Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1904 — Page 6 Advertisements Column 6 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Through unnecessary increases in salaries and in employes, the last Republican legislature added more than $95,000 a year to the expenses of the state. Three thousand dollars of this increase went to the governor, $75,000 to the five judges of the supreme court, and $13,500 to the six appellate court judges. Under this law each of these judges will receive $6,000 annually instead of $4,500. General John McCook has written Senator Fairbanks a letter in which he says that President McKinley wanted the Indiana senator to succeed him as President. It was no secret then nor is it a secret now that McKinley looked upon Roosevelt as a man too unstable for the exalted position of President. The indications that Senator Fairbanks has not learned how to let go appear to be on the increase. He has precedents which he ignores, and among them is the resignation of Judge Parker from the New York court when his salary was $17,000 a year. And to think that Fairbanks’ salary is only $5,000! Another concentrado order has been Issued by Governor Wright in the Philippines and yet President Roosevelt tells us that everything is moving along peacefully there. If old General Weyler were alive how he would laugh at our efforts and our adoption of his Cuban system of “benevolent assimilation."