The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-16

than during any preceding TWO year
period, and Mr.. Dreamer turned in
to the state treasury over $i1 900
balance above expenses from the
receipts of the office SO that there
is Democratic precedent for the sal
airy basis fixed by the new fire
marshal as well as economy in the
conduct of that department.
why are those rabld Republican
editors who accuse the governor of
partisanship so silent about these
details? IL must be because they
feel that they dare not tell their
readers the whole truth, Governor
Narmon has called their bluff."
Scarcely less astonishing than the
disclosures relating to the f1re mar
shals office is the discovery that as
legacy from Republican control
of the state penitentiary there is due
the state over $51, 500 on old and ex-
pired contracts.
Am extraordinary feature or this
discovery is that in number of in
stances the records of the peniten-
tiary contain no report or money
paid and now said to be due on va
rious contracts.
1T is easy for the attorney gen
erel to unload responsibility by say
ing "these all date back prior 10 my
coming into office" BY so doing he
also absolues the present state
and ministration from respon-
sibility, for Governor Harmon ana
the present attorney general came
| into office at the same time.
/, But why were not these old ac-
counts collected before? In the man
agement of one institution the sum
of $51 900 is quite an item.
The attorney generaI says he will
see whether there really Is anything
due the state, that he will investigate
have taken, and that IL he finds the
contractors do owe something ht
will take the necessary legal pro.
ceedings to collect either from the
parties direct or from their bonds
men.
The people of Ohio probably never
would have heard of this large
amount due the state except for thu
change of administration.
with this revelation, discoveries
in the fire marshals office, thu
necessity for change of manage
ment at the Athens hospital ant
the Industrial school for girls, 1
comes in bad grace for Republican
papers to say that Governor Har
mon talked about graft and cor
ruption' during the campaign las
fall and had been unable TO max
good since mis- inauguration.
, There are Republican editors VIII
are SO biased that they never Sc
! anything to criticise in the conduc
OF Republican Official, no matte
i how bal 1t may be; and never Sc
= anything TO commend in the conduc
of o Democratic official, no matte
: how good 1t may be. They are at
/ ways ready TO defend Republica
r Official, no matter what he may d
y that Is wrong. and ever ready to dc
$ nounce a Democratic official II
matter what he may do that Is righ
Such editors are not fooling any
, body except their partisan reader
s who want to he fooled by hootin
S partisanship and "lust for office" 9
e everything the governor does.
e Governor Harmon's administra'
e tion is scarcely six months old, an
s in that short time he has demon
: strated that he is conducting stat
II affairs on strictly business prime
i Piles. The people have greater col
fidence in him than ever before, an
/. all over the state of Ohio you ca
e hear them say well make 1t Ha1
n mon and a clean sweep next year.