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seat on that bench after April o.
Meantime she will sit in no further
hearings here. but give her time until
that date in disposing Of cases in
which she has taken part.
Rot and rubbish" was the only
comment made by DR.. Carl Watson,
Democratic State chairman, regarding
the attack Of the Republican State
leaders in conference here last week
upon the administration of Gov.
George White. The Cleveland Plain
Dealer reports a deal across party
lines between former Secretary OF
State Clarence J. Brown and Repre-
sentative M. L. Sweeney of Cleveland,
which has for its object the delivery
across the line of Sweeney to support
Brown in his campaign for the Re-
publican nomination for Governor this
Summer. Cleveland has two entries
for that nomination-D. E. Morgan
and John A. Eden.
Immediately upon receiving news
from Washington that the Senate had
confirmed the appointment Of Judge
Florence Allen to the United States
District Court of Appeals, Gov. White
announced, as expected, the appoint
ment of Robert N. Wilkin of New
Philadelphia to succeed Judge Allen
on the State Supreme Court bench.
Judge Wilkin was an unsuccessful
candidate for the State Supreme
Court in 1882. He will have to run
for election to the bench in Novem-
Der, if he is to continue service there.
Party Formation Begun.
Ohioans interested in organizing the
new Commonwealth political party,
which has been launched in other
States, have obtained the services of
Howard L. Holmes of Michigan to
take charge of the organization work.
G. l.. Dargusch, head of the State
Tax Commission, upset the program
prepared by Gov. Whites special tax
alton committee to raise enough ad-
ditional revenue to balance the State
budget, just as the special session of
the Legislature was about TO act
upon it, by announcing that mistake
had been found in the calculations
Of DR.. L. Edwin Smart, expert in the
commission, as to the expected yield
OF the proposed tax rate on incomes.
which showed that the yield would
be SO much less than had been esti-
mated that it would be impossible to
proceed with a plan with the expecta-
ton OF making this the principal
SourceSource Of the additional revenue.
No suggestion has come from any
source as to what turn should be made
now, but opponents of the sales tax
are declaring that it is a move to
force the sales tax on the State, and
they are again fighting that plan.
Mayor Harry L. Davis Of Cleveland,
here to urge the Legislature to permit
cities to cut into the proceeds of sink
ing fund levies for operating expenses
In order to help his city out of a
financial hole, heard one of the Rep
reSentatives Of his own county. in a
speech opposing the measure, declare
that "the mayor of Clevland was the
greatest tax spender of all time"
United States Treasurer Julian
bought at judicial sale last week a
farm of 1859 acres, in Madison
County, near London, for $50 500.
Two weeks before. Col. William c.
Proctor of Cincinnati bought a large
acreage in the same county, giving
him farm there. with previous hold
mgS, of more than 5000 acres. Madi-
son County is known as Ohio's only
prairie county and also as a county
OF large grazing farms.