Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1890 — THE STATE DEBT. [ARTICLE]

THE STATE DEBT.

Who Created It and What Became ot the Money. - The Books Opened and the Facts Stated. Tbs foreign debt of Indiana as stated by the republican auditor is $8,056,615.12. Of this amount the republican party created $4,853,783.12 and the democratic party $3,202,832. When the question is asked what become of the $4,853,783.12, the debt which the republican party created, organa and orators are silent. There are no assets. How stands the case when it is required to know what beoome of the $3,202,832 for which the democratic party is responsible. _ A . ■v The answer is: The new state-house required $700,000, the hospitals for the insane at Evansville, Richmond and Logansport. $1,500,000; total, $2,200,000. ThesoldW and Bailors’ orphans home at Kniehtstown, the institution for the feeble-minded of the state at Fort Wayne, the new normal building at Terre Haute, the new additional building toy the institute for the blind at Indianapolis, the new school the deaf and dumb at Indian