The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-08-28

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lifting the institutions OF this i'm
perial commonwealth. Under ou
amended constitution, upon which
many good men looked with doubt
new and drastic legislation has placed
Ohio in the lead among those states
which may be justly classed as sanell
progressive. The transformation which
has been wrought has been so thor
ough, so rapid and so revolutionary
that some citizens of the state stand
aghast and, by their frank amaze
ment, furnish a high testimonial tC
these many and searching reforms
Legislative Reforms.
To recite the long list of legislative
and administrative reforms Of the
last two years would be a work oi
supererogation before an audience as
intelligent as this; but II might not
be amiss to briefly mention a few OF
the most important. Consider the
workmen's compensation act; where
Is the man, woman or child In this
great state who is not proud OF the
humanitarian governor and legisla-
ture who conferred upon labor this
inestimable boon. Add to this the
eighteen other laws recently passed
for the benefit of the workmen OF
Ohio, and what becomes Of the sense
less soeialistic cry that labor needs a
better guardian than the Democratic
party?
Turn your attention to the stringent
acts upon the subject Of taxation
which, added to laws along the same
line enacted by the preceding Demo
cratic legislature and governor, have
enabled the present administration to
add over fifteen hundred million dol
lars to the duplicate These stupen-
dous figures sufficiently account for
the opposition which these laws have
aroused; certain respectable tax
dodgers have been compelled to dis
gorge, and it is but natural that they
should whine about it.
What about the economies of the
present administration-the estab-
lishment OF a budget commissioner
with his business-like methods; and
the consolidation, under efficient ap-
pointees, into an industrial commits
sion of seven important boards and Of
fetal bodies which had been unavoid-
ably working at cross purposes and
with resultant extravaganza? What
about the moralities of this admins
tration-the extension to that most
competent body, the board of admins
tration, of authority to deal with
Juvenile delinquents wherever found,
so as to redeem those who were
morally delinquent and provide for
the safety and comfort of those who
were physically or mentally deficient;
and of the employment by the same
board of the hundreds of heretofore
idle convicts in farming, road build
ing, brick making and other whole
some and productive occupations,
thereby attempting to save those
who were capable of reformation?
The same primary which renomi
mated Governor Cox also filled the en-.
tire state ticket with a complement
of nominees every one Of whom is
man of conceded ability, wide public
experience and unblemished private
character; and the same high encon-
ium may justly be pronounced upon
all of the candidates for the two
houses of the general assembly who,
at the same time were nominated
in their respective counties and dis
tricts. In addition to our state
officers we have, for the first
time, nominated candidate for
United States senator in the person
of that gifted lawyer who so capably
and cleanly, through four astonish-
ingly successful years, has filled the
office Of attorney general and who,
by sheer industry, rugged integrity
and native ability, has risen to his
prssent honorable and enviable posi-
Gbn 1t is superfluous to name him
for everybody knows and loves that
genial Democrat, Timothy s. Hogan;
and it is no disparagement to his two
able competitors to say that no bet
ter nomination could have been made. |
The election Of a senator and twen-
.y-two representatives in congress is
reminder that we are engaged In
,attle on national issues. Six years
lgo the Republican party polled over
;even and one-half million votes upon
he solemn promise to revise an un-
air and burdensome tariff which had
,ecome obnoxious to almost the entire
Electorate of the country. While this
,romise did not say, in specific words,
hat the revision should be downward,
he campaign was made upon the
unanimous belief of the people that
uch would be the case; although the
party had already revised
he tariff thirteen times and in every
Instance the revision was upward. I'm
er the leadership Of Serene E. Payne
nd Nelson w. Aldrich they again re-
ised it upward with full knowledge
hat they had Intentionally cheated
he people in their prediction prom
Seven the wool schedule, which
resident Taft had denounced as I'm
was not reduced. To get
ven with these deceivers the people
ad to wait until 1912; but, when the
rand Old Party emerged from that
reck, 1t was floating on two narrow
nd rotten planks-one thrown to it
Y the debauched electors Of Mormon
tab, and the other by the hopelessly
Igoted electors of Vermont.
Keeping the Pledges.
For the first time in half century
o. Il.