Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-05-26

Ihls total, colossal as it is, does not
by any means represent the whole
number Of federal employees. That is
rather n excess of twice as many as
enumerated above. But this may fair
ly be called the roster of presidential
patronage.
The exhibit stirred the ire Of Rep
resentatlVe W. A. Cullop of Indiana,
who seized the occasion when the
house was debating the free list to
make a speech on the subject. The
pith of the Cullop grafton was the
need for the election, rather than the
appointment, of postmasters and
other federal officials, remedy about
which there may be some marked diff
ference OF opinion. But there can be
no such difference as to the vigor
with which the Indianian denounces
the existing evil and defends his rem.
edy.
Ohio Scandal and Harmon.
1t Is only natural that the revela-
tons OF wholesale corruption in the
Ohio legislature should have caused
endless and excited discussion Next
to speculation upon the probable time
of adjournment, the question most oft
en- heard in the cloakrooms and about
the hotel Hobbies has been What eff
feet will this have on the presidential
candidacy of Governor Harmon?"
THE best thing that has happened
for Governor Harmon since his first
election" said General Sherwood, the
veteran representative from the To
ledo district. ''To begin with. the
three Democrats who have been in
dicted are the men who have been
Systematically blocking all the COVER
nors efforts for progressive or rene
dial legislation. They are the legisla
tive agents of the Hanley-Garber
gang. Now they are under indictment
for soliciting and accepting gribes.
The cornerstone of the anti-Harmon
faction in Ohio-a faction ALWAYS
more noisy than powerful-being
shown to be rotten, the whole super
structure will collapse The foes OF
the governor both in and out Of Ohio
have been insisting that he could not
get solid delegation from the state.
With the chief Heutenants of the men
who oppose a solid delegation under
Indictment and perhaps by the time
OF the convention in the penitentiary
certainly out of the legislature and
out of influential public life-that
danger is averted"
Il don't know, nor does anybody
else said Representative Ashbrook
OF Johnstown, O., how much part the
governor had in instigating the de-
tective work which resulted in drag
ging the bride takers into the light
of day. He was cognizant of course of
what was going On in the legislature
and may have taken this course to
secure legal proof The celebrity and
vigor with which he took hold of the
situation, however suggests that he
was not wholly unprepared for the
explosion. He interviewed swiftly to
prevent legislative investigation lest
by testifying before it the culprits
might secure an immunity bath He
demanded explosions from the legisla-
ture, swift trials and penitentiary SEN
fences in the event of conviction. The
Harmon slogan, Guilt is always per-
sonal,' which sounded so well in his
last platform, is being given practical
exemplification. Finally he has been
in conference with the leaders of the
Republican party and has enlisted
their hearty support in the work Of
purging the legislature The boodling
gang was bipartisan. Neither party
was entirely unsmirched But so far
as the fractional division in the Demo
cratic party is concerned, it is the
anti-Harmon faction that is under in
dictment"
Copyright, 1911, by Joseph B. Bowles)