 mon and he now proposes TO spill
(. the milk before the time for the
next state election. put block in the
> road OF the governor and split the
Ohio delegation for him when the
{ time for the national convention ar
!, rives. The cause of all of this smoke
G in the CARRIER tepee Is that Governor
( Harmon has refused to put his admin
lstration on strictly spoils basis
81 Ever since Governor Harmon was
inaugurated there has been q demand
from certain quarters that he eject
every Republican official by force, ii
/ Suecessary. am fill his place with a
: Democ.I. This, Governor Harmon
Z has refused TO do. 1t is a difficult
\ thing to prefer charges against an
y official who is serving a term in Of
ice and is rendering fairly good SER
vice Even though there be percepti.
Bile flaws in the work OF the official,
II is moi the easiest thing to present
. charges which will not appear 20
the public 10 be based more upon
partisansnip than on a desire for
good service in public Office. Where
ever gross irregularities have been
found in the management of the
state departments and wherever au
officials term IN Office has expired,
Governor Harmon has given the place
10 man who is OF the same politi-
( cal faith as himself, but he has re-
FUSED to trump up charges against
any man just 10 make a place for a
Democrat. In this the governor will
have the support of the fair minded
and right thinking men in all parties,
thought 1t may cost him some sup
port in his own party. Governor Har-
mon conceives that II Is the duty OF
the governor TO first see that the
state is given a clean administration
and then 10 care for the Office seeker.
X 1t is true that Democrats have not
sharad IN the spoils OF victory 10
The extent they should, but it should
be rsmembered that Governor Har-
mon has been Handicapped in many
ways III the first year of his admin
istration First, he with State Treas
urer Creamer, was successful in the
last election. Not having the solid
backing in the state house to which
ne was entitled, the governor found it
very difficult to put into operation the
policy which he desired Then be-
fore he was inaugurated Governor
Harris with the assistance OF the Re-
publican senate tied the hands of the
incoming governor in every possible
way II was the intention TO force
the governor 10 retain all OF the Re-
publican officials for the two years in
the hope that the Republicans would
again be successful and could regain
control OF all OF the state depart
ments. Governor Harmon has had a
look into some Offices in the state
aud he has. wherever he found gross
irregularities, ousted the official and
hlled his place with a competent
Dcmocrat The govFnor has not
made wholesale clearing out OF
Republicans, as some of his old sup
porters have desired. but he has taken
the conseI vative course and made
changes where they were most needed.
All OF the Democrats who have be-
come dsgruntled because Governor
Harmon has net PLACED his admins
tration on a rankly partisan basis,
should remember that he is the gov
efnor and he had demonstrated pretty
conclusively that he does not propose
the delegate the job to any one OF
them. sA~ss