The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-09-26

THE "LlTTLE RED BOOK"
Now have an old friend here, the
Little Red Book of the campaign of
1914. A friend OF yours theE, but the
little fellow has turned states evi.
dence on you. daughter and ap.
plause) The governor will recognize
1t from its complexion, and I want
him to tell this intelligent audience,
holding, as these folks do, to the high
est principles aud theories of life, why
the author of the Little Red Book was
not printed on its cover. (Applausel
/ Certainly no one who ever knew the
author will believe his name was with.
held in modesty The governor may
say that this book was issued by the
so-called True Democracy league of
! Ohio. Granted. But this book and
the governor were as inseparable as
an Indian sduaw and a papoose all
through that campaign. Oaughter.l
And he can not discard it now. 1t
will nang to him in this campaign like
the smallpox. The author of this book
was Harvey CARRIER, probably the most
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anything about And if his name had
been printed upon it Frank 3. Villa
would have been defeated by 100000
! plurality. and he knows it, (Applause.)
Sponsors to the book are f. A. Craw.
ford of Adams Crawford's
grievance is this--that l did not re-
appoint him superintendent Of public
printing. He was holding that Office
when / went there, and l will tell you
why l did not appoint him. Just as
soon as symptoms appeared Of pros
ecutions for violation OF the election
laws in Adams county, Mr.. Crawford
rushed from Columbus and turned
states evidence. He got an immp-
nifty bath for himself and he gave to
the grand Jury evidence upon which
those deluded one thousand farmers
were subsequently convicted and dis
franchised. 1 did not want a man Of
that character on the pay rolls of the
state. (Applause)
1.-THE second, Mr.. Whitacre. is an
honest man. He was misled in that
campaign. and I challenge any one to
get the statement from him that he
ever subscribed his name to the book
or that ne believed then or believes
now that a single truth is contained
in it. The third sponsor is Louis Day
Of Ross county, VINO was subsequently
appointed on the utilities commission
through the influence that Lobbyist
CARRIER had with the governor Of the
state. That can not be denied
FALsiTY EXHIBITED.
"Now, what is the book? Here is
the picture of the state capitol. It
says: This good, roomy and substan-
tial old building has housed practi-
cally all state officers for over half n
century until the advent of Cox. Now,
nearly every skyscraper in Columbus
is crowded with the overflow of Cox
commissions and appointees.'
"My distinguished successor held
that book aloft to audiences; he
showed the pictures In it; he inferen'
TALLY conveyed that the state house
3 was big enough to take care of all the
state departments and that when he
was elected he would transfer them
back into the old state house and that
he would do away with so many Of
them tnat practically all of them
could be taken care of in the state
house. Now let us run through the
book. Here is a picture of the New
Hayden buildi-~, for which rent was
paid, 81 .S26--tV , or three rooms 1t
was tenanted by the oil inspector and
the fish and game commission. Gov
ernor Willis knows that these depart
ments we're created before | became
governor of Ohio. The Harrison build
ing is shown to contain a department
for which $4,000 in rent was paid. The
tenant of the state in that building is
the tax commission. That department
was created before I became COVER
nor. The New First National Bank
building contained the utilities com.
mission and the fire marshal's office
both of those departments created
years ago. The state bindery in the
old postoftice building was created
before Governor Willis was born
SLaughter.) And then we have the
Rose Iheater building They were
paying $3.50 rent for the purpose OF
taking care of the board of censors
that department of state created un
J der our administration for, the pur
pose Of saving your children, the
youth OF this state, from the obscene
! pictures that had been cast upon tht
Fcreens all over Ohio, until our pro
Cressive administration was inaug
} Irated. (Great applause)
"Now, then, our friend Willis
wac going to put all Of those Of
: fees over in the state house. We
were going to have an old Tom
jefferson administration. (Lauuh-
ter.) We were going to have that
; home-spun wool yarn stocking
economy we all heard so much
: about in 1914. And yet within the
last month MIR. willis has houqht
with your money the Wyandotte
buldlng--four times the size of
: the Chic state house---eleven
stories high, for the purpose OF
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