The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1948-10-28
WE LIKE LAUSCHE
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For number of years past this paper has taken
but little concern with political issues of partisan dvs
ion But in the present contest for the governorshp
this paper would be failing in its duty if did not take
stand as between the two candidates, who ought
not to be elected and should be- by their ndisput-
able records.
In recent years it has been commonplace practice
with certain kind of scker politician, in Washing
ton and elsewhere to falsely the opposition OF
doing the things the scker politician is either doing
himself intends to doa very low form OF political
ethics, indeed.
Let us first consider the record of Tom Herbert,
present governor.
He represents that he lowered taxes because the
legislature removed few pennies per annum per cap
ita from the sales tax just as previous governor made
similar claims by removing the sales tax from food pur
chased at stores Ofsetng this is the fact that other
taxes have been hked and Governor Herbert collect
ed far taxes and spent far more money than any
governor in history With inflationary trend this
would have been true no matter who had been govern
We do not condemn Herbert for collecting tax
and spending money than any other governor,
but for representing that he lowered taxes and spent
less, which just simply is not true.
His hackers conducted smear campaign against
Governor Lausche because in the last few weeks OF
his administration, his liquor control board issued
couple of dozen licenses in Cuyahoga county Some
of these rescinded and few months later under
the administration it was blandly announced that
the state liquor board would issue hundreds of new
licenses which we presume issued This brought
grand jury accusation that of the permits were up
for sale. AS long the state of Ohio remains in the
liquor business there is certain to be such conduct We
do not condemn Herbert for this We do condemn him
for accusing his predecessor board of doing in very
minor way the very things his board intended to do IN
big way.
More brazen than the foregoing is the accusation
made in Dayton just this last Monday that Lausche did
not enforce the antgambling laws, which he Herber
represented he has enforced We take it that every in
formed person in Ohio knows that Lausche the first
governor in the history of Ohio to drive gambling from
the state nearly could be DONE just he drove
gambling from Cleveland while mayor and judge The
1916 majority of Herbert Lausche just about
the limit of the gambling interests could swing and
every informed person knows that every person in Ohio
interested in gambling voted against Lausche because
he did enforce the law.
Just where has Herbert rsked the loss of vote by
enforcing any anti-gambling law?
On the contrary, how about the 100000 hold up OF
big gambling joint in Franklin county and how about
the similar $500 900 hodup in Cuyahoga county during
the past two years. How it that in four neghbor
ing counties, within the past two months, there have
been official demands that gambling be stopped in
Guiding three grand jury protests? These counties are
Logan, Franklin, Delaware and Fairfield.
All governors but Lausche have held to the view
that gambling matter for local enforcement and
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