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Longer terms, beginning in 1966, would go to the governor, the lieutenant-governor, the secretary, the treasurer and receiver-general, the attorney-general, and the auditor...
...lose him," said the warden. "Where else could I get an intelligent, dedicated man who is glad to work 15 hours a day, seven days a week?" For six and a half years, Orville Enoch Hodge had been a model prisoner at Menard Penitentiary. The jovial Illinois state auditor who was talked of as a future Governor until he was caught embezzling $1,450,000 from the taxpayers, spent his time teaching classes on how to run a bulldozer, broadcasting as the prison's disk jockey. Now 58 and leaving on parole, Hodge was headed for Granite City...
Nowhere in the U.S. did Republicans score greater 1962 election successes than in Ohio: Republican Auditor James A. Rhodes walloped Democratic Governor Mike Di Salle by 555,000 votes, one of the biggest gubernatorial majorities in the state's history; the G.O.P. also gained two seats in Congress, widened its margin in the lower house of the state legislature, won decisive control of the state senate. As always, the winning candidates posed for pictures and gave interviews. Yet almost all of them would readily have admitted that the man most responsible for the victory was State Chairman Ray Charles...
Among the many things that annoyed Di Salle in 1962 was his inability to come to grips with his gubernatorial opponent, State Auditor James Rhodes, 52, who was backed by a highly efficient organization under State Chairman Ray Bliss. As mayor of Columbus from 1943 to 1953 and as auditor ever since, Rhodes was widely known to Ohioans as an able administrator who knew the value of a buck. In his campaign against Di Salle, he advanced no adventurous new programs, declined to debate or even discuss specific issues. That left Di Salle a roly-poly mass of frustration...
...anger, Di Salle launched a savage attack against Rhodes, charged that the auditor's office had fraudulently purchased adding machines, accused Rhodes of diverting $54,000 worth of campaign contributions to his personal use. Di Salle's onslaught blew up in his face. Last week Rhodes carried 84 of the state's 88 counties, won even in Cleveland, and was elected by the biggest plurality ever given an Ohio gubernatorial candidate...