Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1916 — Democrats Secure Over $10,000,000 Extra. [ARTICLE]

Democrats Secure Over $10,000,000 Extra.

Here in Indiana the democratic spellbinders would like to talk about anything else than that which the republican speakers will present to the voters. The republicans have a notion that the matter of reckless expenditures of public money are subjects that the voters of Indiana will want to hear discussed this year, and the republican speakers are laying plans to enlighten them on the record that the democratic party in Indiana has made during the past eight years. For months past the democratic politicians have been bragging loud and long because of the fact that during the past eight years they have paid approximately $1,500,000 on Indina’s public debt. The republicans during the preceding eight years, had paid about three times as much as that on the debt, but the democratic boasters never refer to that record. Here is a question that will be ask-

ed the democratic spellbinders more than once during the coming campaign: “Why was but $1,500,000 paid on the debt when the democrats gatW ered from the taxpayers of the state during the past seven years $10,344,459.81 more than was collected during the last two republican administrations?” -