The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-09-24
FIDELITY Of
HAMILTON
Cost Him Sum Of $1,000 Per
Year
Was Loyal When Others FeaI-
ty Wavefed
Sought Position He Was DUAL.
flied To Fiji
II Was Given To One Who
Was FaithIeSS
And A Bone Was Tossed To
Hamilton

Many Mt. Vernon people are well
acquainted with George H. Hamilton
and they will be much interested in an
experience he has had, as related by
the Columbus Dispatch as follows:
George H. Hamilton of Newark, sec.
retary of the Republican state central
committee, is scratching his head and
doing some serious thinking. One ques-
tion that he is giving very thoughtful
consideration to is whether it pays to
be regular.
During the dark, dank days in 1912,
when one Theodore Roosevelt and his
ardent followers were doing their level
best to steer the Republican ship
straight onto the rocks and to scut-
tie it, Hamilton was one of the faith
full members of the old crew that stuck
to the craft and helped Harry NJ.
Daugherty, who was then in command,
to keep her from going to the bottom
But for Daugherty and his valiant aids
there would probably be no Republican
party in Ohio today.
Naturally, Hamilton, who for many
years has been an active Republican,
laboring in season and out of season
to promote its interest, expected that
some fitting reward would come to him
sooner or later in recognition of his
effective, loyal service. During the
campaign last fall, Mr.. Hamilton, who,
although you might not suspect it pos
sesses poetic temperament, and a
brand of eloquence that can bring an
audience to tears, went up and down
the state and from one side to the 9th
er, telling in pathetic verse and prose-
what Frank B. Willis would do for
the betterment of humanity If made
chief executive.
He sounded the praises of the Ada
man in poems of his own composition,
and wept when occasion required to
produce the desired effect upon his
hearers. Hamilton was supposed to
help line up the labor vote, and he
had some foxy stuff which he always
pulled when talking to working men
which always made a hit. AS indicat-
ed, George felt that as it has been the
custom in the past to reward the patri-
OTIS who put the ball across the plate
for the party, that he was warranted in
asking the Willis administration for
something, and he did
the office of workshop inspector would
suit him nicely. 1t pays $4,000 year.
About the same time that George be-
gan the pursuit of this job, Attorney
George w. Bope of Columbus focused
his eye on it. Now it will be remem-
bered that in the good old days in
1912, when Teddy and his noisy fol-
lowers tried to wreck the Republican
party, Bope deserted the Republican
reservation and, body and breeches,
joined Teddy and his gang and aided
them as best he knew how in their
murderous designs upon the Grand Old
Party.
Bope went through the West on a
speecb-making tour, denouncing the
Republicans and calling them every
thing he could lay his tongue to al
lowable under the law and expressing
the hope that the Republican candidate
would be buried so deep under an
avalanche of votes that he woul never
be heard of again.
After a while Bope forgot what he
had said about the Republican party
and returned to it's fold. He realized
that the attempts of the Progressives
and himself to sink the Republican
ship were futile and that the former
would soon become non-existent He
rowed back to the vessel he had tried
to scuttle, clambered aboard and join
ed the crew again.
In due time he took an inventory