Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1908 — HANLY "NOT A $5,000 MAN.” [ARTICLE]

HANLY "NOT A $5,000 MAN.”

The difference between the cost of a highly moral and suspiciously virtuous governor like J. Frank Hanly and a plain, everyday man and Democrat like Claude Matthews merits the thoughtful consideration of taxpayers. Not' only Matthews, but Gray, Hovey, Porter, Hendricks and others were content with a $5,000 salary and other moderate appropriations for the governor’s office. But not so Hanly. He wants it understood that he is a highpriced »man. In a speech at Crawfordsville on October sth he said: “I told you when - 1 was a candidate that if the salary was to be kept at $5,000 that I did not want the office. I told you that 1 was not a $5,000 man. I have tried to make good and I can truthfully say that I have save<[ the state hundreds of thousands of dollars.” The governor does not give the figures showing how or where he has “saved the state hundreds -of thousands of dollars”—and he can not do so—but the figures showing the cost of the governor’s office under him and under Matthews are at hand. The figures given below are the appropriations for the governor’s office during 'the terms of Hanly and Matthews. I For the Hanly appropriations see Acts 1905, p. 502, and Acts 1907, p. 671. For' the Matthews appropriations see Acts 1893, p. 361, and 1895, p, 304. And here is the result: ' Cost under Hanly (4 years).. .$227,900 Cost under Matthews (4 yrs.). 49,280 / ’ I incressed Cost Under Hanly. .$178,620 Governor Hanly, of course, contends that all of this immense sum was •pent properly. But why did he need so much more than his Democratic predecessor? In the 1893-4 so-called Democratic “panic” there were seventeen bank failures. In the 1907-8 panic in Roosevelt’s administration, forty-three banks stopped payment and hundreds more arbitrarily limited the amounts that depositors could draw.