Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1899 — The Political Pot. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Political Pot.

It takes 378 employes to look after the wants of Missouri’s lawmakers. The present State Government of Indiana, executive and judicial, is for the first time in many years Republican. Last year New York State spent nearly $22,000,000 on various public charities," The beneficiaries of this enormous sum numbered 2,500,000 persons. Judge Ross, successor in the Senate of the late Justin S. Morrill, has long flowing white whiskers, surpassing the crop that drew attention to Senator Peffer. San Francisco’s city hall is completed at last. It was begun twenty-seven years ago and the salary of the men in charge of it was sufficient inducement for them to prolong it to the limit: • There are sixty-five Democrats In the lower branch of the Massachusetts Legislature to 105 Republicans, though at last year’s election the Republicans Carried every county in that State and had a popular plurality of 83,000. Ex-Gov. Loedy of Kansas expresses publicly the private opinion that officeholding is unprofitable—for an honest man. Speaking about his late job he says: “It’s only $3,000 a year, and the way they pull a Governor’s leg he has little left.” In order to prevent sneak legislation, Gov. Roosevelt of Ncqr York insists on the lawmakers observing strictly the rule requiring all parts of bills which change existing law shall be printed In italics. .That Is one effective way of checking mischievous legislation.