Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1910 — State Accounting Board Does Wonders and Costs Wonders, Too. [ARTICLE]

State Accounting Board Does Wonders and Costs Wonders, Too.

The Indianapolis Star, in big head lines, tells how the accounting board has caused $21,446 to be paid back into the various townships and praises the law. Since the work of these accountants was started the expense has been between $200,000 and $300,000. Only $21,446 has been recovered. We should like to know where the poor taxpayer receives any benefit. As the Republican Baid last spring, we believe in a uniform system of accounting and enough men employed at reasonable salaries to put it into force. But we are opposed to this bold-up. It is a simple outrage to have these $2.50 clerks receiving $lO per day and forcing their services on unwilling taxpayers. It is not a reform; it is as rotten a graft as was ever perpetrated in Indiana. It had the endorsement of the Indianapolis Business Men’s Association. Why? Because it means a big and expensive headquarters in Indianapolis with a high salaried chief, some 25 clerks and a $5,000 Job for some lawyer. It has resulted in the payment of $21,446 and has cost the taxpayers from ten to fifteen times that amount. Would any private business or sensible business man stand for it? No. And Governor Marshall should not stand for it either.