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So CLEARLY
ESTABLISHED
Is Willis AppOintees COnneC.
tiOn with Referendum
On The MCDGrmOtt Liquor
License Law
That The Governors Talk Is
Very Ridiculous
California Newspaper Hands
Out Hot One
On OhiO'S Official RepreSen-
tatiVe At Fair

| Columbus, o., Aug. 31-The referen-
DUN on the McDermott liquor license
act is being perfected. Judge Kerr,
Republican, Senator Moore's law part
ner, in charge of the circulation of pc
titions, says that many more names
will be secured than are needed The
connection of the Willis appointees on
the state liquor license board is so
clearly established that the county APP
pointees in general have had no hesi-
fancy in backing the work and it has
apparently been an easy matter thus
far to get signatures. Yet the Willis
appointees for public consumption say
| they have no connection with the ref
erendum, and Willis works himself in
to an undignified and mdicrous rage,
| because the public is not as gullible
as he himself seems to be. His situa-
ton has not been helped any by the
frank and honest avowal of Democrat
as a Democrat and an individual deal
ing with individuals, is interested be.
cause he believes the present system
to be best, for this avowal makes it i'm
possible for Willis to make a goat of
Clendening. The activity of the gov
ernor's appointees, in the face of the
| governors threat to discharge any en-
| ploye of his found aiding and abetting
the work, makes the executives posi-
tion farcical, and makes everyone
question the governors good faith in
denial of his own reputed connection.
Governor Willis says he has no evil
dence. Does he suppose that the coun-
ty license commissioners have acted
only on the authority of the Democrat
ic Clendening, when they know it takes
the support of the Republican Rose, or
the Republican Hay to make their
position secure even if the referen-
dunn be perfected?
AS reason for its being, the Column
bus Saturday Monitor alleged long
felt want for a clean, honest, Repub-
lican newspaper in Columbus, which
would give the people the truth at all
times. Here is paragraph from it's
recent issue which speaks louder than
| its own trumpet
Mrs. Frank B. Willis accompanied
Governor Willis to Boston to attend
the governors's conference, which was
held in that city, August Gath to 9th"
This is a deliberate deception or an
inexcusable asininity. While other
states We're honorably represented by
their chief executives, Ohio's full of
gizzards" governor was tramping
around the state to farmers picnics
where there were no hotel bills to pay.
And for his neglect of the states in.
terest in this matter the papers of the
state roundly berated Governor Will
lis. Now the question! Is this para
graph from the much needed and
truthful Monitor an alibi to be called
into use when needed on the stump?
Dismissing with a sentence the ex-
travagance of the Panama-Pacific Elk.
position Commission of Ohio, and the
undesirable publicity Newton M. Miller
has brought on the state with his bac-
chanalian purchases, the Oakland
(Cal) Tribune, hands Governor Willis
one right between the eyes. EDITORIAL
ly, among other things, it says:
THE whole trouble with the Ohio
situation at the fair lies in the char
acter of the commissioners whom Gov
ernor Willis appointed to represent
the state. Ohio is one of the very i'm
portant states of the union, yet its
representation at the fair is of Who'll
ly colorless, unimportant and negli.
g!ble character. AS matter OF fact,