The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-10-15
DREAMER OUT
AGAINST COX
EBsUns STATEMENT Nv WHICH HE
uxTTE3LY ABBAIL8 IKE PRES
ENT GOVERNOR
Announces rntsntaon 20 vote For Hr.
Wmis, the Republican Candidate
-Expiodss cox Argumsnts-
Intsilirsnosr Bureau
Columbus. O. Oct Il.

Coiumbus. o. Oct Ia
ID. 3. Creamer OF 81. Clairsvtlle. now
reading In Columbus, who served two
terms as treasurer OF Ohio. bitterly as
sailed Governor Cox In statement H.
sued yesterday. In which he declared he
would vote for Frank b. Willis. Cox's
Republican opponent this fall He urged
his friends. however. to vote for the re-
mainder of the Democratic ticket
faction which has organized the True
Democracy League. Other candidates
on the ticket with Cox declared they do
not want the Leagues support n II can
not give its aid to Cox also.
In his statement Mr.. creamer. who
uas forced 10 decline TO take the stump
because OF III health. said:
Il have never solicited favor OF any
kind from Governor Cox. either directly
or Indirectly. for myself or any other
person. and am therefore not disap-
pointed place-hunter. My objection TO
the governor II. that he has violated the
fubdamental principles OF self-govern-
msnt upon which every American Insti-
tuition was founded; has centralized pow
ero IN his own hands which rtghtfully
I. belong TO the people: has Increased sal
aries and multiplied places for hench-
men In almost every department OF the
sS.rss Ss,nn mio nee Of
expense annually TO be paid by the peo-
PIE and has built up a great personal
political machine in Ohio beside which
the Tammany organization OF New York
n hut n pigmy. Moreover, Il well
known. he favored the short ballot
amsndmsnt under which. had IL carried.
he would have appointed the county Of
6cfals IN the eighty-eight counties of
The Ftate. thus further robbtng the peo-
DE n their right OF self-government and
more firmly establishing the principles OF
naturalization and autocracy In govern
ment for which Governor Cox has con-
etantly strfven. Much 10 made OF the in
der the warnes law and appointed as
bessors. but I would remind those in
terested that under Governor Harmon
The grand duplicate was increased on
real and personal property more than
your billions when local assessors were
Injected, while Governor Coz IL now
boesting OF an increase Of less than one
Million BY reason OF the warnes law and
kppointed assessors.
NJ Governor Cox is also taking credit for
The Workmen's Compensation law. but 1
think the people should know that that
law was originally enacted when Har-
mon was givernor. May 81. 1911. after
an Investigation by a committee appoint
Harmon advanced from his private
purse s2.720.32 10 defray expenses OF
state Liability Board and a question
arose as to the constitutionality OF the
Jaw. which was tested In suit brought
1urins my ineumbency OF the state
treasurers office. the case being Num-
Der 1880. as shown by the records of
the supreme court OF Ohio
His claim that he has reduced the
number OF employees and attendant ex-
penses In the state by centralizfng
power, Is well answered by the indis-
putabie fact that the Cox Industrial
Conmission. controlling some seven de-
partments that formerly existed sepa-
fately. now have over 100 more en-
ployes than was formerly needed when
these departments were separate. and
this Is but illustration OF the waste
end extravaganza of the Cox admins
tration wherever the tentscles OF his
BOWER reaches.
. i have been a Democrat all my life
because j believe In the rights OF the
*eople and government by the people.
principles which were taught by Jeffer-
- and practiced BY the sovereign citi-
x<nship OF our country ever since they
Here made by the Declaration OF 1T7s.
But. n Jefferson was q Democrat Cox
~ not. for Jefferson said: The v1l1 OF
We people Is the natural law OF every
society and the only sure guardian OF
the rights OF man"