The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-06-16
A FEW WORDS TO THE
HON. MR.. BOYLE

In a recent interview given out at
Washington, Senator Burton called at
tention to vicious attacks that have
| been recently made upon him in Can
ned Editorials" sent out by Republican
press bureaus in Columbus and print
ed by unsuspecting Republican editors
over the state. The senator compared
| this practice with assassination and
lot of honest Republican editors saw
wherein they had been imposed upon
ard are now carefully scrutinizing the
product of these press bureaus and
tossing much of 1t into the waste bas-
ket. As the CALLED jade wlnces, so
does James Boyle, who conducts what
ls known as the regular organization
Republican press bureau in Columbus.
When attention was directed to Sen
atOr BurtOn's charge and the observa-
tion was made that some of these Re
publican publishers "have permitted
themselves to be used by the liability
insurance companies, the school book
rings and other partners in privilege
who had only to make satisfactory ar
rangements with the heads of these
Republican press bureaus in order to
instill their specious lies into the Re-
publican readers ears" Mr.. Boyle
threw fit and Immediately denounc-
ed Democratic Chairman Finley in Wig
orous terms. In his deuunciation Mr..
Boyle robbed the small dictionary at
hand of all the vitrolic adjectives it
contained and then ran "A row of as
terisks in his copy to express an indig-
nation for which he could find no
words. In the interest of brevity, he
might have eliminated the hazard
from his symbols and proceeded with
his task.
The public Is not Interested in Mr..
Boyle's opinion of Mr.. Finley nor Mr..
Finley's opinion of Mr. Boyle. But
since the latter occupies the position
of official explainer for the Republican
state organization the public would be
interested were he to explain the fol-
lowing upon which the inference that
publishers Of Republican papers have
been used by Republicans news bu-
reaus in the interest and in behalf of
the liability insurance companies is
founded. And until such explanation
is forthcoming the inference will
stand
Dan Hanna was by far the largest
| Ohio contributor to campaign funds
In 1912. He was the largest individual
contributor to the Ohio Equity asso-
citation which attempted to foist upon
| the people OF this state fraudulent
referendum declared 80 by the su-
preme courD on the workmen's com
pensation act and the Warnes taxa
tion act. His personal attorney di-
rected this attempted fraud.
Dan Hanna is the biggest Republic
an In Ohio today AT least Harry
Daugherty, chairman of the Republic
an state executive committee, thinks
he 10. Otherwise, why these frequent
trips OF Daugherty to Cleveland to con
fer with Hanna? True, 1t may be that
Daugherty, in behalf of his organiza-
tion. wants to share in Hanna's munif-
icent political contributions But we
prefer to believe the former. Daugh-
erty and Hanna have entered into an
offensive and defensive political ALI.
ance, Daugherty is doing what Han
ma tells him to do. Why shouldn't
Hanna contribute to Daugherty's press
bureau which Mr.. Boyle operates? And
why shouldn't Mr., Hanna request the
press bureau to favor one of his or
ganizations. to wit, the Ohio Equity
association, which speaks for the liza.
bility insurance companies and oppos-
es the worlmen's compensation and
the Warnes taxation laws?
Why does Mr.. Tod, Mr.. Daughertys
and MIR. lianna's candidate for COVER
nor take up the cudgels for the Equity
association and parrot their false
statements In reference to these laws?
Does Mr.. Boyle blame an honest Re
publican editor who unwittingly as
sisted in the assassination of Senator
Burton for feeling that he may be
again imposed upon and delivered oy-
or, body and breeches to the malodor-