The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1914-11-20
Hungry Horde

hungry horde hungry horde is the
4 way they always refer to them-when
Governor John M. Patterson came into
Office. But that hungry horde will be
nothing to the hungry horde which
!, will descend on Columbus at about the
same time that the politicians and the
j Columbus Chamber of Commerce to
j scrap about tickets to the inaugural
ball. The horde which is coming has
tasted blood, and like the "tame" lion
which once gets its meat served so
rare the warm blood is running out
land ever afterward is wild as March
hare, so will it be with this horde
when it smells blood again. And even
now it smells it from afar.
| The Democratic horde which came
in was not SO hungry because it hadn't
had taste for so long it had forgot
ten what the taste was like. Just think !
over the list-Herrick, Nash two
4 terms, Bushnell two terms, Mckinley |
two terms, then James E. Campbell,
elected in 1885, It's far cry from
1891, when Campbell went out, to
1906, when Patterson went in-four-
teen full years. Fourteen lean years
would describe it better.
So it may be safely gambled that
Mr.. Willis viii be asked which boards
and which commissions he will abol-
,, ish. There will also be some strong
talk of repeating the civil service law
not because the Republicans do not
favor civil service, dear me, no. But
the Democratic civil service law, you
know, was passed with the sole idea
= Of building up Democratic machine,
and a civil service law built on such
a foundation could not possibly be q
= good civil service law. What the re-
publicans ought to do is to repeal this
iniquitious Democratic civil service
- law, which isn't enforced as it should
be because it is such weak law that
y it cannot be enforced properly. They
should repeal this law and pass a
:, good civil service law. It would be
= |, good idea to have the old law go out
= of effect just as soon as the bill passes
p, the legislature and have the new one
- go into effect about six months later
: in order to give he Governor and the
=, other state officials ample opportunity
!. - to get into good working order the
=, machinery it will be necessary to in
,s stall to see that the good Republican
n law is properly enforced. That's what
the Republicans ought to do, and it il
what they will do if they have the
m nerve.
IN A full-fedged politician, who works
of at it for his living, who believes, wher
e. he is out Of job, that civil service
law is a good thing, is just about al
=, probable a creature as is Turkisl
y general capturing st. Petersburg. !
is within the realm Of possibility, /
he you make it a good big realm. Civi
r service is usually joke; it is intend
n ed to be-. The people might as wei
at let the politicians be honest whel
OF they want to, and that is one thin,
be they certainly will be honest about i
d given the opportunity. They believ
lg that to the victor belong the spoils
re and will divide them if they get
u chance. There is a lot of namby
pamby talk about keeping a good ma
re in a job when you find him, but ther
D. have been instances known in tn
OF business world to which the reformer
ne refer when some employees forge
ed they have any duties to customers an
wv forget that they do not own the bus
ry mess; they stay SO long on the jo
n they commence to think it belongs +
'e' them. There is very effectual wa
~ of curing the disease in the busines
ln' world; they can the man who owns il
n But there is no way to do it unde
n civil service.
a A certain critic Of political condi
tions says that already, the men VIII
Is have been elected representative
'r want to run for senator; the men VIII
ol were elected senator's all want to b
u governor; and every governor elect
he in the country thinks he is candidat
on for president. He overlooks the one
iiu in Democratic counties which stage
~ democratic, therefore leaving lot {
,iu II "lame ducks. And what shall we {
'ie with those who run for nomination
-, and did not get them? Yes, there wi
'Ae be some politics during the next tv
years.
0eS There will be a lovely session Of Il
~ legislature. The drys already wal
% to raise the saloon tax to $500
Wy year, and they want the per capita I,
- -, each saloon made larger, so there w
~ be fewer licenses. There will be 9
the decentralization which Mr.. Will
"A' nroYnised the OaDpinO of bossiHI