The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-09-26

EXPOSING CAMPAIGN LIES.
IN that campaign, Governor willis
In a speech IN tee city Of DAYTON
made this statement. 4 cnarge now
that instead of there being a surplus
In the treasury, that deficit OF az
least S4.8O0.0 .0C0 exists. I charge now
that Governor Cox knows there is
deficit OF at least tlat amount and
that II he is defeated for reelection,
he will turn the state over to his sue.
cessor with grave financial problems
TO meet Wasn't It are good thing
tnat there was a deicit-the kind %
deficit that Mr.. Willis described
$11 100000 IN cash in the treasury
That was what Frank b. Willis re-
| ceipted for ;he day that he became
governor of Ohio. (Applause.) An
eleven-millon cash balance in the
safe. Now, he also said: There are
/ so many people on the state pay rolls
that you can not wall, through Colum
bus without running into a state COM
missioner or state official of some sort
or other. why, they are so thick in
the Office buildings around the state
house that rheir feet are sticking out
of the windows Naughter.) And you
believed It. daughter and applause.
'Do you wonder that am better
looking and happier than ever? The
Lord gave me a sense of humor, and
I have been laughing ever since al
the joke you played on yourselves
daughter and applause.)
INCREASE IN EMPLOYEES.
"Now. as to the boots-Gover-
nor Willis has expended more in
the first year of his sdministra-
tion for salaries and personal
services by $575,ooo than | ex-
pended in any one year of my ad-
ministration. Let US assume that
the increase carries an average
salary per annum Of $1,000, and
Mr.. Willis can not, with all of his
eloquence expended from now un-
ill the crack of DOOM explain to
you why that increase of $575,oo0
has come if there are not at least
575 more people on the state pay
roll now than there was two years
ago. (Applause.) Multiply 575 by
2, assuming that no one-legged
men were appointed, and you
have 1,15o more boots sticking
out of the windows at Columbus
than we had two years auo.
"Mr. Willis. the red book was
= fraud now notorious. You must hav
known it then You do know it now
If you have the qualities that woul
have kept you from knowingly exploit
ing a fraud then. tney ought to cor
strain you to admit in this presenc
that you imposed on the people. Cor
fess, therefore, either your ignorsnc
or your deliberate Misrepresentation.
INCREASED EXPENDITURES.
"My friend Willis knows now-I d
not know whether ne did then-tha
there was no deficit. If there mad bee
don't know what his predicamen
today would be, because his boaste
blue Jeans economy mas cost in hi
first year more money than was eve
expended by any governor in lik
period in all the history of Ohio, an
he can not deny it.
1.-TWO years ago he said that tn
only honest Democrat in the stat
house vas the state auditor. TIL
state auditors report was publishe
all over Ohio yesterday and it shove
that Mr.. Willis expenditures in hi
first year were s19,695, ,9O2,32, beyon
all precedent But tnat was not tn
worst of it. The expenses of the stat
government this year, for the frs
time in fifty or sixty years, exceede
the income of the state governmen
And I challenge any statistician t
question this statement. If the pre-
ent order of economy continues Ion
enough, the red flag of the sheriff wi
swing over the old state house at G.
lumbus. and the new building alst
(Applause.) make this further stat
ment, and l ask you to follow event
that within three months time til
new eleven-story building will not b
sufficient in size to take care of tn
employees and the official bootery {
the Willis administration.
"Now, Mr.. Willis. in his campaign
said that deficit was arrived at
this way: He took the amount
money in the treasury and set o
against it the appropriations that ha
been made, and if the appropriation
exceeded the amount in the treasur
then there was a deficit Now, tAi
was his kind of deficit. Let us Co
cede for the sake of argument that h
was correct. If he was, then ism
your deficit Mr. Willis, the kind
deficit you figure, s2.000,0O0 more t
day than 1t was when you were ma
ing these Thomas Jefferson figure
for the people of Ohio? Why, tai
the governors Office, for instance
Governor Willis has expended MOI
) money in the governors office tina
Cox did. What a surprise that mu!
be. | lapsed $4,000, and turned
back without its expenditure. Cove
nor Willis did not lapse single do
lar back at the end of the appropri
tion year. Listen to ME: After the LEI