The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-09-18
COP. STACCERS
UNDER BIG LOAD
Compelled to Shoulder Harvey
CARRIER.
MANY pITIABlE MISTAKES

haHSc oi WINS WIN halfway
Equipment Men and Lobbyists Is
Shown Up.
To the surprise and chagrin OF
earnest Republican voters, hopeful
for the first time in years, the evil
omen that brought dicaster to the
platform conclave has clung persist
emily to the party managers. Fairly
staggering from the load of the tenn
perance' and highway planks, the
latest burden they are called upon to
assume is an open alliance with Har-
vey c. CARRIER, late telephone lobby
ist. and one time state Democratic
chairman. The strategic move that
compelled the disclosure or the Sc
cret political treaty that had existed
between Congressman Frank B. VIII
lis, Republican candidate for COVER
nor, and Mr.. CARRIER was executed by
James r. Garfield, the Progressive
nominee.
Taken of His Guard.
Taken utterly off his guard, Mr..
CARRIER answered the charge of Mr..
Garfield that railway equipment in
terests financed the Willis pre-pri-
mary canvass for their own purposes,
by openly appearing as the champion
of Mr. Willis. Those who studied the
Garfield attack and the CARRIER reply
have remarked that there came from
Mr.. CARRIER no word of real denial,
nor indeed has one come from Mr..
Willis at Washington
But Mr.. Willis Democratic ally, Mr..
CARRIER, really went farthest toward
ensnaring himself when he dared
Governor James NJ. Cox to corrobo-
rate what Mr. Garfield said. His
promise was to expose both the gov
ernor and his campaign manager, the
Democratic state chairman, William
l.. Finley. The governor waited only
until the numerous duties thrust upon
him by reason of the state fair were
over until he granted Garber,s re-
quest. Without hesitation he admit
ted that Garfield told the truth when
he charged that CARRIER sought the
appointment of member of the state
public utilities commission and the
selection of his own brother as Sec
retary.
Vexatious Stand.
With a degree of tact that must
I've been highly vexing to those
anxious to divert him from a discus
sion of the campaign issues, the gov
ernor plainly said that he did not
propose to be diverted from the real
issues, the wisdom and justice of the
laws advocated by the administra
ton" However, the governor ex-
pressed a willingness to take "an &C.
casional day off, to give attention to
barn rats driven out by the anti
lobby law. In politics so many differ
ent and varied names have been ap-
piled to Mr.. CARRIER that he might even
overlook the newest one inferentially
bestowed but the open dare to take
the lid off, as he threatened when
harassed by Mr. Garfield he can not
well escape.
Compelled to Admit 1t.
With distress increasing and COM
PEELED to admit the open CARRIER ALI
ance, the Progressives apparently
have already done to the Republicans
what the whole Democratic party
could not do in 1910. No longer can
there be a secret union, and Republi.
can managers frankly confess that
damaging as it is they must shoulder
the responsibility for CARRIER, just as
they have assumed the unfortunate
mistakes made upon the temperance
Issue and the alienation of the sup
porters of the good roads movement.
A natural complement of the charge
that CARRIER has turned against Gov
ernor Cox because the executive
promptly and firmly turned down his
suggestion to control the public utili-
ties commission is that CARRIER and
associates will be allowed free hand
if Willis should be elected governor
In other words, the question naturally
will be asked if Governor Cox should
be defeated because he turned against
CARRIER, can Willis as governor logic
ally do otherwise than give him free
hand in making minority appoint
ments?
Already badly damaged and placed
under suspicion by every civic and
business organization in the state that
has backed the good roads movement,
the Bradbury incident gave more than
semblance OF confirmation to the story
that the Republican plank on the high
way issue was conceived in the minds
OF number of allied interests whose
efforts TO work with the state high
way department. under Commissioner
lanes r. Marker. have been repeated
Iy and summarily rebuked
Every Independent journal in the
state has bitterly denounced the pro
pcsal to poison the highway watcn
dog" as Chairman Finley aDtlv term