Through the years
he has insisted that government must deal with its problem by
evolution lest revolution overtake it. It was this sentiment
that led him to deal with the industrial injury matter. When he
heard men inveighing against the courts, a discerning eye knew
something was wrong and he gave his attention to righting that
wrong. His creed, not recently as a candidate, but in the years
of his public career, has been expressed in this summary: "Our
view is toward the sunrise of tomorrow with its progress and its
eternal promise of better things."
The expression is found so frequently in his state documents
that it might properly be set forth in the form of a creed. But
there has been more than what the great Roosevelt called "lip-
service to progress. The forward steps became a part of the
laws.
In health affairs he asked for the appointment of a commission
to study the need for adequate local administration and he urged
its adoption before the General Assembly so forcefully that Ohio
to-day has what is universally recognized to be the best system
in America. In placing the state department upon a footing
commensurate with other institutions of government, case was
taken to place it where it cannot be prostituted to
partisanship. There has been a growing number of governmental
departments under Governor Cox in which partisanship is utterly
forbidden. They include the Board of Administration, dealing
with the wards of the state, the social agencies, the
educational, and the Fish and Game Department.
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