The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-03-23
NEWS CULLED
IN THE CAPITAL
ACTIVITIES OF STATE DEPART
MENTS-OTHER HAPPENINGS
special Columbus Correspondent.

secretary OF state HllQeDrandt
to the various county cleo
tion boards, which bodies will then
contract for supply Of ballots for the
use Of the voters. There are two bal
lots for each of the two leading par
ties, one containing the names of can
didates for presidential and vice pres
idential nominations, on which the
voters will designate their prefer
ences, and one containing the names
of candidates for delegates and alter
mates to both the state and national
conventions of both parties. Each
county will I'LL in its own names for
delegates and alternates from the con-
gressional district to the national con-
vention and from the counties to the
state conventions. The Republican
presidential preference ballot contains
the names of Theodore E. Burton of
Ohio and William Grant Webster, a
Chicago man, for president, but car
ries no names for vice president. On
the Democratic ballot Woodrow Will
son is the only candidate for presi-
dent, but there Is a contest on for vice
presidential nomination of that party.
1t had been generally supposed that
Vice President Thomas r. Marshall Of
Indiana would be unopposed for a Sec
ond term nomination in Ohio, but
fate has decreed otherwise. Frank s.
Monnett of Columbus has his eye on
the vice presidency, and so he will go
before the Democratic electors of the
Buckeye state as a candidate for that
office. The names of Marshall and
Monnett will both appear on the bal
lot and the electors can take their
choice. Under the Ohio primary elec.
ton law almost anyone can run for
vice president There are five Demo
cratic candidates for delegates-at-
large and seven Republican candidates
for such nominations
Discussed Minimum Wage Law.
The Ohio Association of Retail Dry
Goods Dealers, in session here, dis
cussed the proposed minimum wage
law, and by no means took hostile
attitude toward the proposition. 1t
was expressed by many members,
however, that for the reason that the
state idustrial commission has such
a great volume of business on it's
hands in the workmen's compensation
department, that a separate commits
sion ought to be created to take up the
wage question. The matter was dis
posed of for this meeting by referring
the subject to committee to study
it for the entire ensuing year and re-
port at the next annual meeting in case
the legislature has done nothing with
the proposition in the mean time.
II. S. Shelton of Dayton, was elected
president, and T. H. Craig of Washing
ton c. H., vice president. R. B. Sui
lIvan of Columbus, who has been Sec
retary and executive officer for several
years, was reelected.
Eight-Hour Day for Employees.
President John E. McGilvery of the
Kent state normal school, has lost in
his appeal to Attorney General Tur-
ner from an order of the state indus
trial commission prohibiting him from
requiring janitors and other employees
of the school to work more than eight
hours a day. In turning down his ap-
peal, General Turner holds that the
eight-hour rule applies to normal
schools just as it does to other in
stitutions over which the state exer-
cises direct control. He advised Pres
ident McGilvery that the employees of
the Kent school could not be legally
compelled to labor longer than eight |
hours day. This ruling also applies
to the other state normals.
Open Clubhouse With ohio Day.
The San Carlos club of San Fran
cisco, which purchased the Ohio build |
ing erected on the Panama exposition |
grounds, end is now arranging to |
move it to a point II miles down the !
bay from San Francisco, has planned !
to hold a celebration in the building
in its new location on April II, which !
has been designated Ohio day. The
building is to be floated down the bay
on barges.
Must Take Examination.
Secretary Stauffer of the state
board of agriculture has withdrawn his
application to the state civil service
commission to have six bureau heads
and one stenographer in the depart
ment exempted from the requirements
of the civil service law. This he did
after a conference with President
Campbell of the commission in which
the latter stoutly resisted the request.
Testing Split Fee Law.
The state medical board is watching
eagerly for the outcome of the first
trial under the new act prohibiting the
practice of splitting fees between doc
tors and surgeons. A DR.. Schwanker
in Cincinnati has been arrested under
the provisions of the law and will in
few days come up for trial. 1t will
be the laws first test.
Abolish Rooster Day.
Rooster Day" has been abolished
by the new state board of agriculture
This day was established by the old
agricultural commission, which set
aside a day early in June for the
slaughtering of the king of the barn
yard in the interest of the non-fertile
egg I'VE do not think that farmers
paid any attention to Rooster Day
and we doubt whether the egg situa-
tion was helped any by the day, so we
have concluded to do away with the
day." said T. L. Calvert, state dairy
and food inspector. S. E. Strobe, for
merely of Gallon. originated the day.
Examiners Appointed.
Seven examiners have been appoint
ed by the state public utilities COM
mission to go over the books of the
Wheeling & Lake Erie railroad to OBJ,
tain evidence to be used by the COM
mission in passing upon the complaint
of the Pittsburgh Vein Coal OperatorseI
association, alleging the company is