Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1906 — THINGS HANLY DID NOT MENTION [ARTICLE]

THINGS HANLY DID NOT MENTION

In his opening campaign speech Governor Hanly did not mention some things of interest to the public. For Instance, the following: He did not tell that he had borrowed from David E. Sherrick, when he was auditor of state, $760 of the state’s money which he was afterward compelled to pay baAk with interest. He did not refer to the charge that he borrowed from the state oil inspector $2,500 of state funds and that he failed to pay it back when be was asked to do so. He was silent concerning the current report that while he was making his canvas of the state for governoi he met by appointment the notorioui gambler and Republican politician of West Baden and French Lick—the man who was at the head of the "Monte Carlo” business—Ed. Ballard In Jonce Monahan’s bank in Orleans, and received from Ballard a contribution of a large sum of money for his personal campaign expenses. He did not owplain how it has happened that the same Ed. Ballard, gambler and Republican politician and head and front of the “Monte Carlo" business in West Baden and the French Lick valley, has not been arrested by his officers, though Ballard, it is said, makes no attempt at concealment.

He did not tell why he refused to pay Interest on $1,334 which he collected for the city of Lafayette, kept for more than six years and only paid over to the city on demand when hj was entering upon his race for governor. He did not tell how, to gratify a petty spite against a Democratic newspaper, he directed the whitewashing of charges of gross mismanagement and cruelty against the superintendent of the Girls' Industrial School. He did not tell how many extra "legal advisers” he has employed to do work which should have been done toy the salaried force in the attorneygeneral’s office. He was careful not to give the figures showing how much of his $40,000 contingent fund he has paid out during this year for "extra legal advisers," "experts,” "secret agents" and similar things. He said nothing about drawing salary from the state treasury at the rate of s3l a day while working for hire in other employments. He neglected to tell, if he pays only S9OO a year house rent, what becomes of the balance of the SI.BOO a year appropriated for house rent.

He did not tell that the last session of the legislature increased the taxation for general state expenses about $5*00.000 a year by raising the general fund levy three cents on the SIOO. He did not tell that the state up to October 31, 1905 was compelled to draw on the counties for advances to the extent of $994,000 in order to meet its obligations. He did not tell that the state for the fiscal year ending Oct. 31, 1905, received and disbursed $9,260,827 which was $3,000,000 in excess of the receipts and expenditures for the last year the Democrats were in power. He did not tell the people that the state debt was paid with money supplied by Democratic laws passed for that purpose.