Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1906 — THE TICKET. [ARTICLE]

THE TICKET.

Wot tservUry of State— JAMES F. COX. Tor Treasurer of State— JOHN IBENBARQER. Too Auditor of State — MARION BAILEY. For Attorney General— WALTER J. LOTZ. Tor Clork of Supreme Court— BURT NEW. For Superintendent Publle I net motion ROBERT J. ALEY. Tor State Geoloflet— EDWARD BARRETT. For State Statistician— DAVID N. CURRY. For Judge Supreme Court, First District— EUGENE A. ELY. Tor Judge Supreme Court, Fourth Diet.— RICHARD ERWIN. 900 Judgea Appellate Court, First DIrL—MILTON B. HOTTEL. Q. W. FELT. For Judgea Appellate Court, Second Diet— RICHARD R. HARTFORD. HENRY Q. ZIMMERMAN. HENRY A. BTEIB. “Elks are [touring in,” says a Denver dispatch. That’s a hapit the Elks have. If it were not funny it would be sad to see how a rioh man’s wealth melts away when the tax assessor comes into view. Detroit is going to give the people cheap municipal ice. This will hurt the feelings of the ice trust more than a few tines. Now that appendicitis has become so common, the wealthy are taking more and more to the fasnion of gettiug hurt in automobile accidents. In the Comming political campaign for Cougress the Republicans will hav one Cannon and a number of squirt guns. Considering that the administration has had full swing at Panama and ail the money it asked for for over two years, it is rather disheartening ts hear secretary Tast say the American people are in too big a hurry to see the dirt flyJ. F. Lewis, attorney for the anti-saloon league in Indiana, in discussing operations of the liquor laws at Winona, said that Hooaier temperance workers find satisfaction in the fact that in the last year they held all the “dry” territory, including three oounties that are absolutely dry, with seventeen others that have saloons in but one ward of their cities, and there are in the state 649 townships and forty oitiea without licensed saloons. In other words over half the townships are “dry.”

The Indiana Republican newspapers are printing the following paragraph: “It is well to keep in mind the fact that the Republicans of Indiana have not paid more than seven millions of the Btate debt in ten years by excessive tax levies, bat by economy in the management of the state’s business and by applying to the purpose that proceeds of a law that requires the fees received in the state offices to be turned into the treasury for the use and benefit of the people.” The Democratic tax law of 1891, supplement by the state debt sinking law passed by the Democratic legislature of 1893, provided a just and equitable system for paying off the state debt. In many Republican counties the appraisements and levies have been juggled to the burden of the taxpayers, but that is not the fault of the tax law. The Democratic law provided the money for paying the state debt and fixed it so that this money could not be used for any other purpose. All that the Republicans can claim now is that they did not steal it. What they would have done if it had not been chained down is another question. The claim of “economy in the management of the state’s business” has no foundation whatever. It is absolutely and unqualified untrue. This has been shown time and again. Among other things there are nine offices in the statehouse which cost the people the last year the Democrats w'ere in power, $132,160. These same offioes administered by the Republicans cost in 1905 the sum of' $297,112. Thiß is a difference of $164,952 in favor of the Democrats, or practically 125 per cent. If an increaseof 125 per cent in the cost of these offices alone in twelve years is “economy” we should like to know what extravagance is.