Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1913 — Governor Marshall Did Not Get That New $7,000 Auto. [ARTICLE]

Governor Marshall Did Not Get That New $7,000 Auto.

Thos. R. Marshall, who will be known in the future as the man who restored saloons to some fifty townships in Indiana and who started the raise in the state tax levy, will have to struggle along in an old automobile. The House of Representatives struck from the general deficiency bill the proposition to buy a new $7,000 automobile for his use.

The United States government usually follows a very liberal plan with its high officers and that is a correct course to pursue, but it seems so very queer that the VicePresident would be hankering for a $7,000 auto at government expense when only five years ago ihe was elected governor of Indiana after a campaign in which he talked extensively about the extravagance of our office holders and told how former governors had lived in houses for which the state paid the rent and how his pride would not permit the state to pay for a house for him. And now only five years after he was so enthused'over the “commoner” bombast he wants the government to buy him a $7,000 auto, provide a driver and take care of the upkeep. And Marshall is the man who quit practicing law and entered politics so that his conscience could have breathing room. Tom’s -tootsies seem to be in ft a big lot of the time.