Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-11-16
ONE PERCENT POLITICS

ONE PERCENT POLITICS
After being dogged about by Doc
. and Fuehrer Frash ever since the
; election last fall, Myers Van Fosser
has resigned as laborer in the high.
way maintenance department
which was effective Nov / AS we
il get it, Van Fossen was an applicant
for an appointment, following the
election last fall and in the event
he received one, he would resign as
member Of the election board.
The feuhrer, assisted by the Lord
Highway executioner, got Van Fos-
sen part-time pick and showed job,
and then expected him to get off the
election board-in fact we are in
formed that at a recent meeting of
!. the committee his resignation was
| demanded, and they even went so
far as to select his successor on the
election board, but he did not fall
for their scheme even though he
has but a few more months to serve,
but instead resigned the highway
job
We have yet to hear of any COM
plant of Van Fossen's inefficiency--
either from Republicans or Demo-
Gratis excepting from those trying
to overthrow him). Ask any mem
| ber of the election board who has
| served with Van Fossen, and see if
| they don't speak in high praise Of
his services. Here we will state that
when it comes to ability, Van Fos-
sen is equal to, if not above, any Re-
publican who has received an ap-
pointment from this county, under
the present state administration,
and after the services he has rem
dered his party he is entitled to a
worth while position
Following the election last fall,
when the committee was intoxicated
with joy, it was decreed that the
committeeman of the various pre-
cincts would have the first plums,
the rind and stones should be the
reward of the lowly who worked in
trenches. Since this made it some
what embarrassing for some com
mitteemen to openly vote for them
selves and ignore their neighbors,
and after time seeing the muddle
they We're getting into gave the
feuhrer the sole right to make rec
mendations-bu as time went
on, the thing went from bad to
worse, and number of the better
type of citizens on the committee
have absented themselves from the
meeting declaring they won't be
made party to such tactics.
After certain of the committee
men had gobbled off the better ap-
pointments, they began to think ofl
the future, knowing that the Demo-
Gratis will come back in power, and
wanting to get under civil service
protection (can anyone imagine a |
Republican trying to get protection
under the civil service, after the
mockery the state administration
tried to make of it,, resigned from
the committee.
But a little more about Van Fos-
sen. 1t may have been that the
reason for putting the pressure on
him is because he hadn't kicked in
with the one percent levied by the
feuhrer. on the salaries of all who
had either appointments or jobs !
We understand that some of this
one percent is to be used partly to
take care of the deficit of that ia !
nous victory beef sandwich supper,
near causing an epidemic of summer
complaint.
Some say that the decree banning
committeeman from holding posi-
tions or jobs was leveled at Dale
Smith by the feuhrer, knowing that
Smith cannot take refuge in the
civil service refrigerator.
The new edict meant for Fred
Davis of precinct G that he get off
the committee, and in his place,
Elmer Steward was named. "Gingi"
has always been a fine citizen; was
an outstanding athlete, and has new
er indulged in, or would permit
but good, clean sports,
and we can't understand why he
consent to be mixed up with
a one percent political mess, where
the word "clean" does not fit in
The House That Doc Built
,ssss (Contributed)
Out of the factions of old faced
men, out of the countenance of new
faces thin, there was builded a
strong house "Republikin; but lol
my dear reader it's now on the rock.
due to the blundering of Glib and
Doc. Now there's boy all shaw,
en- and shorn, of all hopes he has
had ever since he was born, of eat
ing the malt and courting the
queen, during the brief time of the
Bricker regime. Time and again,
,ut in Penn, he delivered the goods
for the very men, that traded him
off, even now and then; when he
thought he was setting snugly in the
house that Doc built. He played
with Matson, the Smiths and Shinn,
and worked for the fellow that
Mallett put in; furnished lies and
political rot, and now for his trou-
ole see what he's got. Three months
more ON the lection board, stay in
here of his own accord, and order
I'd out, and out right then, by the
highest rank of committee men.
Notified that his time is spent, and
yet must pay the one percent, and
he's out of the house that Doc
built.
VISITORS FROM GLENDALE,