Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1914 — CANDIDATES’ EXPENSES. [ARTICLE]

CANDIDATES’ EXPENSES.

Pemocrate Spent Nothing to Secure Nomination On the County Ticket. According to the expense accounts filed in the county clerk’s office of expenses of candidates in securing nominations on the county ticket, none of the democratic candidates spent any money whatever, while most of the republican candidates 1 were to some expense in securing the 1 nominations or in trying to secure same. B. D. McColly, the republican candidate for sheriff, heads the list with expenditures of $25.50? G. L. Thornton, candidate for county assessor; comes second with expenditures of $22.25. John T. Biggs, defeated candidate for county treasurer, spent $11.75. C. M. Sands, defeated candidate for prosecuting attorney, spent $11.40. J. P. Hammond, candidate for county auditor, spent $9.00. J. H. Perkins, candidate for county clerk, and H. W. Marble, candidate for county commissioner, each! spent $6. I Charles A. Welch, candidate for county commissioner, spent $5.78. Charles V. May, candidate for county treasurer, spent $4. C. J. Hobbs, candidate for county surveyor, spent $3.00. None of the progressives, prohibitionists or democrats, were to any expense in securing their nominations.