The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-08-17
NEWS CULLED
IN THE CAPITAL
ACTIVITIES OF STATE DEPART
MENTS-OTHER HAPPENINGS
Special Columbus Correspondent.

sembly next winter will be a
bill to change the primary
election so the candidate for office
whose name begins with A will not
have any advantage over the candidate
whose name starts with some other
letter. This measure will seek to
amend the primary election law so
that names will rotate on the ballot
and will not go in alphabetical order,
as now. Unless the law is changed
there will be little chance for any
candidate to break into office whose
name does not start at the beginning
of the alphabet or near the top. The
results in the recent primary
election conclusively indicate this.
Adams of Sandusky, not known out
side of his county, won the Repub-
hcan nomination for auditor of state
over Joseph T. Tracy of Columbus and
Portsmouth, who was endorsed by
party leaders throughout the state.
Bloom of Bowling Green, of whom
practically nothing is known in state
political circles, won the Democratic
nomination for lieutenant governor.
Joyce of Cambridge, hardly known
outside Of his congressional district,
won a Republican supreme judge NOM
ination hands down. He was the first
on the ticket for judge. AS one oppo-
nent Of the primary election law ex-
pressed it, If Benedict Arnold and
George Washington had been candi-
dates under the present law, Wash
ington would not have had a look in.
If the law is changed so that names
will rotate all candidates will be on
equal ground.
Name Left Off Ticket.
What redress has candidate when
his name is left off a county ballot in
advertently or otherwise, as the case
may be? That is what former State
Librarian John Henry Newman wants
to know. He duly qualified for the
Democratic nomination for secretary
of state in the Ohio primaries
and in the counties that have made
their official reports already seems to
have run pretty well. But he COM
plains that his name was left off the
ballot in several counties. He has
proof already that his name did not
appear on the official ballots in Aug
laiZe and Delaware counties. He says
that he heard several days before the
election that he was not to get on the
ballot in certain parts of the state but
could not believe that such a thing
would be done and paid little attention
to it. He had a copy of the ballot
used I'm Auglaize county and showed
1t to Secretary of State Hildebrant,
who is the chief state supervisor of
election. No case of this kind has
ever before occurred.
Youngest Patient at Hospital.
The youngest patient ever admitted
to the Columbus State hospital is
Frank Stafford, aged seven, admitted
from this county. He is a waif and
was adopted when an infant by Mrs.
Matte Stafford. Several months ago
he began to manifest the most cruel
tendencies. He would throw sand in
the eyes of dogs and cats and see
them squirm in pain-apparently en-
joying it. He has set his foster moth,
er's house on fire several times, and
developed such cruel tendencies that
she felt that she could no longer keeI
him. He is no imbecile-far from it.
and so is not eligible to admission tC
the institution for imbecile youth, sc
that the hospital for the insane re
manned as the only institution into
which he could be put.
Urge Appointn ent of Moosers.
There is no little speculation re
garding who will be chosen among
former Bull Moosers to serve on the
Republican state campaign committee
Several prominent former members oi
this party, now defunct, will be in
vited to return to the Republican folG
and take places on the state executive
committee, which will be in charge o.
the fall campaign. At a conference
here, Gov. Willis and Col. Myron T
Herrick, Republican candidate for sen
ator, decided to urge the Republican
state central committee to appoin
Bull Moosers on the campaign com
mitee.
Fought BY Vets and Drys.
In a statement given out recent!
by Harry M. Daugherty he said tina
he had been fought in the primar!
campaign by both the vets and drys
had a great handicap laid upon hin
by the eulogy of Herrick by Mr.
Hughes, and labored further under Z
great burden generally recognized tt
which he would not more specifically
refer
Heads Insurance Company.
Former State Fire Marshal John w
Zuber is president of the newly or
ganized American National Fire In
surance Co., in which only Ohio cap
ital has been put. William V. Bake
is the vice president
Soon Be In New Quarters.
Lawyers and others throughout th'
state, who have business with the Ohit
public utilities commission will sooI
find this department in quarters OF
the seventh and eighth floors of thu
Wyandotte skyscraper, the new offic'
building just purchased by the state.
Filipino Takes Job.
Leopoldo A. Faustino of Calambr;
Laguna, Philippine islands. who il
Ohio's first Philippine employe, has as
sumed the duties of file clerk in thu
office of State Highway COMMISSIONS
Clinton Cowen. Faustino has beel
studying mining engineering.
Names Delegates.
Gov. Frank B. Willis has named tht
following delegates to attend the con
ference on mining legislation to b.
held in Chicago Nov. 13: Walter r
WoodfOrd, Cleveland; DR.. Biddle, Ath
ems; John Moore, Columbus; Perez
Tetlow, Washingtonville, and Jaamei
Pritchard, Columbus.
Escaped Convict Arrested.