The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-06-17
THE REPUBLICANS
HAVE MADE GOOD
Every Platform and Campaign
Promise Kept Fully
RECORD OF Accomplishments
Popular Government Has Displaced
Autoeracy, the Saloon Licenses VIII
Be Issued BY County Officers, and
the Voters VIII Choose Assessors.

Columbus.-(S (Special)-Has the Re-
publican party in good faith and effec-
lively kept the promises which Sc
cured for it return to power in the
state? Has 1t corrected the abuses its
platform condemned?
The important paragraphs in that
instrument are quoted below and COM
ment added:
"The Republicans of Ohio con-
denim the present State Executive
for his assumption of autocratic
powers; for his usurpation of the
legislative functions for having
used his official prerogatives to
create gigantic machine; for his
creation of many useless Offices
and commissions; for his trifling
with Civil Service"
The legislature has taken from the
governor the autocratic power to re-
move every state employe and control
Of the amounts paid each for services
Hereafter positions will be filled from
lists of those who win in the merit
contest before bipartisan civil serv-
ice commission.
Control of the right to operate a sa-
loon has been taken from the execu-
tive and given to officials elected To-
cally. The state jobs now properly
under civil service are no longer in
the governors gift and useless officers,
except those fixed in position by
Cfu utIIfn nF hn 1of
been removed,
I'VE arraign the socalled
Warnes law for it's hagraut viola
ton of the principle of local self
government. We condemn the
taxation policy of the Cox admin
istration which seeks to increase
revenue rather than to curb ex-
penditures"
| The Parrett-Whittemore law returns
| % the electorate me choosing OF tax as
sessofs next year Governor Cox took
that power to himself.
I'VE denoupce the so-caIled Kill
! patrick law for it's destruction of
the wise provisions of the Smith
one per cent law"
The Fitzpatrick law was repealed and
the governor was adamant against
public Improvements or the plea of
impoverished cities for laws which
might jeopardize the Smith one per
cent tax limit
"We not only favor the work
mans compensation law, which
we participated in enacting, bu.
We favor the increase in the maxi
mum amount to be paid for death
and total disability under said
law"
No one of the thousand ana one
falsehoods uttered by the Democratic
press bureau has been repeated so
often as the warning to workmen that
the Republicans would destroy the
compensation law of Governor Cox.
| This statement contained double de-
| ceit.
The workmen's compensation law,
as it now stands, was enacted by Re-
| publican votes and signed by Govern
or Harmon. A commission in which
| organized labor, the manufacturers as
sociation and the state each had rep
resentative investigate the question in
America and Europe and reported the
bill. But the Democratic press today
is crying out IF Willis puts Repub-
lican on the industrial commission it
will destroy workmen's compensa-
tion."
The promise to increase the death
and total disability benefits was not
kept because the manufacturers and
working mems organizations united to
ask that no change in awards be made
till more experience is had.
1--WE pledge the Republican par
ty to discourage unE 4cessary local
expenditures and to restore an
economical management of state
affairs by abolishing all unneces-
sary offices and commissions"
All legislation which would increase
local expenditures was defeated or ve-
| toed.
A number of offices and commits
sions were abolished but many of
them are protected from removal by
a constitutional amendment and by
statutes enacted with view to keep
the political lieutenants of the late
governor on the state payroll till the
, campaign next year when Mr.. Cox ex-
poets again to run for governor.
The Cass highway bill is the largest
piece of constructive legislation that
, has been enacted in Ohio for many
years. 1t recodifes and revises a mul.
titude of laws enacted piecemeal, re.
duces them in volume, and puts them
into language that even the layman-
be he farmer, mechanic or merchant
: may read and understand The state
highway commission Is to have the
legitimate direction of the main mar.
, ket roads Of the state, thus preserving
: the unity of the state road system
without the undue and dangerous cen.
} tralization of power at Columbus
which marked former laws. The coun'
! ty secures greater local control by rea.
son Of the fact that, under the new
| law, the county surveyor becomes
county highway superintendent, under
: direction Of the state commissioner
! Large economics, In salaries and over
, head expenses, win be effected and
. this money tngnaA 70 legitimate Haak
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