1905 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



1147 



made in Ohio. Mr. Herrick was not wanted as a 

 candidate for a second term, bv even a small frac- 

 tion of the Republicans of Ohio. Six months ago the 

 Republican press of Ohio (such part of it as is free 

 to express its opinion) was almost unanimous in its 

 censure of ^Ir. Ilerrick, and demanded his retire- 

 ment. Excepting a small ring of politicians, the 

 Republican mas?es called for some other candidate. 

 Mr. Herrick insisted on his own renomination. Poli- 

 ticians with whom he had ioined hands in times past 

 found it necessary to support him or disrupt that 

 beautiful "organization." There was then a rush to 

 the throne of Boss Cox. For several days the beery 

 political demigod hesitated. U. S. Senators, U. b. 

 Congrt ssmen, State officers and Republican "leaders,"' 

 waited breathless for one deciding word from the 

 saloon boss of Cincinnati. He sai.^ "Herrick." The 

 "organization" machine then began grinding "Her- 

 rick," and he was nominated in a convention in 

 which the chosen delegates of 500,0(10 Republicans of 

 Ohio had as little to say about the ticket or the 

 platform as would a huddle of homeless dogs on Me- 

 dina's public park. It was a dummy convention, 

 forestalled and muzzled. From the moment the 

 saloon boss of Cincinnati spoke, the wishes of 

 500,000 Republicans of Ohio were over-ridden and 

 disregarded. It was as pitiable a spectacle as a great 

 party of a great State ever presented, or, rather, as 

 pitiable a spectacle as one boss and a few politicians 

 who wished his support have ever made of the great 

 party which they assume to own. 



Every thinking Republican in Ohio knows this to 

 be true. Every thinking Republican in Ohio knows 

 that our State conventions are coming to be nothing 

 more than ratifications of a "slate" made up by Cox 

 and a few others upon whom he smiles. Hanna is 

 gone, and Cox's path is clear — unless the Republican 

 masses of Ohio wake to the situation and drive the 

 jraft-polluted boss from his place of di tatorship. 

 The time is now. Herrick is hardly more than a 

 shadow in the contest that is on. Behind him stalks 

 the polluted hulk of Cox, swollen bv the fruits of 

 graft, dangerous because of conscienceless political 

 shrewdness and organization, that make every day a 

 work day in the field of unclean politics. Unchecked 

 now, the Cincinnati boss will stride on to the political 

 stage of Ohio, complete dictator, to subject it to such 

 disgrace as machine-ridden Pennsylvania has suf- 

 fered, and to continue in Cincinnati such political 

 corruption as has disgraced Philadelphia in the sight 

 of the vyhole nation, and made it a political source 

 of c-intaminatioTi of that whole State. 



Will the Republicans of Ohio vote to endorse the 

 dictatorsiiip of Cox — for back of Herrick and all 

 around him is Cox? Will they vote to O. K. his 

 dictation to the last Republican State convention and 

 roll up a majority to approve that he name every 

 Republican State ticket, and import into the State 

 capital his rule of bossism and graft? 



Or will they serve notice on the Republican "or- 

 ganization" of Ohio that Cox must go to the rear; 

 that a man selected at his dictation over the wishes 

 of a great majority of the Republicans of Ohio will 

 not receive the support of the best element of the 

 Republican party of Ohio? Will they not vote to 

 make it clear to party leaders that the Republicans 

 of Ohio want no more "dumb" conventions? 'that 

 they want leaders not bosses? that they want fair 

 "organization"? that they want the maiority of the 

 500,000 Republicans of Ohio to rule the party's af- 

 fairs, and not the word of a junto of machine 

 bosses? that they want a new deal and a square one? 



On this issue alone the Gnsette can not be for Mr. 

 Herrick, and it will not stultify itself by believing 

 one thing and advocating something else. 



But there is another issue for which Mr. Herrick 

 is personally responsible. It was his act as governor 

 of Ohio that has aligned him with the saloon and 

 rum element of the v.hole State. 



There is no denying the fact as to where the 

 saloon is in this campaign. His picture has adorned 

 the whisky trade papers of Ohio. His praise is 

 found in their ev ry issue. His supporters are 

 •penly saying: "We will get a saloon vote for 

 every temperance and church rote we lose." For 

 the first time in Ohio Republican history the lead- 

 ers ot a Republican campaign are seeking recruits 

 in the saloon, attacking a great temperance organ- 

 ization, and sneerin? at the expressed sentiments of 

 numberless Christian organizations. 



And why? Because (befog the fact, as Mr. Her- 



rick's supporters will) the fact is that Mr. Herrick 

 broke into the Ohio legislature, and. holding his 

 threat of veto over the representatives of the people 

 of Ohio, compelled a modification of a temperance 

 law in favor of the saloon men and brewers of the 

 State. That is the fact. There is no getting away 

 from it. The temperance people of Ohio certainly 

 were not the ones that asked him to do it. They 

 remonstrated from every corner of the State. But 

 the liquor men of the State declared that he had 

 agreed before his election to oppose temperance 

 legislation. And doesn't it look as if he had? His 

 excuse was that it was "unfair" legislation. To 

 whom was it unfair? Was it unfair to the mothers 

 and wives and children who suffer in the cities from 

 the curse and poverty of drink? Was it "unfair" 

 to these helpless ones to have a law passed that 

 would have driven many more saloons from near 

 their wretched homes than can now be voted out? 



There is nothing "unfair" in the law that drives 

 the curse and desolation of the saloon away from 

 the vicinity of the homes of the city poor or the 

 city rich. The saloon is an assassin, a butcherer 

 of helpless women and children, a destroyer of men 

 and deserves no quarter. Yet Mr. Herrick is its de- 

 fender. He guards it from "unfairness" — to the ex- 

 tent of overruling a whole legislature and in the face 

 c Xu- P''?t^st of the combined Christian citizenship 

 of Ohio. He has bid for the saloon's support and got 

 It. And why does he or his supporters ask or ex- 

 pect the temperance people of Ohio to join his saloo« 

 crowd? 



On this issue the temperance people of this State 

 and the lovers of the home can not stand with Mr 

 Hernck. He made his choice, and here the Gazette 

 with thousands of others, parts from his company! 

 \ye won't join the saloon in his support, and we 

 will line up with the forces that stand for tempe'- 

 arce and the home. 



It is said in this campaign that the result in 

 Ohio this year means the support or disapproval of 

 President Roosevelt's administration. This is worse 

 than untrue — it's an insult to the intelligence of 

 every Republican voter. This campaign in Ohio ii 

 on Ohio issues, and every intelligent voter knows it. 

 Ohio is overwhelmingly Republican when Roosevelt 

 is the issue, for nearly half tlie Democrats are with 

 us on that. Think of declaring that this election 

 means the support or condemning of Roosevelt when 

 less than twelve months ago he received 255,000 

 plurality in the State, and since which time not a 

 voice is raised except in his praise, and the press 

 of both parties unanimously uphold his hands in 

 their splendid work of unpartisan patriotism! Is his 

 great administration hanging in the balance that will 

 turn on the election news telling the result of the 

 efforts of the Cox-Herrick combination to control 

 this State? 



The suggestion is insulting to President Roosevelt 

 as well as to the people of Ohio! 



If President Roosevelt were a Republican in Ohio 

 to-day he would fight Coxism and Cox to his last 

 breath, and he would be hated and feared by the 

 Cox-Herrick machine just as he was hated and 

 feared by the Boss Piatt machine in New York 

 State that tried to shelve him by making him vice- 

 president. 



There are other issues on which Myron T. Her- 

 rick is gravely arraigned before the voters of Ohio. 

 His weakness as a man, accusations of broken word 

 and pledges, his disregard of the old soldier, the 

 disaster which threatens his party because of his 

 unwisdom, are charges not disproved. 



But Coxism, foul and dirty, and the saloon, both 

 of wliich Mr. Herrick has made (wittingly or un- 

 wittingly) his allies in this battle, are repelling 

 thousands of voters from him. We are among them. 

 We can't line up with the other crowd for him. 

 We can't do as the private voter can do, "Keep still 

 and vote as we please," unless we dodge the issue 

 — and we don't wish to dodge this issue. We yield 

 to no man in our loyalty to true Republican prin- 

 ciples. During the 13 years that it has been our 

 high privilege to exercise the right of American 

 suffrage we have never scratched a Republican ticket 

 from top to bottom, and have voted nothing else. 

 We heartily support the rest of the Republican 

 ticket in this campaign because we believe it 's 

 made up of honest men who will make good public 

 officers. 



We do not have any quarrel with Republicans 



