Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1906 — THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL FLUTTERS. [ARTICLE]

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL FLUTTERS.

Attorney General Miller is devoting a large part of his speeches to a feeble defense of his management of his office. It has been charged that Governor Hanly employed special assistants for the attorney-general In the face of the fact that his office is filled with salaried assistants and deputies whose duty it is to attend to the state’s law business. Mr. Miller tries to make it appear that this charge is not true. But it is true, and the records in the state house show that it is true. Among the lawyers who have been hired by the governor and paid out of the public treasury are ex-Attomey-General W. A. Ketcham, J. W. Noel and the firm of Smith, Duncan & Hornbrook, all of Indianapolis. Mr. Noel has been paid various amounts at different times, and the other firms have been paid so far S6OO each. Besides, the governor during the last summer kindly made an allowance to Mr. Miller of $78.85 out of his contingent fund and paid a stenographer wholly unconnected with the attorneygeneral’s office $109.52 for taking down one of Mr. Miller’s court speeches. The question Is, therefore, whether Governor Hanly doubted the competency of Attorney-General Miller and his salaried assistants or whether the governor has been squandering the people's money just for the pleasure it gives him. The two can fight this out between them but the people will hold both of them responsible.