Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 284, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1912 — COST BEVERIDGE $648 DURING CAMPAIGN [ARTICLE]

COST BEVERIDGE $648 DURING CAMPAIGN

Expense Accounts Filed With Secrctary of State Show That the Candidates Got Off Cheap. _ix The campaign expense account of Albert J. Beveridge, progressive nominee for governor, amounted to $648, according to his statement filed Monday with the secretary of state. More than half of this amount was for hotel bills. Porters and waiters received $17.50 in “tips” from Mr. Beveridge. His expenses were as follows: Railroad, interurban and Pullman car fares, $123.50; hotels, $385.50; automobile hire, $33.50; cab hire, $6:50; telegraph and telephone calls, $41.65; stenographers, $7.50; postage stamps sl6; waiters, porters, etc., $17.50; express $3.95; transfers, 65 cents; incidentals, $11.75. W. H. O’Brien, democrat, .who was re-elected auditor of state, spent $1,446.80. Of this amount $1,125 represented contributions to the democratic state committee. He also made a donation of $132 to the Dearborn county central committee. It cost Judge Leander J. Monks $3.25 to be re-elected. This amount went to a printer. Clifford F. Jackman, of Huntington, progressive nominee for attorney general, spent $181.95. The expenses of F. Henry Wurzer, of South. Bend, the republican nominee for the same office, were $1.55 more than those of Mr. Jackman. D. Robinson, republican nominee for judge of the supreme court, spent $56.90 for traveling expenses and newspaper advertising. The expenses of Lawson N. Mace, progressive nominee for secretary of state were $122.05. D. O. Skillen, of Delaware county, reported the expenses of the republican state county option committee were $845. He was treasurer of the committee.