Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1916 — PROMISE AND PERFORMANCE [ARTICLE]

PROMISE AND PERFORMANCE

“There are commissions on every conceivable subject and commissioners and deputy commissioners are running up and down the state too numerous to mention. Every trustee has two guardians and every county commissioner has five guardians, and if this thing keeps up much longer every man in Indiana will be the guardian of every other man.” —Thomas R. Marshall at Terre Haute, September 9, 1908. Mr. Marshall was elected governor of Indiana in 1908, and the Democratic party has been In power in Indiana continuously since that date. Since 1908 the Democratic party has added to the state’s payroll enough "deserving Democrats” to require the payment of $275,000 annually more than was required in 1908, the last year of the last Republican administration.