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Take the case of Mrs. Winifred Mason Huck. Some two months ago, she visited with her friends Governor and Mrs. Victor A. Donahey of Ohio. The Governor, noted for his interest in prison reform, wished to find out about prison conditions for women. A friend charged Mrs. Huck with stealing his overcoat. She pleaded guilty, was sentenced to six months in jail. She spent three days in the Cleveland jail amid bummers, dope users and bad food (according to her account); then was sent with a Negress bootlegger to the prison at Marysville. There she lived with female murderers...
Imprisoned for three days for speeding was Hal Donahey, 18-year-old son of Governor A. Vic Donahey of Ohio, eminent Democratic hero of last November's elections. His father refused to intercede in his behalf...
Said Mrs. Donahey: "We may drop in at the prison Sunday...
...strong men of the states?they whose currents of popularity are stronger than the tide of public sentiment in a national election?are few and far between. In this election, they were two, with 500 miles between? Governor Al Smith in New York and Governor Vic Donahey in Ohio...
...Donahey, however, though not so well advertised, performed a feat as great. As he did in 1922, so did he again sweep himself into office, although both times the state went Republican, and in the last case Coolidge ran 600,000 votes ahead of Davis. But Vic? who was farmer and father of 10 chil dren before he was politician, Vic of old Scotch Presbyterian stock, Vic who keeps convicts, mainly ex-murderers as servants in the Executive Mansion, Vic who roars and pounds his desk as if making one unending campaign speech ? induced the people of Ohio...