The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-06-24
USE FALSEHOOD
TO MAKE NEWS
Disregard For Truth ,charac-
teristic of Democratic Bureau
MEASUREMENT THE RULE
"A Few Specimens Of Thousand Fabrl-
cations, Alleged to Be News, Sent
Partisan Papers BY conspirators to
sesmireh Willis Administration.

Besmtreh Willis Administration.
Columbus. -(Special) The short
and ugly word is impolite in print, as
elsewhere, therefore the following,
quoted sentences from the Cox-Finley
press bureau should be called "menda-
cious fabrications."
| The civil service is ripped to
pieces, and Willis is being made into
| the chief saloonkeeper of the state
ana hghung hardest for the job"
But every reader of the news knows
that the Legislature substituted for
the fake civil service which fixed po-
litical appointees upon the payroll per-
manently without a test of compare
tive merit, a real competitive civil
service, such as is demanded by the
new constitution, and created a BIZ
partisan board to enforce it, in the
Cox commission, composed of two
Democrats and a Bull Moose The
reader knows, too, that the same press
now in charging that Willis acted the
brutal boss in forcing the enactment
of the McDermott bill which took the
licensing power from his hands
Letters of complaint are being re-
celVed in Columbus at what is a pal
pable attempt to further the personal
aims of Governor Willis and others
under guse of good roads promotion.
Plate has been sent broadcast and
used by many papers before they
scanned the contents 1t now appears
that it was joint promotion plate for
the latter having senatorial ambi-
tions 1t is not stated whether 1t is
paid for by, the state, but it is known
the Republican Committee is still
some $4,000 shy en- the campaign ac-
count and Willis refuses to endorse
any share of the payment"
To cover FIVE false statements and
poisonous suspicion into one para
7 graph shows a kind of ability which,
fortunately, is rare The plate matter
referred, to was issued by the secre-
Uary of the goou rUaus Urgn44iuatiea,
Mr.. Olsdorff, recently a Democratic
Senator; it does not promote" either
|. Willis or Cole, and Mr.. Donahey, the
Democratic Auditor, would not issue a
warrant for such payment even il
some one made himself liable to the
penitentiary by issuing a voucher for
it,
The Republican Committee owes but
$1,S0Q, and Governor Willis paid a gen.
erous share of the $4,000 soon after
the campaign closed-but that's the
business of nobody outside the Repub-
lican Central Committee.
Laws have been passed weakening
the people against the utility inter-
ests.
Every news service from the capital
has carried, more than once, the fact
that the public utilities corporations
got nothing from the Legislature and
are abusing the Governor OF the six
bills they had introduced, from the
Behne bill to the Jackson bill, every
one was defeated To say anything
damaging of the acts of the 81st Gen
eral Assembly one must falsify facts
The most damaging and damnable
charge made by the Cox-Finley bureau,
in its effort to discredit the Republican
administration, was its story of the
lobby in which 1t said:
THE scum of the earth, the NAL
mi a. mn limo
into their own"
The lobbyists who were in Columbus
throughout the session and worked to-
gether were two ex-Republican office
holders, Kirkby, of Toledo, and We'll
rker, of Canton; John O'Dwyer, Toledo,
Vice Chairman Democratic State Cen
trail Committee; Joe Bowling, personal
/ representative of James NJ. Cox in
Montgomery county; VIM. Mason,
/ State Inspector of Oils under Harmon,
registered for the brewers Milton
Warnes, Democratic whip in the pre-
vious General Assembly; Otto Renner,
head of the Liberal League; Lewie
Bernard, the Seasy boss" of Cincin-
natl in Harmon's time and again now;
Frank Thomas, member of Democratic
State Central Committee from Wood
county; Ben Mckinney, for a time
Democratic Oil Inspector, and Harry
Wilson, the veteran professional who
Was a delegate to the Democratic Ma
tional Convention at Denver. These
men were the only ones who were in
Columbus throughout the session.
They constituted the Lobby Trust to
which Governor Willis issued public
warning
Governor Willis is said to be
squafely behind one proposition that
has been offered for Consideration in
the Eighty-hr general assembly.
That proposition Is for four years
| more of Willis, to be secured under
constitutional change which would
make the terms Of ONCE of elective
state osncials run four years instead
of two"
80 soon as this proposition appeared
the governor asked that it be killed,
and it was.
Refusal OF the administration to
provide means to continue road work
iR Ohio may keep many counties In
the mud for some time 70 come
superintendent Of Highways Marker,
haVing let contracts for $4,000, 900 az
read building for which there was 10
money provided the Legislature, by
the Etling BILL transferred that amount
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