The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-08-31
OHIO REPUBLICAN. .
VOTERS ARE AWAKE
TO THE THREATENED DANGER
THAT IMPERILs OUR INDUS
TRIAL WELFARE.
SHOWN BY PRIMARY RESULTS
That Democratic Voters Do Not Favor
Program Of Washington Administra.
tion-ohioans in Accord With Eco
nomie and Efficient System.


nomie and Efficient System.
Columbus, O.-To the thinking vo-
ter, no matter what his political afil-
iations, the result of the primary elec-
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
evidenced by the vote given to John
]. Lentz, who opposed Senator Atlee
Pomerene. The Pomerene vote was
101,806 and the vote of LentZ was
59,O77. 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
polled 106,462 more votes than James
NJ Cox. 1t shows that the total oppo-
s:sion 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 18 per cent. The opposi-
ton to Cox was 20 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 office-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 to
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
nounces himself candidate against
Governor Willis.
His announcement is in the form of
letter resigning official position in
the Anti-Saloon League to the state
superintendent of that organization,
Mr.. J. A. White. The reason given for
his becoming candidate reads:
Il have been acquainted with and dis.
tresSed by the close working agree
ment between the present state admin.
istration and the worst element in
hamilton County"
This locates the worst elements" in
Cincinnati in the hilltop residence
wards, for they were the only ones
Willis carried and the Governor had
but 1000 majority in Cincinnati, while
other Republican candidates had 12,.
900 to 25,0O0
The resignation by Mack from office
in the Anti-Saloon League is for news
paper use alone, his connection with
that body having been severed long
ago. When, to advance his interest
as candidate for the Republican pri
mary nomination, Mack claimed con
nection with the League. State Super
intendent White gave out statement
repudiating Mack formally This ON
cial statement was printed by the Co
lumbus Citizen and throughout the
state, but not in the Columbus journal
and Dispatch, owned by Mr.. Robert F
Wolfe.
His decision to run was given Out
after he, r. T. Wolfe's secret service
man, Matt Glaser, and a political
writer for Cox, had held conferences
in room of the Neil House during
four days. The intent evidently is tt
draw dry votes from Willis in the in
terest of Cox, for he is making his
campaign for the governorship as he
did for the nomination, by charging
that Gov. Willis is allowing whole
sale violation of the laws for the regu
lation of the liquor traffic to carry out
deal by which he got wet support II
Cincinnati in the last state election
When the Cox newspapers printed
this statement the liquor licensing
board at Columbus sent eight inspect
ors to the city. They asked Mack t.
indicate saloons in which laws were
being violated. He did not name one
Mr. Mack, during the first year O
the Willis administration, was attor
ney for the local AntiSaloon League