Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-01-09

there have been admitted since 1t was |
opened S,554 men, $3.50 have died, |
4,453 discharged and 1,411 remain. He |
makes no recommendations.
Retrospective and prospective is the
contribution of Dr. F. W. Harmon, for |
nearly "a years superintendent of the |
Longview hospital at Cincinnati, to the |
Forthcoming annual report of the state |
board of administration. Tracing hos |
pital management from the days when |
the old "bull pen" of the asylum for |
lunatics" prevailed to the times of sci |
entific treatment and humane care of |
the hospital" Dr. Harmon asserts the
progress made has been commensu-
rate with the advance of civilization"
Political Events for 1914.
A varied assortment of political
events will make the year 1914
one of almost continued interest.
From the beginning to the end of
the coming year the series of
political happenings will be virtually
unending, and the effect will be that
of vast political drama in which both
tragedy and comedy will have their
turns. Even now all the political
leaders are alive to the importance of
the things that will take place before
another year rolls around and all of
them are up and doing. The new year
will start off politically with confer
ence of the Progressive party to be
held at Columbus Jan. 8. At this con-
ference, planned as a sort of get
together mass meeting of the rank and
file as well as the leaders of the party,
new state platform will be discussed
for the coming campaign and candi-
dates for state Office on the Progress
sive ticket will be talked over There
is good deal Of gossip to the effect
that the Progressives will consider the
question of endorsing statewide pro-
hibition and joining this with the issue
of woman suffrage, to which they al
ready are committed, but what really
will be done at the conference is now
problematical. On the heels of the
Progressive meeting will come the con-
ference of the state central committee
OF the Republican party for the pur-
pose of discussing plans to carry out
in Ohio the suggestions of the Repub-
lican national conference and to con-
slider proposals for get-together con-
ference of Republicans Of the state.
/ The special session of the general
Special Session of Assembly.
assembly will begin on the 18th and
will occupy the political arena for at
least four weeks. The plan in admin
| istration circles was first to limit the
session to three weeks, but it is gener-
ally conceded now that this can hardly
be accomplished. However, the aim
| of the administration will be to keep
the assembly within four weeks, and
subjects that will be considered is
! being narrowed. AS nearly as can be
predicted now, the scope of the admin
istration program will be limited to
reorganization of the school system,
abolition of the screen basis for the
! payment of miners, safeguarding" Of
the initiative and referendum, revis-
ing the 1914 state budget, providing
for the primary nomination of candi-
dates for United States senator and
the making of plans to prevent another
such flood disaster as occurred last
spring.
After the general assembly will
come the active campaign for state,
county, congressional and legislative
campaigns. The campaign for United
States senator already has begun, but
it will take on new impetus when the
assembly session is out Of the way
The various campaigns in the county
will add their quota of interest to the
general situation, and the fact that
the Progressives will have candidates
for every Office will not take from the
| general interest.
Not of least Importance, though last
mentioned, will be the suffrage cam
paign. On New Years day the peti
tions for initiating the proposed con
stitutional amendment giving Ohio
women the ballot will be circulated
and no one doubts that the no. 900 sig
natures required will be secured. Non
congress, the general assembly, and
state and county offices are likely te
be confronted with a serious alterna
tive, for suffrage leaders are planning
to place every candidate on record az
either for or against their cause.
Main Market Roads.
1t will require total of $35,000,00
to give the state of Ohio an ideal sys
tenn of complete intercounty and mair
market roads, according to State High
way Commissioner James R. Marker
J This amount, Mr.. Marker says, viii
give the Buckeye state the best wagoI
roads in the United States. The Ohit
Good Roads federation have made
} their aid the construction of such /;
J finished series of roads and highway
} that the Ohio farmer or autoist coul(
start at one end of the state and driv,
straight to the other end without en-
countering a single mud hole.
II Threaten to Bring Suit.
Wholesale and retail drug interests
of Ohio are threatening to bring sui
|; to enjoin the state agricultural com
| mission from enforcing the new Law
requiring the payment of license fe
by persons who sell fungicides an,
, insecticides. Wholesale druggist
, argue that, under the statutes, the,
, would be obliged to pay approximate,
$4,000 a year into the state treasury
and they hold that this would be suffi
cient to exclude them from sellin.
J these articles at all.
Are Prisoners Being "coddled?"
Are the inmates of Ohio pena
institutions being 'coddled'?" is tn,
question which some county prosecu