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Oil Inspector Asks Help from
Emergency Board
His Predecessor Turned $lOO,
600 Into The Treasury

Columbus, o., Feb. 11--A reconcil.
iation has been effected between
Newton M. Miller and Governor
Frank B. Willis, after the break oc-
casioned by the appointment of q
new member of the state board Of ad-
ministration. 1t now appears that
Miller is slated for the post of pur-
chasing agent when a vacancy oc-
ours, the governor having indignant
ly denied that there was any pro-
posal to denote Secretary Upton and
replace him with Newt Miller. While
Miller made no reservations in his
charges of ingratitude against Cover
nor Willis, and while he plainly said
the Panama-Pacific exposition com
mission had been to promote Willis
political interests, he now takes 1t
all back" and the hatchet il buried.
There Ia no doubt that Governor
Willis owes a great debt to Newton
NJ. Miller, but that debt ought not be
paid with the peoples money. II
would have been a calamity had Mil.
Ter been named "a member Of the
state board of administration, though
ne s as worthy as others the COVER
nor has named, and more able; but
it would be tragedy is Miller were
made purchasing agent of the board,
The present agent,I. V. Lyons, has
saved millions OF dollars to the state
by his honest and efficient methods,
and Miller-well, he Is best known as
former steward of the Ohio peni-
,tentiary.
In the rearrangement between
Miller and the governor there is no
doubt that some of those nearest the
governor In his own Office have been
reprlmanded and perhaps humillated,
hut with whatever faults Willis may
have II is unbelievable that he would
go back on his private secretary,
Forest Upton, the one man in the
Willis administration who has never
wayered in loyalty to his chief.
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At the end OF eight months, j. M.
Carr, state oil inspector. has asked
the eemrgency board for an addition
al appropriation of $9,375 to pay tray
cling expenses and salaries. His
predecessor, William A. Mason, turn
ed into the state treasury in excess
of 100000 which was profit to the
state, and at the end of his term of
office turned back into the treasury
more than 80 per cent OF his allow
ance for travelling expenses. But
then II must be understood that oil
Inspector Carr is Wills political
manager who after tour of the
country was moved into the COVER
nor's office, and thorefrom issued the
famous statement that Governor VII
lis would be nominated for president
al the Republican national conyen
ton. on the third ballot
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Demand for patronage at the hands
OF the present state administration Is
no respector Of decency Among
those who have recently been made
victims for the sake of politics are
several women. In the Office of See
cretary of state Hildebrandt there
has been yielding to tho political
religious forces which aided in tho
election, and Mrs Irene Sims ha'
been discharged Mrs Sims IL thu
widow OF Edward Sims, former Co
lumbus newspaper correspondent, tin
only one Of the fraternity in the stat
in whose honor the legislature ad
journed. Mrs. Sims was given a siI
uatlon under Secretary OF Stat
Graves with the endorsement of e'
cry newspaperman in the state
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