Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1908 — SOME JOBS FOR DEMOCRATS. [ARTICLE]

SOME JOBS FOR DEMOCRATS.

Mach Patronage at Disposal of the Indiana Executive. Very few persons have an idea how > much patronage the governor has at his disposal. He has the appointment of: A private secretary at $2,500 a year. ■ , An executive clerk at $1,500. A stenographer at SI,OOO. An executive accountant at $2,500. A chief engineer of the state house at $2,000. An adjutant general at $2,250. A quartermaster general at sl,200. A brigadier general at $2,250. A factory inspector at $2,000, and several deputies. An oil inspector at $2,500 with 35 deputies at salaries ranging from SSOO to $2,000 a year. The four trustees at S3OO a year and expenses for the Central, the Northern, the Eastern and the Southern hospitals for the insane, also for the epileptic village at Newcastle and the insane hospital at Madison, the deaf and dumb institute, the girls’ school, the women’s prison, the institution for the blind, the state peniteniary, the Indiana reformatory, the boys’ reform school, the soldiers’ homes at Knightstown and Lafayette and the school for feeble minded at Fort Wayne. A state entomologist at $1,500. Four members of the Btate board of forestry at S3OO a year and expenses. A commissioner of fisheries and game at $1,200. Five ynembers of the state board of optometry at $5 a day and expenses while in session. Six members of the state board of medical registration and examination at S3OO a year and expenses. Five members of the state board of pharmacy at $5 a day and expenses while in session. ‘ A state veterinarian at SIOO a month and expenses. Two state labor commissioners at $2,000 a year and deputies. Three members of the state tax board at $3,000 a year. Three members of the state railread commission at $4,000 a year. Secretary of the railroad commission at $1,500. Three members of the state board of pardons at S3OO a year and expenses. Three members of the tuberculosis commission at $25 a month and expenses. And members of other commissions and boards too numerous to mention, most of whom serve without pay or draw nominal salaries. In several of the offices mentioned there are deputies who are appointed by their immediate chiefs, but it has been the custom in the past for governors to make suggestions regarding some of these appointments, which sugestions were treated with eminent respect by the chief.