Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1902 — An Independent Paper’s Tribute to State Institutional Management. [ARTICLE]

An Independent Paper’s Tribute to State Institutional Management.

in view of the platform declaration of the Indiana reorganized Democracy that the state's penal and benevolent institutions have been ’prostituted'to partisan ends ' by the present state administration, the following paragraph from the independent Indianapolis News of Sept. 10th is of interest: • "The opening of the new hospital for the sick insane at the Central Hospital for the Insane last night Ja an event It justifies the appropriation by the legislature that made it possible. and it is another illustration of the breadth and efficiency of Dr. Edenbarter's management.. Some time ago this able superintendent established a pathological laboratory that put this institution in the front rank of similar Institutions. With the opening of the hospital to which the sick can be removed from the regular wards, another Important step forward is taken. We have made great progress in our state in the care of our public Institutions. We have abandoned forever, we believe; the idea of making political spoils of these Institutions, and are beginning to awaken to the need of making them models of their kind.”