The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-05-16
FULLEST BARREL
LOST ITS BUNC
Brown EmgIatGd Films Method
In SmsaTing Grease,
TOM PLAT MADE 7. R GREAT

He Managed the Organization ant
Provided Funds For lt-His cres'
ture Made the Noise-Bryan Says
Harmon is a Conseript in Progress
sive Ranks.
Columbus, O., May 14.-(Special)--
The political developments of the
fast few days in this state recall an |
Did, old story. One Hickey Smith, who
rather pr!ded himself on his muscle,
was one day discovered writing down
a list of names.
And why are you writing down
those names, Hickey?" asked his
friend Jones.
These" said Hickey, without look
ing up, "are the names of the men in
this town that | can lick
"And is my name there, Hickey?
at is" said Smith
Mr.. Jones turned that over in his
mind for a time, as he chewed a
straw. Then he tapped Hickey Smith
on the shoulder. You big lobster"
said he, getting red on the cheek
bones, "you can't lick one side of
me-"
"All right, Jonesie," said Smith, "Ill
cross your name off,
Colonel Roosevelt had been a bit
fussy, as they say on High street. He
had called President Taft a good
many names. He said a good many
untrue and malicious things about
him. He attacked Taft for policies
with which at the time Roosevelt had
been in thorough sympathy, but which
he later feared might be unpopular in
some sections. He grinned at his
train-tail audiences, and snapped his
teeth, and rammed his fist into the
palm of the other hand, and was en-
phatic and vainglorious and mislead-
ing. He rarely attempted to meet an
issue. He is an adept at side step
ping. Confronted by his record, and
his habit was to raise his voice and
call names A fact was to him merely
curious and interesting, but by no
means a valuable thing. And Presi-
dent Taft had refused to reply.
Beware Wrath of Patient
But Roosevelt went too far. He
tampered with fate too long, and the
placid, kindly, smiling Taft finally re-
piled to him with a broadside He
,lt ,s1 h.
could But he exposed his falsity and
his malice and his bitter itch for fur
ther power in such terms that the
colonel's epidermis mist have sizzled.
Taft was dignitied, hut he was none
the less direct. Forced into a corner,
as he declared himself, he then
proved his fighting quality. And
from that moment the tide of senti-
ment changed in Ohio. On the au-
thority of the leaders of the Taft
organization. there is no longer any
doubt that "the Presidents friends
will control the state convention in
Ohio. They will completely dominate
it."
President Taft's dignified reticence
had somewhat hampered his friends
The disgruntled, the office seekers,
those who take everv strange bait Of
politics, asking only that it be new,
had been noisy and confident in their
claims. Colonel Roosevelt's followers
n Ohio had the advantage of the
fatteS' barrel that ever lost a bung
The state was tOp-dressed with
money. Walter Brown, the northern
Ohio boss who has been leading the
Roosevelt battalions, visited Colonel
Roosevelt at Oyster Bay-and then,
by strange and suggestive coinci-
dence-visited Boss Bill Finn at
Pittsburg. 1t was Finn who in
vented new way of using money at
primary election
New Negotiable Paper.
The state law forbade the employ
ment of workers" above a certain
number at each polling place. And
so Finn hired messengers" as he
called them, and gave to each a
promissory note for five dollars, pay
able two days after the primary had
been held. The duties of the mes
sengers" were to vote right" in the
primaries. There is NJ case on record
of man foOlhardy enough to vote
wrong" daring to present that bit Of
scrip for payment. Not to Bill Finn.
| E1iDp mn nm
contracts in Pittsburg. Films way
of dealing with man who tries to
flim-fam him are as direct as those
Of a bucko mate with drunken
mutineer. Wherever Brown got the
money he has been spending, he went
to the right quarter for advice as to
how 1t should be spent.
Money Talks In Whispers,
But money and noise do not cast
the deciding vote in Ohio, From the
night that President Taft began his
white hot series OF replies to Roose-
welt, sentiment began to change.
From every district the reports came
in to headquarters Then it was an
nounced that President Taft would
make one final whirlwind tour during
this week, and demands came in from
almost every voting place in the state
that he should give at least Ave min
utes to delineation Of the issues.
The voters wanted to hear of his
peace plans, AND Of Colonel Rooss.
velt's hearty endorsement Of the reck
procity proposals - afterward dsAies
and of the folly of the recall, ana
OF the tariff board. and the postal saw
lngs banks and the bureau Of mines
and the scores Of other proofs Of his
progressiveness. In his previous tour
II was n0taJ thot bio oudiapoac nm