Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1912 — Page 3

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ocratlc financial policy. Now, as to the facts. The tax law as in substance it stands, today, was reported unanimously in the senate; there was no party division; and it was not enacted, as democratic speakers have told, and will continue to tell you, oyer republican opposition. It is a forceful, practical, revenue producing law, has been ironed out from time to time by the amendments of recent legislatures, and has been modeled after in some of its.- features by a number of other states. As one of my ex-officio duties, while governor of the state, I«had the honor to preside over the boardrand at all times have upheld the excellence of the law in its relations to the taxables of the state. In their hysteria, democratic orators not only claim this law as the child of democratic parentage, but that it had transferred burdens from the agricultural claims to the* corporations, when the facts are the initial increased assessment of the tax board was $86,005,206 on corporations, while the increases on lands and Improvements was $152,261,225, of lots and improvements, and of personal property, $56,014,458. ’ Less than one-fourth was on corporations, while the tax levy was increased 30 per cent, and just simply as a matter of correction to these dreamland assertions of democratic speakers, that from 1894, the year the board by statute came under republican control, to the end of my term as governor, the Increase of corporation assessments was 21 per cent, and farm lands and improvements 10% per cent. It is foreign to the letter and spirit of the law that its acts in any sense should be squared by politics, and any elaboration I have given proceeds from a purpose to present the facts in refutation of the false democratic claim of parentage. Figures Are Submitted. I now submit some figures comparing the financial record of my administration as Governor with the flnancial record of Governor Marshall’s democratic administration. Payment of state debt principal during Durbin’s four years: 1901 $ 500,000.00 1902 . 1,317,000.00 1903 450,000.00 1904 535,000.00 $2,802,000.00 Average per year, $700,500. Same during Gov. Marshall’s term: 1909 $ 1910 1911 100,000.00 1912 150,000.00 Total ....$ 250,000.00 Average per year, $62,500. Interest paid on public debt during Durbin’s four years: 1901 $ 157,130.22 1902 130,596.04 1903 109,134.80 1904 89,665.50 Total "..$ 486,526.56 Average per year, $121,631.64. Same during Gov. Marshall's three years: 1909 ’...$ 57,027.75 1910 61,512.75 1911 64,437.51 Total $ 182,978.01 The four years' debt payments of the republican administration reduced substantially the liability of the succeeding democratic administration. Advance payments by county treasurers during Durbin’s four years: 1901 ....,.$ 794,370.56 1902 952,326.59 1903 1,104,236.53 1904 1,010,021.71 Total .$3,860,955.39 Average per year, $965,238.85. Same during Marshall’s first three years: 1909 $1,277,434.20 1910 1,188,400.00 1911 1,929,569.02 Total $4,395,393.22 Average per year, $1,465,131.07. About Advance Payments. The republican position as to advance payments from county treasurers was that the state’s share of taxes when collected while arbitrarily payable at the semi-annual settlements with the auditor of state, was from its collection an asset of the state. In this connection I digress in reply to an article published several days ago in the Indianapolis Star, by a correspondent, who evidently with considerable unction rehearsed a criticism by my successor, Governor J. Hanly, in his inaugural address. In 1904 the owners of $285,000 3% per cent, bonds due in 1915 offered them to the state on a 3 per cent basis. The state board of finance took up the question. as to whether these bonds should be then paid and the interest saved to the state for a period of eleven years, amounting to about $85,000. The payment of the bonds on the 3 per cent, basis was ordered. The wisdom of this transaction, and the accuracy of the estimates, are proven by the fact that the year, 1895, j ended with a balance to the general fund of $283,998.84. The state saved $85,000 in interest by making the payment at that time, and the treasury ■was not cramped for money during my successor’s administration. I submit this was the part of financial economy and wisdom, and would have been duplicated by any bank or financial agency in the transaction of its own affairs. More Comparisons. Sinking fund collected during Durbin's four years: 1901 X.. 396,043.29 1902 405,413.35 1903 414,498.27 1904 438,400.64 $1,654465.55 General fund applied on

payment of state debt.. 1,147,644.45 Total ...$2,802,000.00 Sinking fund collected during Marshall’s three years: 1909 ....$ 270.742.30 1910 .-. 518,918.31 1911 388,175.99 $1,077,836.60 Sinking fund applied to payment of state debt. .$ 100,000.00 $ 977,836.50 Balance applied on running g expenses of state. Net disbursement of general funds during Durbin’s four years: 1901 $3,022,941.55 1902 3,725,867.84 1903 3,197,496.80 1904 3,398,953.33 Total $13,345,259.52 Average per year, $3,336,314.88. Same during Governor Marshall’s three years: 1909 $4,496,331.04 1910 4,863,926.45 1912 4,625,005.63 Total .....$13,985,262.12 Average per year, $4,328,421.04. Salaries for officers, deputies and clerks during Durbin’s four years: 1901 $ 362,047.89 1902 384,598.18 1903 396,244.29 1904 410,025.91 Total ..’....g.51,552,916.28 Average per year, $388,229.07. Same during Marshall’s three years: 1909 $ 545,655.03 1910 552,134.03 1911 571,500.64 Total ..$1,669,289.70 Average per year, $556,429.90. Expenses of Boards. Salaries and expenditures of standing boards and commissions during Durbin’s four years: 1901 $ 146,730.09, 1902 123,846.19' 1903 - 128,669.16 1904 162,885.16 “Total 7. .T.. ~.“s 562,130-60 Average per year, $140,532.65. Same during Marshall’s three years: l? 09 $ 309,610.38 1910 274,502.28 1911 342,006.03 - --- : T- •- T ■> Total $ 926,118.69 Average per year, $308,706.23. Salaries and expenditures of temporary boards and commission s,„ including monuments erected during Durbin’s four years: 1901 $ 7,787.39 1902 '. K 2,923.25 1903 37,801.80 1904 123,377.31 (The latter includes $112,866.86, cost of world’s fair), and totals $191,889.75, an average excluding world’s fair expense, of $14,765,75. Same during Governor Marshall’s three years: 1909 $ 51,964,52 1910 24,028.31 1911 8,531.95 Total $ 84,524.78 Average per year, $28,174.93. Expenditures of boards collecting and disbursing their own fees, and using no state funds: 1901 $ 12,657.33 1902 15,400.17 1903 17,445.44 1904 26,615.52 Total $ 72,118.46 Average per year, $18,029.61. Same during Governor Marshall’s first three years: 1909 $ 65,383.26 1910 85,693.39 1911 86,611.03 Total $ 217,687.68 Average per year, $72,562.56. Miscellaneous items paid during Durbin’s four years: 1901 $ 10,707.89 1902 1,379.96 1903 16,096.94 1904 100.00 Total .......$ 28,284.79 Average per year, $7,071.20. Same during Governor Marshall’s three years: 1909 ..$ 3,579.95 1910 21,583.51 1911 5,044.45 Total $ 37,207.91 Average per year, $11,069.39. Cost of Legislature. Cost of the two legislative sessions during Durbin’s four years: 1901 $ 116,268.10 1903 120,999.71 Total $ 236,267.81 Average, $118,133.90. Least of legislative sessions during Governor Marshall’s three years: 1909 ..$ 143,049.50 1910 131,870.98 Total ~,s 274,920 48 Average, $137,460.24. Cost of state capitol, including repairs, heat, light, water, improvements and labor during Durbin’s four years: 1901 $ 40,381.08 1902 43,612.87 1903 47,151.21 1904 44,428.13 Total $ 175,573.29 Average per year, $43,893=32. Same during Marshall's three years: 1909 $ 64,757.94 1910 50,454.72 1911 52,342.73 Total $ 167,565.41 Average per year, $55,855.14. Spent on maintenance and other current expenses for all state institutions during Durbin’s four years: 1901 $1,431,349,78 1902 1,443,353.59 1903 1,453,286.67 1904 ...... 1,590,714.06 S Total $5,918,704.10 Average, $1,479,676.02. ■ Same during Marshall’s three year*: 1909 $2,068 986.55 1910 2,209,233.31 1911 Total .... $6,633,0i5?

Average, $2,211,020.38. Expended for permanent improvements to old and new buildings and grounds during DurbiiTs four years: I 1901 $ 308,481.55 1902 349,551.40 1903 281,923.98 1904 298,481.95 Total $1,238*,438.88 Average, $309,609.72. Same during Marshall’s three years: 1909 $ 997,044.80 1910 1,449,257.95 1911 731,982.15 Total .$3,177,384.90 Average, $1,059,128.30. The Sinking Fund. State debt sinking fund used to pay runnings expenses of state government during Durbin's four years: 1901 to 1904.. Nothing Same during Marshall’s first three years.. $ 977,836.30 Cost of governor’s office, exclusive of contingency and emergency funds during Durbin’s four years: 1901 $ 11,182.59 1902 11,796.14 1903 12,037.92 1904 12,236.69 Total $ 47,253.34 Average per year, $11,813.33. Same during Marshall’s three years: 1909 $ 15,772.49 1910 ...,... 16,302.86 1911 16,314.79 Total $ 48,490.14 Average, $16,163.38. Previous years balances and net receipts to general fund: 1901 .. .$3,437,260.94 1902 4,033,861.90 1903 3,357,364.64 1904 3,459,555.26 Net disbursements: 1901 $3,022,941.55 1902 3,725,867.40 1903 3,254,566.16 1904 3,398,853.33 Balance remaining in treasury: 1901 $ 414,319.39 1902 .\ 307,994.50 1903 102,798.48 1904 60,601.93 Same during Marshall’s three years: Previous years’ balances and net receipts to general funds: 1909 $4,580,311.06 1910 4,956,694.80 1911 4,677,528.33 Net disbursements: 1909 $4,496,531.04 1910 4,863,926.45 1911 4,625,005.63 Balance remaining in treasury: 1909 .$ 83,980.02 1910 92,768.35 1910 52,522.60 State Bureau of Inspection. For the alleged purpose of bettering the service and conditions surrounding factories and employees, the state bureau of inspection was created. The year 1910, was the last full year of the old department of inspection, the state labor commission and the state mine inspector. In that yeat year the cost of these departments was $29,918.55. The state board of inspection has not yet been in operation a full fiscal year and we can only take the provision of the act as the basis of its cost. The act, true to democratic practices, provides for a big chief, inspectors, etc., etc., with a salary list of $33,800 as a starter. There are fifteen assistants and three inspectors provided for, a total of eighteen men, whose all around duty is to “Inspect,” and these patriotic gentlemen with their traveling and incidental expenses will make an annual additional expenditure of right at $50,000. The master purpose seem* to have been particularly to legislate fourteen republicans out of office and make places for twenty-five democrats. County Loval Option. There is no question in which the people of this state are toddy as deeply and as vitally interested as the problem of control of the liquor traffic. In my last message to the legislature, submitted nearly eight years ago, I called attention to the growing feeling among the people of the state that the liquor traffic should be held to a stricter accountability, and warned the'liquor interests that persistence in the course they had apparently adopted would result in the rapid increase of that sentiment. In the light of what has since happened in Indiana that expression now seems prophetic. Even the opposition party, subservient as it is to brewery control, was driven two years ago from its historic attitude against sumptuary legislation to a declaration in favor of local option with the township and city as the unit. I submit that the acceptance of local option in any form is in itself a complete justification of county local option—for there is but one logical unit of local government affecting an Institution that must be dealt with by county officials, and that is the county unit. The theory that the farmer has no legitimate interests in that which exists at the county seat, where and for which in part he must pay his taxes, where he must transact much of his business, where his children must go, and from which they may come bearing the marks of the saloon upon them, is untenable. Even the law written by the brewery attorneys for enactment by the last legislature recognizes the legitimate authority of the county by providing a county as well as a town and city license. The complaint is made that the liquor question, the saloon question, has no place in. politics. I answer 1 that the liquor interests of Indiana put this question into politics, and they have kept it there. - ■■ “ County local option was adopted as republican platform principle four years ago. A. republican legislature placed a county focal option law upon, the statute books; a republican governor signed it. I. believed two years ago that the- republican party should have the courage to commend

Its own work to stand by what it | had done. I declared myself publicly ( to this effect prior to the last republican state convention. But at the republican state convention of 1910 the influences in control of the convention abandoned this issue, and while endorsing every other important enactment of the republican party in Indiana, treated this measure with significant silence. The republican party, for the first time in its history, deliberately turned its back on an important part of the republican party. And it fell at the end of that campaign, not as a shot, but shot in the back—running away from a responsibility. If elected governor of Indiana, I shall, in fulfillment of this platform pledge of my party. endeavor to have restored to the statute books the county local option law. A Word to the Soldiers. I ahi addressing many of my comrades in the war of *6l to T>s and the war of ’9B. I call your attention to the plank in the republican state platform favoring legislation in the interests of the soldiers of the union, their widows and orphans. But I particularly wish to call your attention to the pension platform plank of the third term candidate for the presidency. It reads: “We pledge ourselves to a wise and just policy of pensioning American soldiers and sailors and their widows and children by the federal government.”——r-— 7 - - . ■ ■ - “American soldiers,” mind you—a term broad enough to inelude those who fought against as well as those who fought for the flag in the sixties. It has been seriously proposed in congress to pension the soldiers of the confederacy. The platform further says: “And we approve the policy of the southern states in granting pensions to the ex-confederate Soldiers and sailors and their widows and children.” Taken in connection with the deci, sion of the third term candidate that his party will have nothing to do with the negro in the states where, in violation of the constitution, he has been disfranchised and reduced to a state of practical peonage—denying that the constitution follows the flag south of the Ohio, we see that instead of abandoning merely the name and not the principles of historic republicanism, the third term candidacy stands for the leveling of the union soldier down in his claim upon the nation’s gratitude to the same status as the confederate soldier, and for the abandonment of the southern negro to the condition of servitude from which Lincoln sought to save him—a task in which he gave up his life. Law Enforcement. As governor I shall stand for law enforcement. The enforcement of law is essential to the preservation of our liberties. I commend especially, that plank in the republican state platform which calls for the speedy removal of Incompetent, corrupt or inefficient officials —whose continuance in authority is one of the most prolific sources of lawlessness. Bosses and Bossism. The people are justly aroused against bosses and bossism. We have had too much of both. I have been saying that out loud for several years. We have had too many snap caucuses; too many polluted primaries; too much 7 manipulation both in politics and government that has fooled, outraged and incensed the people. This has been peculiar to no party and no locality. The republican state platform declares for the enactment of laws providing for the promary nomination of local officials, and the primary election of delegates to congressional, state and national conventions, these elections to be safeguarded by the Australian ballot and corrupt practices acts. To Indiana republicans disposed to wander away from their old household of faith —I Recognize the entire honesty and sincerity of many of these —let me say a word. Before you go where you’re looking look where you’re going. There are bosses in the old party, their power is on the wane. There are bosses in the new party as odious as any in the party that has claimed your allegiance; they are in absolute control. The republican party is not going to die because of mere differences as to management and leadership. If there have been abuses within the party who is to blame? Are those leading the assault upon it, and who in conspicuous places of republican leadership have had all to do with shaping its history for the past dozen years, to be held blameless? Study the men who would lead you astray, and weigh their motives, consider well whether they seek power or the public good. As leaders of the republican party did these men advocate what they now profess to believe? Did—-they seek to inaugurate the reforms withinUie party the absence of which their pretext for secession? DI (Knot most of these men seek place and power within the republican party/ sometimes by the very methods they/now denounce? And do they not owe to that party their present standing and influence? Would they not be satisfied today to remain within the republican party if only their names were substituted for the names of the men who have succeeded them in leadership? Think it over. Under our system of imposing valuation upon such property I believe it is safe to say that the man with small possessions pays many times more fe proportion than the man with large property list. I believe that personal property up to a certain value—say s6oo—should be free from, taxation. and that we should reach a better basis of valuation and a fairer adjustment of the burdens of taxation through legislative and. if necessary, constitutional changes.

THE REAL THING.

“What’s doing in the way of amusements?" asked the newcomer of the old inhabitants of Hades. “Baseball .game every , afternoon,” answers the old inhabitant. “Baseball? You don't mean it! That’s great! I was a fan from ’way back on earA. On the square, do you have baseball every day?” “Sure thing.” “By ginger! This place suits me. Baseball! Say, this can’t be hell, then?” “Yes, it is. The home team always loses.”

Couldn't Deny IL

“You’re a two-faced man!” exclaimed the disappointed officeseeker. “I’m not afraid to tell you so.” ~ “Two faced?” smiled the eminent statesman; “my dear friend, I am worse than that The papers have printed fifty different portraits of me, and no two of them look alike.”

Quite So.

"Jiblots asked me about my garden. Confound his Impertinence! I haven’t any garden and never expect to have one.” “Well, don’t get huffy. The fact that he gave you credit for being considerably more industrious than you really are is a compliment.”

HAD NO FEARS.

Kindhearted Lady—Ah, poor man; don’t you know that you will fill a drunkard’s grave? Waggles—Ro, madam; I expect to be cremated.

Hard Work.

His industry he doth parade, Who hath a little garden made; Though often, with a weary air, He moped his brow and stopped to swear.

Forty-Seven Short.

First Fly—What’s the matter with your eyes? Second Fly—l strained ’em counting my eggs. One of the swatters says the average fly lays sixty-seven thousand eggs. First Fly—How did you come out? Second Fly—l think I’m about fortyseven short.

For the Defense.

A noted critic and literary adviser said at the Authors’ club in New York: “A reader—whether for a magazine or for a publisher—doesn’t read the whole of every manuscript Why should he? Do I have to eat a whole cheese to tell whether it’s good or not?”

A Warden’s Dilemma.

Biggs—l see that a lot of convicts in a state penitentiary have struck because they don’t like the food. Diggs—Yes, and it’s awfully hard bn the warden. “What is?” “Why, the fact that he can’t say to the kickers, 'if you don't like the food, get out’ ”

THEY’D SCRATCH IT UP.

Pious—The Bible says, you know, that whatever you sow you shall also reap. Suburbs —But suppose your neighbors keep chickens?

It Doth.

Doth seem as If •We juet can’t wait To greet the sweet Girl graduate. -

Getting Near IT

"If she told you her ago you mb surely figure out when she was bora.” “Judging from what she told me her age was, I should say she was bora on her fourteenth birthday.” > /

Quite Likely.

"My Ideal is a husband who wduM read my heart Ilka a book.” *Tm afraid, my dear, he would satisfy himself with the pretty blading."

CLASSIFIED COLIIHIH BATES TOB CXUMWUTED ADS. Three Unas or less, per week of six Issues of The Evening Republican and two of The Semi-Weekly Republican, 25 cents. Additional space pro rata, -g FOB SALE. For Sale—One 3-year-old black mule, 15% hands, gentle, broken. One 12-year-old small work mule. One grade Jersey cow. One mile west of town, cemetery road, Russell Van Hook. For Sale —Young full blood Durham calf. F. M. Abbott. Phone 216. For Sale —At the Rosebud Farm. Duroc Jersey and O. I. C. swine, either sex, spring farrow. Boars, boars, boars red, Guaranteed pure bred. Boars, boars, boars white, Boars with breeding guaranteed right. AMOS H. ALTER & SON, _*'/ J".. .. L .' ' ...... Parr, Ind. For Sale—At Rosebud Farm. 300 bushels Mediterranean seed wheat, last year’s crop, recleaned, $1.25 per bushel, Amos H. Alter & Son, Parjr, Ind. For Sale—Boxes and barrels. Jarrette’s Variety Store. For Sale —A new ensilage cutter and Johnson corn binder. Marlon I. Adams & Son. Phone 533-L. For Sale—Turkey Red seed wheat, hard, recleaned, $1.25 per bushel. Marion I. Adams, phone 533-L. , For Sale —2 kitchen tables, sideboard, dining chairs, dining, table, bookcase, luncheon table, 2 center tables. Mrs. C. George, Phone 248. For Sale—Good large well-built twostory house, all in good repair, good well and cistern, fine shade and fruit trees, grape arbor. Located three blocks from court house, on paved street, cement walks and drains all in. For particulars write or call on Chas. J. Dean & Son, Real Estate Dealers, Rensselaer, Indiana. For Sale—Get a good home where you have enough land for garden, fruit, poultry, and place to keep a horse and cow. We have a fine 10-acre tract with good house and barn, good well, all fenced and located within the corporate limits of the city of Rensselaer, for sale at a reasonable price. For particulars write or call on Chas. J. Dean & Son, Rensselaer, Indiana. For Sale—Oak lumber. Select white oak and burr oak for barns, cribs, sheds, etc., also floor joists, studding and rafter* for house*. Will saw to any dimensions in any quantities at a very reasonable price. Bridge lumber a specialty. See or write Ben D. McColly or Leslie Alter, phone 521-E, Rensselaer. WANTED. (Wanted—-Girl tor general housework. Phone 411 or 413. C. Earl Duvall. Wanted—A dining room girl at the Hotel Makeever. Wanted—Girl to work in the kitchen at the Makeever Hotel. Wanted—For the keeping, a good, reliable, gentle horse, to drive a abort distance during the school term. C. M. Blue, Lock Box 304. Wanted—3 or 4 high school boys to board. 20 cents a meal, room included. Phone 358; postoffice L. B. 582. Wanted—Men for building wooden freight cars. Those handy with ordinary tools can soon learn. Also common laborers. Car Works, Michigan City, Ind. LOST. Lost—Pair spectacles in case, between my residence and Parr. Finder please return. John E. Alter, Phone 521-E. - FOB RENT. For Rent—6-room house, 4 blocks southeast of public square. J. C. Passons. For Bent—Unfurnished or nicely furnished rooms. Mr*. Claude Krusan, South Weston street, next to C. M. Blue. W. B. DEXTER. W. H. Dexter will pay 28% cent* for butterfat this week. NOTICE TO TAX PAYERS. The Iroquois special assessment has been placed upon the tax duplicate, to be paid with the fall or second installment of taxes. Those who paid their taxes in full for the year will call and pay this special assessment ALSON A FELL, Tvawe liiimit County. . A 1 “«o. Let the people of RMSSoher and Jasper county know what yen have to sell; use The Republican Classified Column.