Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1898 — AN ITEM OF BIG ECONOMY. [ARTICLE]

AN ITEM OF BIG ECONOMY.

A comparison of what the attorney general’s office cost the state of Indiana under Democratic administrations with what was expended therefor under Republican rule, is not the least of the suggestive items of eoouomy that will be commeuded by the people iu this year’s campaign. While the Democratic party was trying to save itself from defeat four years ago for Its extravagance and bad direction of public affairs, the attorney general of that time, as did all who preceded him, was annually taking unto himself many tbonsands of dollars in fees. When the Republicans came into their own again by the will of the people, emphasized by a plurality very near the 00,000 limit, these fat fees were turned into the state treasury where they belonged. The* taxpayers can grasp the importance of thus taming the tide of fees from a public officer’s bank ncoouut to the state's money vanlt by noting this little memorandum. Auditor Daily reported that at the eud of the last fiscal year there had beeu disbursed by the attorney general’s office ouly $13,916.19. For the fiscal year of 1894 Auditor Henderson, when the state was in complete possession of the Democrats, reported that the attorney general had reoeived daring that year $37,607.79. That is, the state lost in one year, as an example of persistent Democratic extravagance, $38,691.67 that woold have been saved the state by Republican methods.