The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1909-02-18
CAPITAL CITY NEWS

Columbus Feb. 15-There appears
| TO be but one way to explain the Ohio
League of Defunct Republican Clubs,
which threatens to hold an annual
session in Cincinnati on February %.
The same explanation was made by
a Ttpperary man regarding head
less turtle: "The id thing is dead,
but 1t hasn't got sense enough to
know it." These annual gatherings
resemble, for all the world, a last
survivors, dinner, where a solitary
man sits at a table spread for an
original club membership of Is and
drinks to the departed.
Why it should meet is something
that no fellow can find out 1t has
no political influence; that departed
10 years since. Like the jackass that
boasted no ancestral pridel It has no
hope of posterity. One dose of a state
league of clubs butting in on business
was enough for the real politicians.
1t afflicted the Republican party about
the same time that the Sons Of Vet
Grams got busy under the leadership
of the late Colonel w. e. Bundy.
Senator Joseph Benson Foraker laid
predatory hands on the organization,
and it died in his loving arms at the
Neil House in this city, whispering
that it was for him for President of
the United States of America. This
ghost of a league is clearly playing
hockey from the political graveyard.
Like a decent dead thing, it should
remain in its nice, comfortable tomb
and quit bothering the members of
the press, who are the only living
souls that pay the slightest heed to
its spectral walkings. Under strong
protest an solely for the information
of readers it is announced that the
materializing seance will take place |
at the ball Of the stamina League. of |
Cincinnati, itself more or less CT a
joke, on the morning of the 22d. |
1t is almost certain that four people |
will be there-Guido Cores, Harley V. |
Speelman, Buzz" Stephens and the |
fellow from Preble County who al |
ways shows up "to protect Senator |
Foraker's interests
Attorney General Denman in an
opinion to the auditor of state. holds |
that national guard officers who re-
ceive public funds are public officers
and as such come within the scope
of the law authorizing the accounting
bureau to examine and inspect ac-
counts Of public officials.
The opinion also states that it is
the duty of the auditor to examine the
accounts Of these officers. Auditor
Fullington has favored the inclusion
of national guard officers among those
subject to examination but as there
had never been a ruling as to the
status of these officers, he referred
the question of whether he had this
TO the attorney general
and now that it has been held that
he has, will take steps to have the I
Of all these officers examin-
ed.
In another opinion, Prosecuting At
.orney Peter j. Blosser of Ross coun-
", is advised that delinquent tax
,ollector employed by the county
commissioners to aid in the recovery
)f omitted taxse is not entitled to any
for the reason that the
aw under which tax inquisitors are
Employed has been declared uncon-
'titutional by the supreme court.
The collector helped in the recovery
4 $500 back taxes and then put in a
ill for twenty per cent, as fees. He
'ets nothing for his labor.
Prosecuting Attorney r. H. Patchin
u Geauga county, wanted TO know if
10 was compelled by law to prosecute
IT defend cases in which the township
cards of education and the county
are interested, and If
o, was he entitled to extra compen-
alton.
He also wanted to know II II is a
art Of his duty to prosecute proceed
ngs In lunacy cases In the probate
ourt. He will be notified that II Is /;
is duty to serve as legal representa-
I've Of the school boards and the com
1issioners, but that IL Is not a part of
is duty to take part in the lunacy ,
asee.
Prosecuting Attorney Scott stahI Of :
'ttawa county, Is advised that II is !
is duty to bring suit TO recover fees
aken illegally by township oficials I
S disclosed by examinations BY the I
ate accounting bureau. il