Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-09-08
OHIO REPUBLICAN
VOTERS ARE AWAKE
TO THE THREATENED DANGER
THAT .IMPERILs OUR INDUS
TRIAL WELFARE.
SHOWN BY PRIMARY RESULTS
That Democratic Voters Do Net Favor
Program of Washington Administra-
tlon-Ohioans In Accord With Eco
nomic and Efficient System.


Columbus, O.-To the thinking vo-
ter, no matter what his political afil-
iaticns, the result of the primary cleo
ton bears significance to the coming
election. That the Republicans OF
Ohio are awake to the fact that the
Industrial welfare of the country is in
danger, is shown by the vote given to
Hon. Myron T. Herrick for United
States senator, the people believing
that his experience as ambassador to
France gave him especial fitness to
render valuable service when the time
for readjustment comes. That the
Democrats who did go to the polls are
not in accord with the program now
being carried out in Washington is
]. Lentz, who opposed Senator Atlee
Pomerene The Pomerene vote was
101, ,806 and the vote of Lentz was
59,077. Pomerene is one of the sena-
tors in which President Wilson is
especially interested.
Another significant fact is that the
Republicans of Ohio are in thorough
accord with the honest, efficient and
economic administration of Governor
Willis, and that the Democrats of Ohio
care very little about who is the nom
inee for governor on their ticket. The
official vote shows Governor Willis
polled 106,462 more votes than James
NJ. Cox 1t shows that the total oppo-
sition vote to Governor Willis to be
but 40,513, while the total opposition
vote to Cox was 52,790. Governor
Willis carried every county. Former
| Governor Cox lost several counties to
| A. P. Sandles. The opposition vote to
Governor Willis, whose party cast
nearly twice as many votes for him
as the Democratic party did for Cox,
shows but 1S per cent. The @pposi-
ton to Cox was 28 per cent.
There is still another fact to be con-
sidered in the vote. That is the char
acter of the opposition to the Governor.
He had every disappointed off1ce-seek-
er's influence against him. The two
men who ran against him were disap-
pointed. Rudolph Mack, of Cincinnati,
wanted to be on the Board of Pardons
He was not appointed and Immediately
he saw wrong in the administration he
had heretofore upheld. His support
was from the Democratic camp, which
influence is urging him to be a candi
date this fall Mack can not hide be
hind the skirts of the Anti-Saloon
League in his canvass if he decides tc
be an Independent"
AS to Rudolph Mack.
Mr.. Mack, who submitted his candi
dacy for the governorship to the Re
publicans in the primary and received
eight per cent of the votes, now an
Governor Willis.
His announcement is in the form o
letter resigning official position il
the Anti-Saloon League to the statt
superintendent of that organization
Mr.. ]. A. White. The reason given fo
his becoming a candidate reads:
81 have been acquainted with and dis
tressed by the close working agree
ment between the present state admin
istration and the worst element il
Hamilton County"
This locates the worst elements" i
Cincinnati in the hilltop residenc
wards, for they were the only one
Willis carried and the Governor ha
but 1000 majority in Cincinnati, Will
other Republican candidates Lad II
600 to $4,000.
The resignation by Mack from offic
in the Anti-Saloon League is for new
paper use alone, his connection wit
that body having been severed lon
ago. When, to advance his intere!
: as a candidate for the Republican pr
, mary nomination, Mack claimed col
! nection with the League. State Supe
' inteDdent White gave out a statemel
repudiating Mack formally. This OF
cial statement was printed by the C
lumbus Citizen and throughout IL
: state, but not in the Columbus Journ
and Dispatch, owned by Mr. Robert
: Wolfe
His decision to run was given o.
Y after he, R. F. Wolfe's secret servi,
man, Matt Glaser, and a polite
u writer for Cox, had held conference
u in a room of the Neil House duril
four days. The intent evidently is
draw dry votes from Willis in the j
= terest of Cox, for he is making b
/ campaign for the governorship as
, did for the nomination, by chargil
Il that Gov. Willis is allowing who
e sale violation of the laws for the reg
J. lation of the liquor traffic to carry O
y a deal by which he got wet support
4 Cincinnati in the last state electic
u When the Cox newspapers print
this statement the liquor Iicensi
y board at Columbus sent eight inspe
II ors to the city. They asked Mack
} indicate saloons in which laws we
'e being violated. He did not name OF
III Mr.. Mack, during the first year
~ the Willis administration, was att
ney &C. the local Auti-Saloon Leag
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Reasonable Idea.
ps LIE Roy was being teased by +