The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-04-06
MEN CHOSEN
over NIGHT
To Administer The Important
Taxing System
No Inquiry Made As To
Character And Fitness
Desire Simply To Rake In A
Lot Of Offices
Liquor License Positions Next
To Be Gone After
Apparently Jobs Is Chief Aim
Of The Administration

Columbus, o., April 3--lf there was
anything else in the mind of Governor
Willis other than to make spoils OF
the taxing system it has not been
made apparent. Not only has he re-
moved men who had the experience of
a successful operation of the Warnes
law, but he removed men who had
been chosen after months of investiga-
ton to find the best possible servants
and what is of worse consequence he
has filled the vacancies with men
chosen over night, without considera-
ton of qualification or examination of
character. Luck has been with the
governor or with the people in some
cases and Republicans have been chos-
en- who are worthy and who will give
good account of themselves, but in
majority of cases men have been chos-
en- because they were satisfactory to
Peter Durr, the Cincinnati dealer, or
those who fought the former governor
in his own party. In Franklin county
the appointment went to man VINO
was pleasing because he had attended
school at Ada, thing that the regulars
in Columbus had neglected because
they had university at home. In an
other county he named good young
scout who has always held some ap-
pointive job that did not require much
work, but whose principal qualification
is ability to blow foam consistently
from six o'clock in the morning until
CLOSING time" at night. In still anoth-
er county both his appointees are
Jokes, one book-maker and the other
lawyer without a case, and already
the business people of the county are
protesting and asking the Democratic
auditor to lend his assistance in get
ting a duplicate. Down in Hamilton
county John Washburn is a comeback
and he, it will be remembered, was
one of the paving commissioners who
worked SO satisfactorily for George
b. Cox, and of course is aligned with
the old Cox-Guilbert-McKinn crowd,
of whom j. H. McGiffert on the state
commission is the leading representa-
tive, ably seconded by Edward Fullin'
ton. For pure machine construction
the twenty.four hour job of Willis, Durr
and Co. stands above all records.
II stand now on the liquor question
just where ! stood during my cam
paign" boasts Governor Willis. And
the Plain Dealer editorially says Cones
guess is as good as another's as to
where Mr.. Willis stands" Further.
more it is whispered around the state
house that there will be no attempt at
decentralization of the liquor traffic
this session, but that the governor
hopes to slip along somehow until next
fall, when he fervently hopes the peo
pie in voting on a prohibition amend
ment will take the matter out of his
hands. The extent to which matters
have gone in the leaderless general as
sembly was shown last week wher
the first liquor regulation bill was eff
fectually put to sleep by the vets. L
now appears that it is orders from ad
ministration headquarters that none o
the decentralizers suitable to the dry
are to be put to vote. 1t might Great,
embarrassments. So the word has gon'
down the line that an extra session
will be called later il 1t appars neces
sary to consider the undesirable liquo
decentralization as promised.
The vets in the Republican senat
sent the Vollenweider label law dow
for the count and then stood 1t u
against the ropes and knocked 1t ou
again. Meanwhile Wayne 3. Wheele
ambled about with the same effective
ness he did last fall when the wet leat
ers ran circles around him and pu