The Cedarville Herald, Volume 49, Numbers 27-52

TH E C E DARV I L L E H E R A L D t e S W ^ r ^ - t . -- ...........—........... ’ " .................... - T th e in tam t of « e political machine,- KAXLH BULL * , — EDITOR AND PUBLISHER ! The figure# qwtcd from page 8*fi .......— ...... v- - .......... - ■ ------- -------------.-- — ' spofck for themselves. They are opes ; rnopoami I M c M *Lth* Foot*00m, Ceda -y ilVO ., OdoU r SI, 1887. a* aeeetui Uor inajxfction to anyone or you can j eiasa -msHinr, *tijivo a copy by writing to the State J - . | Auditor. FRIDAY, JUDY dO, J.teP. THE COST OF LOAFERS DOSSER ON THE RUN Thi* seem* to he a had year on th e « politic.d. houses. Down in '< Cincinnati! the Republkans have tired of the old Cox-Hynivka rule that has held that city and Hamilton county under * bondage fo r thirty-five years. The Republicans that have found boss rule n t Oidy distasteful, but expensive, have put out an entire ticket for the county offices and a greet campaign ia h dug waged to frep the county of the corrupt hold the politicians have on the public. The management of county affairs has been so corrupt .and revelations thus made have astounded the people. Last fall Cincinnati adopted the city manager plan of government to break the political rule and now the county is in fo r a house-cleaning, . Over in Montgomery county Boss BroWet has held sway these many years and the Republicans say it is absolutely necessary to break the hold of the boss or the*county goes solidly Democratic this fall. Brower is put­ ting up a great fight to maintain his grip to keep the faithful in the places of public trust that the county can he held for political profit. Greene county is suffering with the same kind of disease, Here we have a fully developed branch of the Harry Daugherty machine that is. again seeking to strengthen its hold on the taxpayers. I t was only: a few months ago that Judge Gowdy, Sen. .«?) Marshall and Prosecutor Marshall, appeared before a delegation of the Daugherty followers that met in a Springfield hotel and agreed to deliv­ er Greene county for Sherman Deaton 'o f Hi,bans, as a candidate fo r State Central Committeeman. -While Harry Daugherty is fighting in a United States Court to keep out of the peni­ tentiary, his representatives, who are anxious to aid him in controlling the district, agree openly to deliver Greene county as if the votes were but a. peck of potatoes. The manner in which the Elizabeth Lytle estate* has been kept open for seven years because Judge Gowdy .call have favors in . courts, th a t the law grants no .other citizen, is an­ other reason why, this hold should he broken. A family has been denied the control and' use of property, and for years dividends from stocks, ail be­ cause political manipulation has made it possible. Political bossism has no •regard fo r the laws Of the state. Po­ litical power, oomdemns, indicts, ' rights of others. When a man cannct be granted that in qpuii whL’h the constitution guarantees Ium, hi! then becomes a &! r \ c to a system th a t if continued and i,em itted to grow, would bring about a revolution. The public has been blinded while the demagogues continue to preach one-thing and practice another. You hear about law enforcement yet when we read the report of State Auditor Joseph Tracy- we find tha t prohibi­ tion enfoj cement has been a joke. It Is true wo have many raids and trials but they mean little. Fines collected speak for themselves -and this report proves th a t the issue in this county has been for nothing more than poli­ tical, not for profit to the state or to the county. Op page 33G of this repo rt,n copy of which we have on hand, we find some startling facts that should he of interest. Under the Crnbbe prohibition law one half of the fines collected go to the state, the other to the. county. During the term of Prosecutor \Vil-, lfomson from July 1, 1022 to June 3Q, 1923 the state received from offenders of this law in this county, $5,833.72. Fyom July 1, 1023 to June SO 1924, six months’ of which time Prosecutor Marshall. served, the state received $5,479.70, and the county an equal amount, , . 1 From July 1, 1924 to June 30, 1925, the first full year under Prosecutor Marshall, the state only received $1,234.63, and the county an equal amount. During the year last men­ tioned. Prosecutor Marshall spent more of the county funds, for suppos­ ed law enforcement than was ever spent by any proceeding prosecutor. Regardless of this groat increase in expenditures he collected during the year 1925. $4,215.07 less than was collected during the year 1924, siv' months of which was during his term and six months under Kenneth Wil­ liamson. These figures'are not our data hxit taken from page 336 of the state report, which is compiled from reports from' the prosecutor’s office. The. proof'to the public, is conclu­ sive that the prohibition question in this county has" been ‘nothing more than a foot-ball for the politicians and public funds have evidently fceeii spent more with the idea of feeding the political machine than with gain­ ing results fo r the county. The public has been fed false infor­ mation and misled a t every turn. You that is as far as the public knows.. One of the greatest items of ex-; prose in the present-day system of government is the slacker, the lazy loafter who produces nothing and thus shirk* his shave of bearing the public buidcn. The schools are crowded with children of parents who do not pay one cent of taxes. {The jails are filled with idle criminals who thus force the thrifty taxpayers to pay their hoard and keep. And it is this class of hand to.mouth, shiftless individuals who are always crying against men of property. These parasites on the body politic are the pests of the civilization of today. Never in the history of the ""world have men of means been so liberal, never have they done so many good deeds with their dollars as they are doing today. Great foundations are established to fight disease, to pro- mocb civic welfare, to maintain in­ stitutions for the unfortunate and to give children the advantages of an education. And, while the workers and, sov* era are making these- nqble -sacrifices for humanity, the lazy, indolent, trif­ ling loafers sit in the shade or mount store hbxes and rail against the op­ pression of. capital. Of all the as­ sessments that bea1' heaviest on the willing workers, the “won’t-workers” are the worst, A lazy man travels so; slowly that poverty is sure to overtake him, which is only another way of saying that failure is generally the fault of the indolent.. ■,»*. • If everyone was busy and thirfty, doing his share' to earn and save, the jails and the great armjfo of police would cease to be a tremendous item of expense; the almhouses and their ever-mounting hills could he with­ drawn from tlie expense side of the ledger. If. all the money now wasted in caring fo r the lazy loafers could be liut to work in useful channels what an easy place in which to live this old' world would he. ARTJCLX XVIIL SKCriON u . CM T o , A C Q U « £ N ^ ,O P ,llT y . i 9* «* k» the Z'euercl AtsemM? pf the Stott e f Oku, tkret gftli* ot tk* auemkw. i ~ to M b Jauw. eoftctu-rittjt H um s; I -Th*t there *h*l! bt tabmitUd to the doctor* ! •* «*te id the wanner prevlded by law, • «* the second Tuesday in August, 1926, a pro­ posal tq amend section 11 q£ article XVIII of the constitutum of Ohio, so aa to read u fol­ lows: Sec. 11. Any municipality acquiring property by twshase or appropriation for * public im, prnyement way provide money therefor, in whole or w ,P*rV by assessments upon property bene­ fited by tbe improvement whether abutting, ad­ jacent or otherwise located. Such assessments shall to no case exceed special benefits conferred thereby. „ , Be it further retched, That at such election above referred to th» amendment shall be placed tut the official ballot, in the maimer pro- vided by Jaw and designated aa follows: “To authorise assessment- by municipalities of tbe cost of acquiring property for public improvement upon lands benefited thereby,” or. m other language, sufficiently dear to desig­ nate such purpose. If adopted said amendment shall take effect «» the first day of January, 1S27. Adopted March 27, 192$. ' .’ „ Uairxo S tatxs or Anaxica, . S tatb or O hio , Office the Secretary of State. - I», THAO BROWN, Secretary of State, of the, State of Ohio, do hereby certify that the foregoing is an .exemplified copy, carefully compared by me with the. original now ’on file tn my office and in my oniclaj custody av Secretary cf State and fpund-to be true and correct of a Joint Resolution adopted by the 8Cth General Assembly of the State of Ohio on March 2?, 1925, and filed iu the office of the Secretary of State, on April 3, 1925,. proposing to amend Article XVIII, Section 11 of the Constitution, .relative to assessments for the costs of acquiring property, IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hsve here- -I., j ijfrmififrFBij s t s k / • / / Vhe GREATEST BUICK EVER BUILT w. U THE GREAT Greene Co Your Fair on Your Grounds ' August 34 = 5 = 6,1926 •Al Three Days of Racing. Live Stock Shows Boys a ud Girls Chib Shows Daily Calf Shows Grange Exhibits Industrial and Merchants Display Quoit Club Tournaments A Midway of Varied Interests Band Concerts Every Day Parade r ’ Livestock on Friday* Speed Entries dose July 29, 11:00 P. M. 'Ail other.Ei!tries close July 31,.9:00 P. M, ■. ■. f * C. M. Austin, Pros. B. U. Bell, Treas. Grant Miller, Vice-Pres. THE PRIMARY CHANGE From all re-ports the cities will sup­ ply the bulk of the names on petitions seeking a, change in the primary law. The rural counties do not seem to be coming forward with names as fast as the mpre populous centers. There are many who believe in a change in the primary law, bu t before jhis changs is made they want to cvefty anxious- to have the legisla­ ture make the change on orders from the city bosses- The great cry about the use of enormous funds in primary elections :md the corruption found in Pennsyl­ vania, Illinois aud other states, does ordinarily interest the professional politician. Corruption in politics is one topic that ’ political bosses sel­ dom mention, though’ a t present the recent exposures has shocked the bos­ ses, who arc exercised over conditions mid have more than usual interest in the moral advancement of the elector ate. ‘ - ’’The real truth is th a t the bosses see a time to play on the temperment of the people and take advantage in restoring the old convention system of making nominations. The wet and dry problem also enters tbe contest and when you look around the cry for the change comes from the liberal centers. , , The Troy Daily News hns the fol­ lowing to say on the primary: " ‘Opponents of the present primary system declare that “it makes i t easier for the professional politician or the “boss”, so naturally we may expect to see them all line up against the proposal to abolish the primary, It wili be interesting to observe in each community just how this expec­ tation is realized.” WhiebDisiiifeetMi? 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