Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1920 — STATE SAVED ENORMOUS SUMS [ARTICLE]

STATE SAVED ENORMOUS SUMS

REPUBLICANS SAVES THE STATE A HALF MILLION ON COAL ALONE. • Im + It sounds strange to talk economy or to recognize such a thing, in all the landslide waste of billions Of the Wilson administration. Yet the Republican saved hundreds of thousands. The state officials were driven to increase the property levies or. bankrupt the state. The Democrats knew this, yet they are so unpatriotic and so dead to honor, and dead set to get back to power "that they have lost no chance to denounce Goodrich and charge him with all the»ill they could conceive. Yet: The state administration saved $26,000 on auto license signs. The state administration saved the penal institute from a big loss to a profit of |li,ooo last year. The state of Indiana saved over $400,000 to the taxpayers on the purchase of coal for the state institutions alone., The dealers were trying to force a $6 price. It was Contracted after a two months dispute and advertisements for ind® three times at $3.20 per ton at mine. The state of Indiana put the Indiana State Prison on * basis. It cost in 1918 over W.m a ye : r r ofi? e of t ATM? OV«iiW IUOWWffWViW anu V ■ alpdls vpcpivcd in 1916 unuCT Kai*

recovered a total of $30,673.66 while the Eschbach board paid all expenses in 1920 and made $182,962.22 over all expenses. The state administration supreme court department collected tens of thousands of dollars in fees that Democratic clerks refused to collect and in additional fees alone the clerk has collected enough to pay all the running expenses of his office and much more. . The state administration in the state auditor’s office shows net receipts of Republican administration over Ralston (Democrat) administration of $1,430,982.72, an increase of 64 per cent —a balance of profit over expense 0f5976,177.33. As To Coal. The state Republican administration organized the Fuel Commission. It was necessary in a grave crisis. Indiana coal was selling in* Indianapolis at $lO to ton, and in Vincennes at $8 to $9. Prices were brought down to $6.25 Indiana coal, a net saving of three dollars a ton to the masses of the people of Indiana. The saving is enormous in Indiana, and after a whole lot of opposition and heated talk, the coal men fell in line with the Commission and agreed to hold a steadier price.. This accomplished the saying in coal to the people which will amount to five million ($5,000,000) a month all .winter. It will be a saving of at least to the taxpayers. \ This is the record of 'the present administration. Yet the people give them little credit for it. We have here shown millions in the state saved—real economies practiced. Yet mendacious lying is trying to destroy 7 this good, i If these sums were not saved, taxes would 'be higher. Millions saved to the people and yet it is 1 all so small compared to the loss i and squandering of billions at Wash-, ington, where 300,000 useless clerks are kept on the pay roll because they are Democratic swivel chair experts, and Democratic political agitators.