The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-02-02
How "Eesaomy" Is Practiced
In Governors Office
Where The Working Force
Has Been Greatly Increased


meeting q the finance committee Of
No Ohio legislature, attention is being
bronght to the fAlsity Of the Republic
an canApaign claims about deficit in
ne state treasury. and yet Governor
Willis has not seen At to make eorree-
tioa. Iadeed far from correcting the
fa1se Impression he helped to create
in his message to the legislature he en-
deavored to bolster up the charges.
Now; here are the facts. On January
II. the. day Mr.. Willis was inaugural
ed. the cash surplus In the general rev.
enue fund Of the state treasury was
$4,456,910.o7. On the day James NJ.
Cox became governor, the cash surplus
was 81 $50, ,42109. This was the amount
of actual cash with all the outstanding
appropriations deducted from the
fund, and does not include the
amounts belonging to the saloon IL
censiAg commission, the highway de-
fund, and the like. So that it will be
seen the last administration increased
the heritage. 1t Is now estimated that
the next two years will cost the gener-
al revenue fund somewhat more than
two millions in excess of the cost of
the past two years. SO that it will be
worth noting how the present admin
istration will stand when 1t has finish
ed and how it will explain its standing
satisfactory to those who are watch
ing eveats.
The Reverend Billy Sunday is sorry
for Cincinnati in view Of the political
liquor deal that was made there last
election for the success of home rule
and the Republican party. Expressing
sorrow, that he cannot give Cincinnati
an immediate date he says he feels
badly about the city. He says he con-
Quoted enough meetings in Ohio to get
the devil on the run but that now that
worthy has intrenched himself in Gin
cinnati According to the Reverend
Sundays figures, the territory in which
he worked gave dry majority of some
10000. and when "the vote got down to
that darned old town the devil got
busy and changed that majority into
an $4,000 vote victory for the rum deal
ers." and Willis became governor.
And now it appears that the Cincin-
natl delegation in the general assem-
bly, knows what it is about and that 1t
is wisely led, consistently following in
structious of those who made the deal
which the Reverend Sunday so greatly
deplores.
The first knock which put the civil
service law out of business In Ohio
came from Governor Willis, himself,
and an opinion of Attorney General
Turner backed up the law-breaking.
The employees in the Governors Office
are under civil service, excepting the
private secretary, yet new set of
Republican Office seekers have been re-
warded. That the change is not for ef-
ficiency Is shown in the fact that the
old force is being retained to educate
the new and the taxpayers are footing
the bill out of the contingent fund. In
addition to Private Secretary Upton,
'saiary $1,000, there is Executive Clerk
Edwards. salary, $4,000; Correspond
ence Clerk Dodds, salary $1,000; Com
mission Clerk Garner, salary $500.
Then Governor Willis has borrowed to
care for patronage. the senate stenog-
rapher, Miss White. salary $1.SOO-and
this is work purely of the Republican
committee; and there is another stem
ograPher salary $840. Besides the
foregoing, Governor Willis is duplicat-
ing every Office and retaining as
schoeimasters for his new force d. H.
Peoples. executive clerk, T. Q. Niles,