Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1920 — GOODRICH ADMITS HIGHWAY WASTE [ARTICLE]

GOODRICH ADMITS HIGHWAY WASTE

Indianapolis, Ind. —In the campaign speeches Governor Goodrich is making in behalf of Warren T. McCray' he is defending the extravagance of the state highway commission on the pretext that it couldn’t be helped btf cause the organization was not perfected. By thus admitting the charge of waste the governor has placed his official O. K. on the expenditure of more than three quarters of a million dollars which the commission squandered by letting road contracts at $6,000 a mile in excess of the price paid by Marion county for better and wider pikCs. Mr. McCray has also indorsed the state highway program and has pledged himself to continue it in effect as it is now constituted. Dearborn and White counties face a 65 per cent. • increase in *taxatloq next year over what they paid under the old law. See your county treasurer. He has a message from Goodrich for you equally as* interesting., Mr. McCray is advocating a budget system for the state. Carlton B. McCulloch, the Democratic candidate, first urged that in his primary campaign last spring. ■ • Possibly McCray’s defense of the Goodrich tax law is prompted by the fact that he is enabled to list fancy cattle at beef- prices for taxation purposes.