The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1915-10-29
POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT
A MATTER OF
COMMON SENSE
Long Terms in County Offices
Spells Efficiency and
Economy

The arguments in favor of this
Amendment are legion, and it tends to
better Public service.
l. 1t cuts OUR election expense.
2. 1t eliminates Political turmoil.
8. 1t means less frequent County
Elections.
A. 1t means big saving to the peo-
pie, in election expense, in schooling"
new officers every years, and in clerk
hire while officials campaign for re-
election.
5. 1t puts the county on basis of
the private business concern. A bank
or railroad would consider it industrial
suicide to change managers, fOremen.
and workmen every two years. In
stability never begets efficiency.
6. 1t separates county and national
elections. Presidential campaigns
should not OvershadOw county prob
lens. More attention should be
paid to the MAN and less to the party
in county affairs. To secure this sep
aration, terms of incumbents must
either be shortened or heightened. The
4 Ohio Law prohibits shortening an Of
ficials term after he is elected, SO the
only possible alternative is to lengthen
the term Of those now in Office.
J Z. 1t gives time to Judge an officers
worth. To-day you have less than a
year to Judge. You are asked to en-
dOrse an administration, before it has
a chance to demonstrate its ability.
This is unfair to both officials and to
the voters.
| 8. A long tenure produces better SER
vice. Probate Judges have A years.
Federal Judges, Ohio Supreme Court
judges, Common Pleas Judges, and
United States Senators are elected for
6 years. You elect county officials
three times during the same period.
If longer terms spell efficiency for
those who make and interpret laws, it
means efficiency for those who admin
lister the laws.
| 9. It is public and not political
measure. 1t was conceived by pri-
vate citizens. 1t is absolutely non par
tisan. and all political parties endorse
it on its merits. 1t is not backed by
any party, machine or political organ
izatiOn.
10. 1t is plain economy versus pre-
judice. Obstructionists have sought
to discredit this reform by arousing
prejudice against present incumbents.
4 They forget that no doubt the same
men elected at the last election, would
likewise have been elected had the
term then been four years. Officials
i, will get nothing more now, than what
we would have then willingly given
them. One A year term is infinitely
i better than the common custom Of
1.-TWO Terms for the Asking" Yes
: talk the matter over with wOur .ex.
: county officials. They are not inter.
/ ested, and yet they are boosting thu
: amendment. They know it means q
4 big saving. They Know.
e II. The possibility Of abuse has beer
removed by law. A state bureau in
spects every county officials act
State Examiners are at Medina now
and have been here for months. More
over, the "Recall" may be passed an
7. time it is needed.
= IL. The FOur-year-term is a prove,
: success. It obtains today in Pennsyl
vannia, Illinois. Connecticut, Missouri
Delaware, Colorado, Minnesota, Mis-
' sissippi, North Carolina, Nebraska
: . Maine, South Carolina. South Dakota
Oregon. New Jersey, Alabama, Indi
ana, Montana, Virginia, West Virgin
y Ia, Tennessee and California, in shor
:. the states which have the creates
population, industries and wealth.
I THINK THIS PROPOSED AMEND
e MENT OVER AND NO MAN Can
e HELP BUT BE A BOOSTER"
d E. N. McCULLOUG, M. G
Worthington, 0