The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1916-01-14
SPOTS
FROM Ex- GOVERNOR cox's JACK
SON DAY SPEECH AT DAYTON

1.-The Cox administration expended
s., ,29l 1913 for new buildings and lands,
for our universities. normal schools hos
pitfalls and correctional Institutions The
! willis administration has not paid but
one dollar for permanent improvements
in the way Of lands or buildings. and yet
its cost to the people for the year 1915
Is Sl26S93 more than in 1914"
| II ask any man In Ohio to raise his
voice now and point to one single con-
structive act of the Willis admnistra-
tion!"
"Our administration was cussed but
/ never laughed at, IL was a tragedy TO
certain interests In the state but a Joke
According TO Candidate Willis there
was no need Of having offices outside the
statehOuse as Ohio was bankrupt. But
as Governor Willis he found not only the
necessity OF outside offices but a rich
! treasury to erect state building with"
Instead OF the newspapers carrying
daily stories of research work by the
state, of plans going forward for the bet
tering of industrial relations, and inn
provement In prison methods, and the
further efficiency Of our institutions of
education-we read only now of the
brandishing of the political war axe"
The Willis regime has been designa-
ted as the great DO Nothing administra-
structiVe service this charge is true
but in spoils and schemes and methods
that are unseemly it has a great record
of accomplishment Never has warrior
bold puenched i'm larger measure his
thirst for blood than the leader of the
present tribe of head hunters in the state
house"
Few people will ever know the tre-
menduous effort made 10y the admnistra-
tion of Frank B. Willis to wreck and
crush the compulsory workmen's com
pensation law"
1T has been said that the Cox admin
istration was defeated because it passed
too many good laws for hasty assimila-
tion and that il was criticised because
the full force of authority centered in
the Governor was exercised. In an an
alysis of that contention, let US submit
the people of Ohio not to have construc-
tive legislation passed when it is needed,
and if their wish be certain that back
bone depart from executive organism
then 1t Is my recommendation that Frank
b. Willis be eelcted Governor of Ohio for
life. He meets In fullest measure these
specifications"
when / was Governor, the members
of the Agricultural Commission and the
Governor himself paid their ways into
the state Fair, and when thousands Of
right or reason the past year, those re-
sponsible for 1t We're, in the moral scale
at least, as guilty as if they had looted
the cash box at the gate"
"If we are to recognize the element of
simple justice in the affairs of govern
ment, then its burdens must be equally
distributed and taxation is the only
means of this accomplishment That
was a militant policy of the Cox admins
tration Because of it the charge was
made that the authority of the state was
exceeded and the big stick, so called, |
was used to keep down taXrates To
the last named count / plead guilty, and
il the interests of constructive progress |
i've government should ever call me back |
to official station, 1 shall take that same |
efficient implement along"
"The conclusion is irresistible that af- |
ter the Willis administration had gone |
on for a few months, its active head |
knew full well that the wrath of the peo- |
pie would be upon him, and prudence |
suggested that he hide under the coat |
tails of a candidate for President. Pur-
suant to that thought the Hulswitt bill |
was passed destroying the separate bal
lot Mr.. Willis doubtless argued that he
sentation and that they would be fooled |
in 1916 because they couldn't find him on
the ticket"