The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-10-12
UNbECOMING
CONDUCT.
Charged Against Factory In
SpectOf BOpe
Said To Have Looked Booze
In The Face
But Millef'S Booze Perform.
ance Is Overlooked
So Question Of Discrimination
Is Raised
In The Attitude Of The 'Good'
Administration

Columbus, O., Oct. 9--After appoint
ing George Bope, q lawyer and musi-
clan, as factory inspector, the Willis
boy scouts have had charges prepared
against him for unbecoming conduct,
intimating that he had been partaking
too freely of certain viands so as to
make q spectacle of himself. Well,
tie long suffering public seems to be
on Bope's side, having in mind the ex-
ample set by the eleven-gizzards gov
ernor, and the Green River bunch at
San Francisco. Bope has been asked
to resign, but no such action has been
taken against Newt. Miller, the Green
River Managing Director Of the Ohio
building at the Panama exposition.
The discrimination, perhaps, lies in
the fact that Bope does not claim that
he took the booze for medicinal pur-
poses, as Miller asserted he did. The
good" administration of Gov. Willis
should treat all it's appointees alike on
the booze proposition.
o.
Certain Republican leaders - and
United States Senators Warren G.
Harding and Theodore Burton are not
the lest of them-have been making
demogogic addresses upon all Occa-
sions presenting themselves, their en-
deavor being to demonstrate that this
country is unprepared for war and
that President Wilson and the Demo-
cratic party are to blame for this con-
dition. 1t is wise that every citizen
of Ohio, no matter what his partisan
afiliation, should read this calm, dig
nified and frank statement from the
Cleveland Leader, the premier party
mouthpiece of the Republican party
In Ohio:
"There is a manifest inclination on
the part of two or three Republican
leaders of national influence to try to
place the blame for the country's un-
preparedness upon the Wilson admin
instration and the late Democratic
congress. That is an error which the
Republican party cannot afford to be
led into. While the Democratic party
has manifested extreme opposition to
military defense for the country the
fact should be borne in mind that 1t
has not been In control in Washing.
ton for much more than two yeras.
During the fourteen years preceding
that time the Republicans exercised
unbroken authority in both houses OF
Congress and in the White House. 1t
was then, even more than in the past
two years, the preparation now so evil
IDENTIFY needed, should have been made.
But neither the Republican party nor
the Democratic party should be blam-
ed. The fault lies with the American
people as whole, for the national
armament is practically what they
wanted 1t to be. The question is not
one Of politics. 1t is of national
awakening to danger"
Open interference of the Willis ad
ministration in the affairs of Colum
bus has proven Of uncertain value tc
those It was intended to aid. The story
of the attempt to get non-partisan can
didates to withdraw in the interest Of
Albert e. Sartain who is favored by
the Willis administration for mayor
was told the other day by one of the
six Republican candidates. He was In
dignant So were others who had like
wise been approached but feared t.
tell what they knew of the effort OF thu
Statehouse crew to run municipal poll
tics. Democrats of Columbus are de
lighted with the situation. 1t mean
that Democratic candidates will ge
the benefit of the unpopularity of Gov
ernor Willis. which is pretty nearly a
good an asset as the successful recor