The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-07-16

5acrlnCeS on the part OF our IoTeIdtHelS
and which | feel is menaced by the
continuation of such rule by the Dem
ocratic party as we are now witness
ing.
81 believe in the rule Of the people.
I cant forget that about IS per cent
of the people earn their living by the
hardest kind of work, while II per
tent of them cam wear good clothes
md work in Offices and stores and but
! per cent live on the income Of Ia.
tested capital.
my sympathies run with the 81 per
rent. | believe the people want to and
should rule this country. | believe
that the day of bosses and controlled
politics is gone. | believe that the peo-
pie would rather govern themselves.
with all the mistakes and the extrav-
agance and waste that may result
sometimes and in some places. than
have perfect government under any
kind of an oligarchy.
And that is what we are facing.
Governor Cox's idea seems to be
that he knows more than the people
do as to what is good for them. He
is satisfied to be governor, legislature,
statehouse and mayor of all the cities.
on the theory that he can govern the
people much better than they can gov
ern themselves.
81 believe the people would rather
tnl- laor
by those mistakes than to be governed
perfectly, assuming that the Cox gov
| ernment is perfect, by Jimmy Cox or
anybody else.
"If should be elected governor of
Ohio should try to bring government
| back to the people believe deeply in
| the fundamental principles of the Re-
publican party. realize that certain
party leaders have made mistakes.
But the convictions of the party and
the rank and file of it's members are
sound and rational, advancing slowly
and surely to meet the changed needs
of new conditions. My idea of the du-
ties of the governor of the state would
be to help put these convictions Of the
people into effect as fundamental law.
This isn't Mexico. The people
have the intelligence and the training
to determine what they want. And
they are going to do it,"
David Tod has had an unusual ca
reer
Born in Youngstown of honored
stock, he was we'll educated and stud
led mechanical engineering at Purdue
and Sheffield Scientific school at Yale
university His studies were inter
rupted by the death Of his father,
William Tod, founder Of the William
Tod Machine company, of which David
Tod is now president, and he returned
to Youngstown to find the family af-
fairs rather involved. David Tod went
to work.
Now Mrs. David Tod, who is the
most consistent supporter that David
Tod has in Ohio, used to keep a scrap.
book 1t furnishes chapters of an in
teresting biography. One of the early
clippings tells how David Tod, man
ager of a certain cement company
had organized a new company and
would manage it.
The paper shows his picture, that OF
q boyish looking chap, and tells the
! story without any flourishes. The
, news apparently was not Of any great
, Industrial significance. The manager
of a company was starting factory
Of his own.
, "He asked for a raise of salary anC
didn't get it, so he quit" was the ex
planation l heard later
The new company was conspicu
Gus success. 1t paved the way for on,
. thing and another until David Tod
name carried financial weight II
Youngstown, and his assistance an
!. clear head was needed in a number O
big concerns.
n In speaking Of the Tod banks an
}. other holdings, it must not be inferre
" that he owns all Of these But he ha
4 substantial holdings in them and hi
4 value to them is attested by the fat
'. each of them He's wonder in bus
q ness. they say.
e But while making success in bus
d ness, David Tod didn't follow trad
q tional lines. He was a tradition buste
nj For instance:
He kept the respect and love of HI
employees. Few employers in th
,e state stand higher with their men tha
% David Tod with his employees. I'll
/, molders' union, Of whose members tt
,r Tod machine shop employs hundred
ID has indorsed his candidacy for COVE
n nor and is organizing a movement
IL urge union men all over the state
re support him.
at For instance, again-he didn't gro
fat and heavy joWled, build q marb
ID palace and find recreation In golf
q. highballs.
re- David Tod is slim WASTED, athlet
and boyish looking at forty-four. F
i. went out in the country for his hon
i" and spends most Of his time thel
n. For recreation he raised horses al
"a often drove them himself in races. I
m built one of the fastest quarter-mi
va tracks in the state, though there b
nd never been any public racing thel
81. because David Tod won't perm
ed liquor to be sold or books to be ma
at his tracks.
,e- "Tm getting too old-or something
te for baseball and never seemed
es take to golf. so found my recreati
nd with horses" he explains.
Oh One day in county fair at Raven
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