The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-06-30
MEDITATIONS OF UNCLE JOSH

he does like SOW in a cornfield-Just
gets part of it. The facts in the case
are that the average cost OF assess
ment for the years 1910 to 1913, or the
four years proceeding this one, is 81
213.2S and this does not include sta
tionery or printing, but is on the same
basis that the Boss gets his figures OF
$3,469.54 Now take his figures,
SO, ,469.54 from $7,2132S, and you hav-
$3,743.72. This goes to show how re-
liable his statements are. He only
takes part of the truth and tries to
make the dear people think it is the
whole No wonder T. r. used to howl
'1iar' so much. He knows what the
trouble really was.
This twisting and misrepresenting
the facts proves beyond a doubt that it
is not only unwise, but dangerous, to
good government to appoint any OF
the Boss's henchmen to fill offices Of
public trust, for if they put so small a
price on honor when they are not in
power, what wouldn't they stoop to if
they could only besmirch the name of
some officer of the opposite political
faith in order to further their scheme
They have howled about Jim Cox
on every hand, but they can't bring
any sound argument against the fact
| that there is a handsome surplus in
the State Treasury, and, by the way,
some of that surplus, no mean sum,
either, has been recovered from these
! G. o. P. Bosses-money stolen from
the people. Did these Bosses howl
| when Foraker was draining the last
dollar he could get from the people,
almost banpupting the State? No;
they were full fed. They MIXED the
public COW to the last drop and there
was no one to choke them off. How
much did the G.. o. P. Boss of Knox
county get of that milk, is something
we would like to know.
The trouble with Jimmie Cox is that
he doesn't summon these vampires in
to Columbus to meet him in some dive
where honest people could not see and
dish out this surplus to them. They
are lean, NANCY and illfed, all because
Jimmie Cox carries the key to the
strong box. Being in this condition
they are suffering not from hydro
phobia, but from Coxitis. When you
see Republican throw fit about the
laws or the present administration you
will know what Is the matter, and q
wooden man could guess how that per
son lived in those dear old Republican
days.
How would you like to be a laborinf
man with good job and getting alonf
well and your wife would go to anoth
er state to visit, leaving the home yot
had provided and whilo away she get.
miffed at you, and the prosecuting at
torney of the county of that other STATE
calls the grand jury, has you indicted
for nonsupport? An officer is sent af
ter you, you are taken from your work
taken to that other state withou
friends or money, you are locked up il
Jail to await the pleasure of the prose
cutor, you lie in Jail two or three
months when you are led out for trial
you prove that you are nonresiden
of the state, that you never refused t.
provide for your wife, but that yol
have home furnished and want her tt
come to it. The big-hearted Judge seei
you have been wronged. He asks tn,
prosecutor to nolle the indictment
The prosecutor refuses, but in detianc,
OF the Great | Am, the judge sets yol
free and nolles the indictment himself
You are freed without a cent hundred
of miles from home. Your reputation
is injured, you have lost many dogs
work, which means a hard year TO
you, for when you stop work, your pa!
stops, and winter is coming on. Yol
have no redress at the prosecutor VIII,
in his Unsuitable desire for notoriet.
has made you his victim.
This outrage did not happen in Mexl
co or some other foreign land, but il
the land of the free and the home o
the brave-right here in old Knox coun
ty, State of Ohio. The victim was
resident of Philadelphia, Pa. and ha,
been for years, as was proved in court
The Republican Prosecutor Cromle
was the one who caused all this to haT
pen, Judge Jewell was the judge VIII
dared defy him and took the risk o
) public opinion in order that justic
; might be done. The records show tina
it cost the taxpayers of Knox count
$l0090 to help the prosecutor humil
ate and injure this citizen of anothe
state over whom Ohio had no iurisdit
tion.
= This is only one of the many wrong
that have been perpetrated on the poo
people by Republican officials. Th
= Republican Judge Summers who keT
the widow out of damages due her fo