The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-02-07
COX OUT WITH
A BIG STICK
For the Man Who Started
The One Per Cent Idea
Coxies' Army Will Have
a Rotten Time of it, if
It Passes.
BY United Press Wire.


COLUMBUS o., Feb. IA protest
mas been made by August Hermann
one OF Boss Cox's lieutenants i'm Gin
cinnati, against the / per cent maxi
mum tax rate bill, which If passed will
sound the DOOM of extravagance I'm
municipal governments i'm Ohio. The
Cox government, with its host of po-
litical sinecures for gand operators
is the most expensive city government
I'm the state.
IL Is not surprising that the Cox
gang should protest against Cover
nor Harmon's plan OF limiting eX-
penditures of public money by the
per cent tax bill. The Cox gangsters
object to any restriction being placed
py the state on the expenditure of pub
nc money. IL cost money TO build nm
the Cox gang; IL Is expensive TO main
tam this greedy gang and they want
70 De Tree to levy any tax tribute
they see 1T.
Heretofore the Cox lleutentants I'm
office have fixed all the tax levles for
particular purposes, and they have
never failed to provide spending mon
ey for the boys. The levies have been
N''t6h iOl NiidAs II Governor
Harmon's l per cent tax bill should
become a law the Cox gang would
nave to practice economy to keep the
expenditures within the amount of
money which the 1 per cent rate
would yield. Cox gangsters have never
practiced economy and they do not
want to do 1t now. 1t would be hard
work for the boys. They might have
TO spend more time in their Office and
thereby render more efficient service.
If that were true public positions
would not appeal to Cox gangsters
as worth having.
There Is nothing in the per cent
tax rate bin to arouse the opposition
of public officers striving to render
economical and efficient service. If
the 1 per cent rate will not provide
sufficient revenue the people may auth
orize a higher levy by election. The
trouble with the Cox gang Is they
realize they can't carry some of their
expensive schemes at an election.
The opposition of Republican pap
ers to the l per cent bin was also
expected, for the Republican party
during its long control in the state
has been lavish in expenditures, law
ish to the point of extravaganza and
1t has missed no opportunity to
strengthen the party organization at
the public expense. 1t has made city
and village administrations the cost
llest in. the history OF the state
through the enactment of q code that
served the purposes of the politicians
of the party best.
In Attorney General Hogan, q Demo
crat, the people elected to office a
man who win ably assist Governor
Harmon in political housecleanings
whenever they are necessary. The
new attorney general has been quick
20 take hold of the reforms institute
ed by Governor Harmon during his
first administration. One of his first
important acts was the retention of
Attorney II. M. Booth of Columbus
as special counsel, and the appoint
ment of Robert w. Mccoy former as
sistlnt prosecuting attorney of Frank
lin county, to take charge of the pend
ing suits against former Republican
state Treasurer l. B. Cameron, and
the estate of w. S. Mc<innon who
was also a Republican treasurer. By
this htlgltatlon the governor hopes to
collect many thousand dollars of in
terest on public money, believed to
have been pocketed by the two de-
PENDANTS
Attorney General Hogan has also
served notice that he will not permit
the hands of any Judge investigating
vote buying, to be tied. The state
legal department will aid to get am
early decision from the supreme court
as to the right of Judge Blair to dis
franchise vote sellers in Adams coun.
~.
General Hogan has also filed a suit
to oust the McCaslSey Register Com
pany from its Ohio charter for violat-
ing antitrust laws, and he will sue
former Republican Fire Marshall
Davis and Rogers to recover money
illegally collected from the state by
them.