The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-10-31
they TURNED
The RASCALS IN
A SUMMARY OF THE RESULT
SHOWN IN FIGURES REP
RESENTING CASH.
REFORM AND RETRENCHMENT
Promises Treated as Jokes-Expenses
Cut Up Instead of Down by the
Legislature of Blessed Memory
co Democratic Legislatures Come High.
(RY JOHN p. MAYNARp)

1
ITO hell with our platform; to hell
with our promises; what we wanted
we're the offices and now that we have
hem we propose to use them"
A very prominent Democratic boss
made this remark in the lobby Of the
Neil House in Columbus two years
| ago when the Democratic state Off
cials and a Democratic legislature
came into power
In 1910 the Democrats were elected
to state offices and to the legislature
largely upon three propositions. They
gaid the Republican state officials
we're eXtravagant in spending the
moneys of the state; they said that
| there were too many employees and
that their salaries were too great;
| the Democrats promised, and the
Democratic press went on their bond,
that if the machinery was turned over
| "ntirely to them that they would do
better work with less employees and
| for less money; they promised that
| tate business would be done on
| strictly business lines and that they
| would retrench and practice strict
"cOnomy
These promises sounded good and
| thousands of voters voted for
change.
New Rules for Old Game.
It was indeed a shrewd political
idea; it was new way of working
the cid and hackneyed game of turn
the rascals OUT; it worked and the
Democrats came into power
Now observe, please, how faithfully
0r rather how unfaithfully they have
',ept their promises of reform, re-
'renchment and strict economy.
During the last year of Republican
~onduct of state affairs up to October,
908, toe expense of running the state
%as $7,713, ,29740.
During the last year of Democratic
conduct of state affairs up to Oct
Der %, 1912, the expense of running
the state was $9,O77,OO4.S2
That is to say the Democrats doing
business for the state for practically
the same purposes and for the same
lonGth Of time, spent $1,363 ,70742
more than did the Republicans.
The last Democratic legislature (of
blessed memory and which was
elected under solemn promises of re-
form, retrenchment and strict econ
0myO authorized the Democratic state
1hicials to eXpend during the years
# 1911 and 1912 the sum of $19,793,-
1890. The Republican legislature of
9O7 and 1908 authorized expendi-
ures to the amount of $16,177, ,439.S6.
That is, the last Democratic legis-
'ature (of blessed memory and which
"ame into power under positive prom
'seB of reform, retrenchment and rig
id economy, authorized to be expend-
ed $3,616,325O4 more than did the
Republicans-and all this extra ex-
pense in years of peace, with no
foods, no epidemics or any other
hings to cause this very extraordi-
Galy expense.
Unsacred Promises.
True, about 100000 of this in
'reased Democratic expense was for
additional employees and for increased
alares of those already in office,
Nut even so, was it not contrary to
heir sacred promises of reform, re.
.renchment and strict economy?
The years of 1909-1910 can not be
considered as the affairs Of state,
were partly under Democratic control
and partly under Republican control.
The Democratic press has just
given out the assuring news that in
October, 1912, under Democratic rule,
here is in the treasury of state the
rum of $4,657, ,262.12. Very good, and
he people of Ohio are pleased and
astonished to know it; but for politi.
cal effect it loses it's significance
when compared with the fact that in
October, 1908, under Republican rule,
there was $5,2S1, ,59361, or $624,331.47
more under Republican rule than
there is under Democratic rule
These figures are absolutely cor.
rect and were taken from the books
Of Auditor of State e. M. Fullington,
the Republican candidate for re-elec-
ton to this office, and of whom it has
been truly said that "this state nor
any Other state ever had a more
capable or safer official"
Ears Listened Wrong.
This last Democratic legislature (of
blessed memory, which had such ex.
nensive ideas and which has been so
thoroughly denounced, is not entirely
to blame for all the wrong commit
ted. To their shame and to their sor.
row, they would not listen to a we'll |
meaning governor; they were as hard
to manage as the wild asses of the
desert" The only persons they
seemed to listen to were the Demo
cratic bosses, and these same bosses |
even now, feeling sure of Democratic
success and flushed with supposed
continuation of power, are planning to |
again control the legislature.
A vote for any state official in this |
year Of 1912 is a vote to encourage |
= further raid on the state treasury |
and to increase the number of Off. |
o'als. A vote for any Democratic can
idate for the legislature is a vote |
# confidence and approval to the |
last Democratic legislature (of bless |
ed memory.