The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-06-05
COWDEN COMES
BACK AT cole
Declares LatteT'S Stand FaYOrS
Tax OOdger.
ASKS PERTINENT QUESTIONS
Recalls Sessions OF Mckinley Tax
Commission and Says All Members
Favored Appointment of Ward and
Township Assessors.

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Of Findlay, now junior candidate
for United States senator on the
Republican ticket, deplore the fact
that when he was growing toward
manhood in Hancock county he had
30 little experience with that useful
implement known as the buzz saw. To
his lack of acquaintance with the
homely injunction that went with the
use of this instrument is due some OF
the troubles he is now experiencing
Had he a finger touched in boyhoOd
days, say the friends Of Mr.. Cole, he
might have learned sufficient caution
to have kept away from an encounter
with the Warnes tax law and with
william N. Cowden, whom Governor
William Mckinley named to protect
| the farmers against taxation extor-
ton. Furthermore, he would hardly
have sought to repudiate the work OF
| his own managers In seeking to deny
u statement that went over his own
signature. Unhappily, schooling ex-
perience was lacking. Hence 1t has
udppeuou W, Ju0 uOy E1ouNO
also he 10 attempting retreat
A mere tri6e of IT years does not
keep Mr.. Cowden from having fun
with the bewildered Mr.. Cole. The
Cole adherents have been grleved at
the manner In which the sage OF Qua
ker City, who pleads guilty only to
being an uusophisticated tiller OF the
III hae hriI
liant corporation lawyer. college grad
uate and orator. Mr.. Cowden merely
| follows out the suggestions of Mr..
| Cole, for whom he expresses the
most kindly sympathy and dlscloses
where Mr.. Coles own statements
would lead him.
Having brought Mr. Cole to the
favoritism system of tax listing,
whereby those who could lodged sll
their taxes and left the farmers and
home owners to pay double their
share, Mr.. Cowden has, argumenta-
lively, cut off the Cole retreat and
| proceeds to annihilate his adver-
sarys contentious at his ease. but
none the less surely.
Mr.. Cowden shows that the Cole
stand Is unwittingly and unconscious
| ly In favor of the tax-dodger. Com
menting upon the unfortunate stand
the youthful candidate for senator
has taken, Mr.. Cowden asks some
very pointed questions and drives
home some pointed suggestions;
What would be the verdict of the
people on party that would appear
| before the people Of the state as a
defender of the tax-dodger and per-
! jurer--Of the man who hides his prop
erty and let's honest men build his
roads, maintain his schools, defend
| his property, light hls street and
/ house, pave his street. place a police
man at his home to guard his person
and property by day and by night,
sends a fire company to save his
home from the flames? To my mind
such man Is violator of every
command OF the decalogue, and the
party defending such conduct should
be doomed to eternal separation from
the pie counter"
II was the manner In which he had
been tripped up on statements that
led Mr.. Cowden to remark that he is
charitable enough to believe that
Mr.. Cole made his reply without a
thought Of where 1t would lead him"
! Mr. Cowden seemingly Is painod all
the more over the lapse OF Mr.. Cole
into sympathy with the bygone
scheme of favoritism and inequality
because Mr.. Coles name is attached
the Mckinley commission, the Cole
law In speaking OF the entire mat
ter Mr.. Cowden Is careful to make 1t
! plain that lie is not desirous of max
| ing worse Mr.. Coles plight, but
| wishes only to defend the memory
''of the great and good Governor NC
Klnley."
AS member of the Mckinley com
mission, especially commissioned to
look after the interests of the farm
ers. Mr., Cowden Is at loss to under
stand why Mr.. Cole should at this
! time shed copious, gushing tears"
because from the farmer has been
/ taken the sacred" right of electiug
local assesscrs. Mr.. Cowden Is
prompt to trap Mr.. Cole on his will
lingness that city tax listers should
be appointed,
Recalling the sessions of the com.
mittee, Mr. Cowden says that OF the
farmers, business men, professional
men and students who were ques-
tionsd by the commission mot a sin
gle one advocated the election OF
ward and township assessors" II
was, he says, generally agreed that
the tax assessors must be appointed
so as to fix responsibility. II there is
any other suggestion In the report. 1t
got In through inadvertence.
BY Mr.. Coles friends his latest en-
barrassment Is regarded as being all
the more aaute since orders have
been issued by party managers to
discontinue the assaults on TIE
Warnes law, Mr., Cole was slow IN
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