Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-07-08
THE REPUBLICANS
HAVE made GOOD
Every Platform and Campaign
Promise Kept Fully
RECORD OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Popular Government Has Displaced
Autocracy, the Saloon Licenses Will
Be Issued BY County officers, and
the Voters Will Choose Assessors.

Columbus. -(SpeciaD-EI the Re-
publican party in good faith and eifec-
lively kept the promises which Sc
cured for it return to power in the
state? Has 1t corrected the abuses its
platform condemned?
The important paragraphs in that
instrument are quoted below and com
ment added:
THE Republicans of Ohio con-
demn the present State Executive
for his assumption of autocratiC
powers; for his usurpation of the
legislative functions; for having
used his official prerogatives to
create n gigantic machine; for his
creation of many useless Offices
and commissions; for his trifling
with Civil Service"
The legislature has taken from the
governor the autocratic power to re-
move every state employe and control
of the amounts paid each for services.
Hereafter positions will be filled from
lists of those who win in the merit
contest before a bipartisan civil serv-
ice commission.
Control of the right to operate a sa-
loon has been taken from the eXecu-
tive and given to officials elected To-
cally. The state jobs now properly
under civil service are no longer in
the governors gift and useless officers,
except those fixed In position by
statute of the Cox legislature, have
been removed.
I'VE arraign the socalled
Warnes law for it's fagraut viola
tion of the principle of local self
government. We condemn the
taxation policy of the Cox admin
istration which seeks to increase
revenue rather than to curb eX-
penditures."
The Parrett-Whittemore law returns
to the electorate the choosing of tax as.
SCISSORS next year. Governor Cox took
that power to himself.
1--WE denounce the so-called Kill
patrick law for its destruction of
the wise provisions OF the Smith
one per cent law"
The Fitzpatrick law was repealed and
the governor was adamant against
public improvements or the plea of
impoverished cities for laws which
might jeopardize the Smith one per
cent tax limit.
1--WE not only favor the work
mans compensation law, which
we participated in enacting, but
We favor the increase in the maxi.
mum amount to be paid for death
and total disability under said
law"
No one of the thousand and one
falsehoods uttered by the Democratic
press bureau has been repeated so
often as the warning to workmen that
the Republicans would destroy the
compensation law of Governor Cox.
This statement contained double de-
ceit.
The workmen's compensation law,
as it now stands, was enacted by Re-
publican votes and signed by Govern.
or Harmon. A commission in which
organized labor, the manufacturers as
sociation and the state each had a rep.
resentative investigate the question in
America and Europe and reported the
bill. But the Democratic press today
is crying out IF Willis puts Repub-
lican on the industrial commission it
will destroy workmen's compensa-
tion."
The promise to increase the death
and total disability benefits was not
kept because the manufacturers and
working mems organizations united to
ask that no change in awards be made
till more experience is had.
I'VE pledge the Republican par
ty to discourage unE acessary local
expenditures and to restore an
economical management of state
affairs by abolishing all unneces-
sary Offices and commissions"
All legislation which would increase
local expenditures was defeated or We.
toed
A number of offices and commits
sions We're abolished but many of
them are protected from removal by
constitutional amendment and by
statutes enacted with a view to keep
the political lieutenants of the late
governor on the state payroll till the
campaign next year when Mr.. Cox ex.
poets again to run for governor.
The Cass highway bill is the largest
piece of constructive legislation that
has been enacted in Ohio for many
years. 1t recodihes and revises a 1nul
titude of laws enacted piecemeal, re.
duces them in volume, and puts them
into language that even the layman-
be he farmer, mechanic or merchant
may read and understand. The state
highway commission is to have the
legitimate direction of the main mar
ket roads Of the state, thus preserving
the unity of the state road system
without the undue and dangerous cen
tralization of power at Columbus
which marked former laws. The coun
ty secures greater local control by rea
son of the fact that, under the new
law, the county surveyor becomes
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