The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-09
Special Columbus Correspondent.

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Hildebrant by the Democratic state
committee. The petition contains 75,-
92S names, about 5000 more than were
needed. 1t was filed by State Chair
man w. L. Finley. Lucas county had
the largest number of names, $500,
and Adams the lowest with So Cuya-
hoga gave 1892 and Hamilton 5,S21.
The counties in which the most names
were obtained were: Mahoning 2,505,
Montgomery 2,2O6, Stark 1,7S2, Summit
1886, Franklin 1,141, Wayne 1,077,
Jefferson 1,525, Butler 1884, Colum-
biana 587, Crawford 2,1S5, Marion
1,45S, Sandusky 1880, Erie 9S3 and
Trumbull $40. The petition is made up
of separate petitions from each county
These petitions will be sent to county
election boards by the secretary OF
state for comparison and to establish
the sufficiency of the names. Under
the law each board will examine each
name and determine if it is genuine
and will also count the total number to
ascertain that the required number OF
signatures has been obtained to war
rant the secretary of state in sub
mitting to the people at the November
election the question of whether or not
the Sprague bill, apportioning the state
into new congressional districts, shall
become law. The Democrats object
to the measure, declaring that if the
state is redistricted in accordance with
its provisions that they will only be
left with two sure Democratic congress
sional districts. This referendum is
the first instance in which the initia
tive and referendum has been used tC
hold up the operation of a law, omit
ting the referendums started to knock
out the tax law and workmen's com
pensation in 1913, which was declared
bogus and thrown out
Conference of Republican Leaders.
The conference of Republican lead
ers, state and local, held here Thurs
day, decided that such conferences
shall be yearly features hereafter, held
always during the week of the state
fair. The attendance was a surprise
to the persons who projected it, espe,
cially the representation of the county
committees. The hall at the Virginia,
in which it was held, resembled an old.
time convention. Gov. Willis said in
the course of his speech: 1--WE are get,
ting the Democrats out, and that work
is to be continued vigorously" This
statement was greeted with enthusi-
astic applause. The address of Senator
Harding was short and evidently Who'll
ly eXtemporaneous. He dealt with the
political situation in the state in a
very distant fashion. Gen. Charles
Dick made what seemed the most
earnest address Of the conference. He
said that if the Republicans wished to
carry the state next year they would
have to organize for it, and it was none
too early to begin the work of organic
ing right now. He placed himself on
record as believing implicitly in party
organization. Former Congressman
Ralph D. Cole confined himself mainly
in his short speech to the discussion
of our present foreign relations. Talk
ing to the grangers at the state fair
grounds, Gov. Willis referred to the
grange as the pioneer in legislative
and administrative reforms. Out OF
the rural element of the population had
come both popular election of United
States senators and the statewide pri
mary election.
Deaf but Misses Nothing.
Denver Williams of Wilmington
now 20 years old, who has been totally
deaf since he was two years old, will
enter the college of agriculture in the
Ohio State university next month tC
take the entire four years course. He
was taught to talk and to read by the
lip movements in an eastern institu
ton, entered Wilmington college, from
which he graduated as an honor stu
dent last June, meriting in all his
studies Besides being an honor stu
dent he was an athletic star at Will
mington, playing regularly and with
great success on both the football and
basketball teams. So adept has he be
come in the art of lip reading that by
taking a position in the class room
where he can see both the face of the
instructor and the faces of the mem
bers of the class he can rapidly fol
low the exercises and miss nothing OF
what transpires, so that he stands In
no need of an interpreter.
Horse Show Attractive Feature.
The horse show given as a feature of
the state fair this year has proved
such an attractive one-far exceeding
the expectations of the projectors in
its drawing capacity-that the state
board of agriculture has already de-
cided to put on such show next year
on national scale; that is, with a
prize list that will attract the owners
of horses in other and distant states.
Old Familiar Faces Appear.
Faces which were familiar at the
state house in former Republican days
are beginning to appear there again.
Secretary of State Hildebrant brought
two members of the "old guard" back
when he Wednesday appointed Edward
J. Hummel of Cincinnati and Thomas
Cook to places in his office. Hummel
was in the secretary of states office
during the LaS.in and Thompson ad-
ministrations. Cook was in the auto
mobile department, which is part of
the secretary of states office, during
the Thompson regime.
Jobs Would Be Placed in Jeopardy.
Unless the courts tie up the opera
ton of the new civil service law,
which is scheduled to go into effect
many scores of Democratic
Office holders in various state depart
ments will find themselves jobless and
their places filled by Republicans after
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