The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-02
ORIGINATES REVOLUTION What the City's Democratic Mayor Elect Proposes to Accomplish

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 Elect Proposes to Accomplish
 Cincinnati, Dec. 2-Even the men of his own party can not understand Henry T. Hunt, mayor-elect of Cin> cinnati. What puzzles them is that he IS actually starting out to keep his campaign promises.
 Hunt Is a Democrat. When he was running for office. he said: "This is not a Democratic fight; it is a fight for good government
 And after he had been elected, he declared: This is victory, not for < Democracy, but for Cincinnati-not for partisanship but for patriotism"
 And he is actually acting in the spirit of his conversation.
 He Is going to establish a real civil service
 He will make efficiency, not vote- getting qualifications, the test.
 He Is going to make a rule prohi- , biting city employees from taking ac- tive part in politics.
 Suicidal" the Democratic politi- clans are crying. How does he ex- pect to get more than one term with Cut a party organization of office fholders? Who's going to get out the vote for him next time?'
 But that g just where Henry T. Hunt, 33. Is better politician than any of the grizzled "wheel-horses' from whose lips has ascended a pite- ous wall for they, too, will have to toe the efficiency mark if they would get the jobs they're after.
 "I hope by my conduct in office to give the people of Cincinnati perm anent lesson in the value Of non-par- tisan administration of public af- fairs," says Mayor-elect Hunt. And if make good I am, willing to place my political future in the hands of the people of Cincinnati I am confi- dent the people will be appreciative. They're tired of politics in city government, our people in Cincinnati" says Hunt That's why they voted for a change of administration. We have had political government long enough We want q business govern
 'The distribution of offices for poli- tical reward made Cincinnati's Repub- lican machine. We had at the City Hall veritable praetorian guard. of office-holders with George B. Cox as Caesar. These men felt that their first obligation was to Cox. And Cox grew rich through his ability to trade with corporations and others for the influence he had over these men. He owned their jobs and could fire the man who disobeyed. you have the necessary legal instru- ments to uncover the facts. For a long time we had had suspicious that George B. Cox was getting rich on public plunder. In fact, President Taft voiced the same suspicion in his we were unable to give the people. proof. I was elected prosecutor. There had been rumors that large sums of county interest money. had 1heen, given by county treasurers- 9te George B. Cox. the boss. brought these men before the grand jury and they told
 "For the first time, then. we had the facts. George B. Cox was indict-
 sThe people for the first time realiz- cd that the Boss who was powerful enough to command gifts of public moneys from county treasurers. must also be powerful enough to command distribution of contracts and fran chises to corporations. And then they viewed with understanding the suspicious circumstances that sur rounded the letting of certain street contracts last year.
 George B. Cox was freed of, the perjury charge without trial and then the people saw that he even con- trolled the judiciary. And he sued a bragging statement admitting he had been Boss and telling how he had nominated city and county of ficials.
 "You see we no longer had mere suspicious. We had facts. We killed the gang with facts.
 "And the election of the Democratic l anti-gang ticket was revolt against the conditions the facts disclosed. In an address I delivered before the Ma tionaf Municipal League. took as my subject The Cincinnati Revolu- tfon.'
 'aThat is exactly what we have gone through-a revolution. Cincinnati has revolted against machine government, not merely Republican machine goV- ernment, but all other kinds. I be- ieve We have a mandate rom the people that we must not nurse into being a Democratic machine similar to the Republican one that has Just been destroyed.
 "T believe that real Civil Service alone can prevent the building up will have real Civil Service. We will | have experts at the head of depart ments and they will have to pass ex- aminations. The jobs to be filled by | eaPss of T the ee a however, will be preferred-every- thing else being equal.
 we have in Ohio, now, a tax law that limits the amount of taxation municipality may .nnsi. asgHssi nnn,cin.i This is
  economy.
 'sNow then we can have economy only through efficiency in administra- tion.
 we can secure efficiency only through efficient men.
 We can get efficient men only through Civil Service. And we can get real Service only through elimin- ation of partisan politics. No city employe will be permitted to take any part whatever in politics.
 Now it may be asked what we intend to have in place of the of- f1ce-holders' or political organization which is thought to be necessary for political success. We propose to build an independent peoples organization with ward representation. These ward organizations will be conducted not merely for political purposes but mostly to the end that the people of the wards may have a greater share in the business of the city govern ment. They will have chairmen, it is proposed, through whom they will speak their needs and wishes"
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