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years ago before the state senate's probe committee, to which he refused to submit his canceled checks and pass books; which refusal was advised by his counsel, Harry M. Daugherty; and it was the refusal of the bank through Mr. Guilbert as its president to produce the books which blocked the probe committee's efforts to get at the facts at that time brought the investigation suddenly to a close. These matters were laid before the voters of Ohio in the campaign of 1908, but were hooted at by Republican speakers and editors in the service of the g. O. p. bosses. What have they to say now? In additon with the settlement made with the bank of which Mr. Guilbert is president, suit has also been begun by the attorney general against the receiver of the defunct Merchants and Manufacturers National Bank of Columbus on a claim for $31,809.02 interest on state funds deposited in that bank by Guilbert from 1896 until the state depository law went into effect 1904. It is not charged in this action that Guilbert was paid interest on such deposits, but it is contended by the attorney general that the bank is liable to the state for interest on such deposits. Does anybody believe now that Judson Harmon didn't know what he was talking about when he was running for governor in 1908, or that he has failed to keep his campaign promises?