The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-10-05
PRACTICE
Of NE1P0TIsM.
By The New State Inspector
Who Appoints His Son To A
Deputyship
While He Is Attending A
Cleveland School
Finds Parallel In Job Given
To Buell.
And Made At Instance Of The
Governor
And Made At Instance Of The
T Governor

SOlumUuS, O.s OCI. A-OtdIO VII III
spector j. M. Carr's son, a youth, is a
student in the law school at Western
Reserve University in Cleveland. I'm
der the rules he is required to attend
the prescribed classes and submit to
examinations at stated intervals. Yet
his appointment at his fathers hands
as deputy inspector at $1,000 year
has just been gazetted at Columbus.
This action might be attacked as
gross case of nepotism if the young
man were in position to give all of
his time to the duties of his office. But
the judgment against the deed will
have to be heavier because it is ap-
parent upon the surface of the trans
action that the employment is a thin
disguise for support by the state of
the young man while he is perfecting
himself to be admitted to the bar.
That's the plain English of it. In like
fashion State Inspector Carr has ap-
pointed as a deputy in Columbus, the
blood cousin of Governor Willis, Hugh
Buell., who had other occupation when
selected. The Carr family is doing
quite we'll under the new administra-
ton. Representative Van S. Deaton, of
Miami county, Republican, last winter
in the general assembly on the floor
openly charged that the father, in ad
dition to being the state inspector of
oil, also represented the school book
lobby in the fight against uniform text
books.
Quivering under the lashings from
all quarters of the state for its mis-
deds, the new state administration
whines that the criticism comes from
partisan sources and is unfair. This
is cowardly defense and untrue as
well. The Youngstown Telegram
which bodily demanded of Governor
Willis that he keep his hands off the
state public institutions, is edited by
member of the Republican state CEN
trail committee, Samuel G. Mcclure.
The Akron Beacon Journal, which
sharply called the administration to
account for the miserable financial
fiasco at the state fair, is edited by an
other member of the state central COM
mittee, G. L. Knight. The Sandusky
Register, long the Republican organ in
Erie county and along Lake Erie, can
not be accused of partisanship when 1t
utters this trenchant thing concern.
Z ing the state fair deficit and the gov
ernor's interference with citizens ex.
ercising their constitutional right to
take part in elections under the ini-
tiative and referendum:
Common business sense requires
that the Ohio state fair should pay its
own way without the state aid afford
ed it. There is no excuse for deficit
in connection with it. Those RESPONSE
BILE for it's conduct should be far-sight'
ed enough every year to see them
selves on the safe side of the financial
problem, and when they refuse to stay
on that side they should be removed
to give place to others better fitted fol
the work. If the state fair cannot con
tinue without deficit it should be
abolished and all the encouragement
it now receives turned into the coun
ty fairs which as a rule are governed
by sound business judgment. 1t Ii
quite possible that Governor Willis
may find more promising field fol
executive activity among boards thai
create deficits than among those whose
members are charged only with the OF
tense of participating in reeeren
dum"
1t now develops that the countr.
editor has again gotten the dirty ent
of the stick, and that II is his bills TO-
advertising which are going to remain