Rhodes’s instrument for maintaining law and order would be the Ohio National Guard.x Ohio ranked fifth among states in number of civil disturbances but first among states in mobilizing the guard to deal with those disturbances. The Ohio National Guard had been called out thirty-one times in the two years since Rhodes had become governor. It had been called out five times during the preceding five years. Many guardsmen felt Governor Rhodes viewed them as his personal army and called them out too frequently.
