The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1921-04-15
BLOW AT GOOD GOVERNMENT

The failure of the Republican
members of the House and Senate to
i've up to their oaths of office in CIV
ing reasonable consideration to the
rippar bill, railroaded through under
Davis orders, constitutes one of the
most fragrant offenses against good
government that Ohio has witnessed
in recent years.
Only a few perfunctory hearings
were held and these, SO it is reported,
were held in two-by-four room
where not one-ffth Of those who de-
sired to be present could get in. The
language of the bill was not even in
vestigated.
Nearly fifty amendments were nee
essary to correct mistakes, large and
small, when the bill reached the SEN
ate. Major amendments that were
for the purpose of strengthening the
admittedly weak and confusing Sec
tions, were rejected--the strong arm,
city-hall tactics of the Governor
reaching into committee room and on
the floor of the Senate sto steam
roller all opposition and all desire
for amendment.
The bill is indefensible. Use of the
emergency is the act Of dictator
denial of popular constitutional
rights that no man can Justly, and
the spectacle Of over one hundred
members of the House and thirty
three members Of the Senate submerg-
ing their manhood, turning deaf
ear to conscience, violating their
oaths Of Office, and forgetting their
constituents, 'all because Ringmaster
Davis desires to become the political
czar of Ohio, constitutes one Of the
blacklist pages in all the political his
tory Of Ohio.
fFsy The reorganization ripper of the
Governor is wrong in principle, be-
cause it throws every activity of the
state government, including health,
penal and charitable, into the mire
and maelstrom of partiSan politics.
!, There was a time, indeed, when poll.
tics was the ruling passion of those in
I charge of state wards and public
health. The bitter experience Of
those days, however, resulted in the
long and intense fight that was made
for good government, and good gov
ernment won.
Now the man from Cleveland, with
his band of henchmen-political &C.
cidents to be sure, but nevertheless
welding greater power than any
governor has ever before attempted
seeks to gather unto himself the might
of a Caesar, and to do it in defiance
of the constitution, and over the
right of the people to pass upon thu
acts of his legislativ jacks-in-the
box.
Give this power to Harry L. Davis
and the victories of twenty years will
go for naught; Ohio will become th'
most reactionary state in the uniol
and the envy and idol of the corrup
political bosses everywhere; and Obi,
will rue thsr day and pay penalt!
too great to reckon in dollars ant
4 cents.
1t will be to the everlasting credi
Of Senator Burke Of Elyria, Republi
can, that he openly fought against tn
passage Of this nefarious bill, with O.
without the emergency clause, an
from the floor of the Senate he plain
ly showed that the bill did not con
tain single emergency feature
Said Burke; "They could not shov
one for there is nothing that effect
the immediate peace, health or safet
of the state, as the constitution de
clares is necessary to deny the peopl
the right Of referendum"
The action of Davis, too, is in real
ity reflection upon the integrity Q
the members Of the Supreme Cour
in the light of the Courts decision,
and there can be but one way to n
move that suspicion, and that is fo
the Court to smash this autocrati
disregard of constitution and ope
the way for a review of the ripper
the people. This the Court shoul
and probably will do.
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