Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1898 — Page 9 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Knotts tells the saloon men that Mr. Yeoman is a strict prohibitionist, while »he tells the temperance people that he is badly addicted to drink, or leaves that inference. This is amusing to people who know Mr. Yeoman. When that new house is paid for, not including the SIO,OOO to sls,ooothat has been paid above the money received from sale of bonds, Its cost to ibe people will be over $323,000, The state house ££ lndiaftapoli» cost only six times this sum. Some of Our bonds run 35 years. The published report of the county auditor for 1897 fails to mention that temporary loan of $4,000 in any way, either in county receipts or as outstanding indebtedness. Still “there was nothing secret nor underhanded about it.,’ Had the taxpayers looked the records through from stem to stern, interviewed the commissioners, auditor, treasurer and half a dozen others, they woul<i have found ont all about it Yet some people are foolish enough to think such matters should be given in the published statements of the county’s financial condition. The Democrat challenged the ring organs several weeks ago to to prove by affidavit of three of the ninety-two county auditors of Indiana that they usually correct errors of record by cutting out the pages on which the error occurred, or that they had ever, in a single instance, corrected an error in that way. Every one of the three republican organs here had positively stated that it was a very common occurrence, but it is noticeable that they have not shown np with a solitary affidavit or statement from any newspaper, office-holder or ex-office holder that such was the case, and have kept very quiet about the matter ever since. We still contend that the removal of those four pages from Commissioners’ Record No. 10, right from among records where the commissioners were contracting right and left for extras on the new court house, was a moat unheard of proceeding, and also a criminal one.