The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1916-10-13

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 Mr.. willis has bought
with your money the Wyandotte
buldling-four times the size of
the Ohio state house-eleven
rtores high, for the purpose Of
iskiug care Of state departments.
IAp ause and laughter) How
= ne buy il? will tell you how.
soJght it on interest derived
from money that he told you was
not In the treasury. daughter
and applause)
EXPOSING CAMPAIGN LIES.
an that campaign, Governor Willis
in a speech in the city of Dayton
made this statement: 4 charge now
that instead of there being a surplus
in the treasury, that a deficit Of at
least $4,SOOOO0 exists. ] charge now
that Governor Cox knows there Is a
deficit of at least that amount and
that If he is defeated for reelection,
he will turn the state over to his sue
cessor with grave financial problems
to meet Wasn't it a rare good thing
That there was a deticit-the kind Of
deficit that Mr. Willis described
$11 100000 in cash in the treasury?
That was what Frank B. Willis re-
ceipted for the day that he became
governor Of Ohio. (Applause) An
eleven-million cash balance in the
safe. Now, he also said: There are
so many people on the state pay rolls
that you can not walk through Colum.
bus without running into state COM
missioner or state official Of some sort
or other. Why, they are so thick III
the Office buildings around the state
house that their feet are sticking out
of the windows. Oaughter.) And you
believed It, daughter and applause.)
"Do you wonder that l am better
looking and happier than ever? The
Lord gave me a sense of hnmor, and
I have been laughing ever since at
the Joke you played on yourselves.
daughter and applause.)
INCREASE IN EMPLOYEES.
"Now, as to the boots-GoVer-
nor Willis has expended more In
the first year Of his administra-
tion for salaries and personal
services by $575,ooo than ex-
pended In any one year of my ad-
mlnistration. Let us assume that
the Increase carries an average
salary per annum Of $1,000, and
Mr.. Willis can not, with all of his
eloquence expended from now un-
iii the crack Of doom, explain to
you why that increase of $575,ooO
has come If there are not at least
SIS more people on the state pay
roll now than there was two years
ago. (Applause) Multiply 575 by
2, assuming that no one-legged
men were appointed, and you
have 1,150 more boots sticking
out of the windows at Columbus
than we had two years ago.
"Mr. Willis. the red book was a
fraud now notorious. You must have
known 1t then. You do know 1t now.
n you have the qualities that would
have kept you from knowingly exploit
Ing fraud then, they ought to con
strain you to admit in this presence
that you imposed on the people. Con-
Tess, therefore, either your ignorance
Dr. your deliberate Misrepresentation.
INCREASED EXPENDITURES.
"My friend Willis knows now-I do
not know whether ne did then-that
mere was no deficit If there mad been
don't know what his predicament
.oday would be, because his boasted
blue Jeans economy has cost in mis-
irst year more money than was ever
expended by any governor in like
period in all the history of Ohio, and
le can not deny it.
"Two years ago he said that the
,nly honest Democrat in the state
house was the state auditor. The |
,tate auditors report was published |
III over Ohio yesterday and it showed |
hat Mr.. Willis expenditures in his
irst year were S19,695, ,9O2,32, beyond
I'll precedent. But tnat was not the
worst OF It. The expenses of the state
government this year, for the first