Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1904 — Page 4

TlB Republican. OMelaqPsgsr •< Jaspsr Coast?. MBs la Republican building en the corner of and Weston Streets. ISSUED BYRBY TUESDAY AMD FRIDAY BY GEORGE E. MARSHALL RDITOB AMD PUBLISHER. ferais sf Sabssriptioa. On® Year.. 11.50 fiix’Months 75 Three Months .50 Metered the Office of the Librarian at as seoondolaeejaiatter. Friday, September 9, 1904.

Republican Ticket.

For President Eaeodore Roosevelt, For Vice Premden. Charles W. Fairbanks. For Governor J. Frank Hanly. For Lieutenant Governor Hugh T. Miller. For Secretary of State Daniel E. Storms. Auditor sf Stats David E ShorroX Its ma nr at 8 Uta Wat U H«U. Attorney General Charles W. Miller. 2.porter of Supreme C««rt George W. Self. fnporintendeatPaWio iMtrnauo® F, A. Cotton Chief of Bureau of Statistics Joseph H. Stubbs fudge Supreme Court, 2nd District Oeoar H. Montgomery. fudge SupremeCaurt, 3rd District John V. Hadley. Congressman E. D. Orumpaoker. State Senator R. 0. MoOain. Prosecuting Attorney Robert O. Graves. .For Joint Representative Jesse E. Wilson. County Recorder John W. Tilton. County Treasurer 8. R. Nichols. County Sheriff John O’Connor. County Surveyor Myrt B. Price. County Coroner W. J, Wright Commissioner Ist District John F. Petit.

The dest lion of their party by Democrats is one of the wonders of the campaign. Republicans should mot congratulate themselves that these men who are moved by principle are Doming to the Republican :Standard. Some are, but many are mot. They have simply out loose . from the Demooratio party as at present managed and the majority sre yet looking for a politioal home "When all ths facts of the trickery at St. Louis are known by Demo* ants, when they realize how the faithful Democracy of 1896 and 1900 was duped, how their confidence was betrayed, how Parker knew for hours before be sent his telegram that there was no gold plank in the platform and how he ■waited until his nomination was made before he announoed that he steed for the gold standard, taking the chance ths convention would not undo its Work, when Democrats realize the desperate game played ■by the Parker crowd, even'larger numbers will desert the old party.’* —Danville Republican,

Wood Saw is Ready.

"The undersigned are now ready to aaw wood with their steam saw, at the following prices: Where smatomers furnishes fuel for the smgine 50 cents per oord. Where are furnish the fuel, 75 cents per i4ord> Nevi 11 &, Thompson. ' Look over Warner Bros, line of Mbugflies, carriages and road wagons I twCove buying. they will save you WMMJ.

FACTS VS. FANCY

Some Light Thrown on Reorganizers’ State Platform. WHAT RECORDS OF STATE REVEAL Relative to the Comparative Records of Democratic and Republican Leadarchly in the Management of State Affaire—lnsincerity of Democratic Leadership in Its Charge of Wastefulness and Extravagance Against Last General Assembly. "The Republican administration of state affairs haa been extravagant and wasteful. Offices have been multiplied and salaries Increased, the last legislature alone having made many new offices, and Increased annual salaries of Statehouse officials $40,000." —Democratic State Platform.

It was Artemus Ward who remarked that it was better not to know so much than to know so much that ain’t so, and this remark seems specially applicable to the platform adopted by the second section of the reorganizers’ party in Indiana, Here is a direct statement to the effect that “many new offices’’ were created by the last legislature alone. There has been in circulation for some time a table prepared at the Instance of the Democratic state central committee purporting to show the “extravagance” of the last General Assembly. Now here is the full list of “new offices” created by the last General Assembly according to a table prepared by the same hands which wrote this platform, and published in the Democratic state organ and many Democratic local newspapers throughout the state: Additional assistant attorney general, annual salary, SI,BOO. Additional stenographer in the office of secretary of state, S6OO, to take the place of a clerkship at SSOO a year, abolished. Stenographer in office of state librarian, S6OO. Twenty-five hundred dollars a year in new salaries added to meet a volume of state business largely increased—lees than one-seventh of the amount which went annually into the private purse of the presiding officer of this Very state convention of reorganizers, and joint framer of this very platforjp. -under the operations of the Democratic fey’and *«alwrr ! tuw bf 1891— a law which HepublteßM'repealed In 1805 and replaced with a statute abolishing state fees as private perquisites and turning them into the state treasury Instead! As to liter-eased Salaries. Then follows the definite statement that the last legislature “Increased salaries of statehouse officials $40,000.” According to this same table of official Democratic origin, the salaries of just four state officials outside of the membership of the supreme and appellate courts, were increased, and small additions were made to the salaries of ■even sta .ehouse clerks. The salary of the governor, beginning with January, 1895, was increased $3,000 a year, which only sej-ves to give to the governor of the state a salary approximately equivalent to that received by the auditor of state, secretary of state, treasurer of state and attorney general, even under the present fee and salary law, and only one-third of the amount annually received by the presiding officer of this convention of reorganizers under a Democratic feet and salary law during his period of service as attorney general of Indiana from 1891 to 1895. It may be mentioned in this connection that it will be the same as that received by Thomas A. Hendricks as governor thirty years pgo. The sum total of increases in statehouse official and clerical salaries by the last General Assembly outside of those to tfae judiciary Is $6,770 a year—an Increase which is far from commensurate with the growtfi in volume of the state’s business, or of the tees turned into the state treasury from the several offices where increased clerical assistance has been provided. New York and Indiana Compared. The salaries of the members of the ■upreme and appellate courts were increased in the aggregate $20,500 a year—this in the belief that the vast Interests committed to the keeping of these great tribunals warranted such provision as would insure the state’s ability to command continually the highest order of legal talent. The salaries of supreme judges as readjusted are $7,500 a year; of appellate judges, $6,500 a year. The total annua, ex pence to the state in salaries for mem here of the supreme and appellate courts will be $77,000. Instituting a contrast with other states of Indiana’s high rank among commonwealths, we find that in New York the allowances for salaries and personal expenses of tbt two similar courts reach an agtr*€*t6 of $703,000. The allowances (or confidential clerks to members pc the supreme and appellate courts la New York roach an aggregate of $43,000, or more than 50 per cent of the entire amount allowed in Indiana for the salaries of the entire membership of both supreme and appellate courts. The present Democratic candidate for president, Judge Parker, was receiving a salary of $14,500 a year when he retired from the supreme bench of the state of New York to accept the Democratic nomination for president. Bo general was the feeling that Indiana should take the forward step implied by this action of the legislature that the proposition was not

made a matter of partisan contention. The bill carrying the Increase would have been defeated In the state senate if as large a proportion of the Democratic members had voted against it as there was opposing the increase from the Republican side of the chamber. And yet the Democratic state platform seeks to make an issue of G>is item. A single bill passed by the General Assembly of 1901, the amended oil inspection law, brings into the state treasury annually since it went into effect on Jan. 1, 1903, the amount necessary to meet this increase and $12,000 more. Was It Extravagant? Was it extravagant or wasteful to cut off from the office of the attorney general fees that amounted to $22,500 a year? Was it extravagant or wasteful to cut off from the auditor fees that amount to $31,000 a year? Was it wasteful or extravagant to cut off from the secretary of state fees that amounted to $15,000 a year? All this was done by the Republican fee and salary law of 1891. Under those “good old Democratic" days it was a fat thing to hold a state office. When the chairman of the Democratic convention that denounced the Republicans as extravagant and wasteful, went into office he wan a poor man. He served four years and went again into private life with a fortune of SIOO,OOO from his four years' service. The last Democratic auditor was enabled after four years of service to retire with a like amount. Under the Republican law a four years’ term in either office will net the holder but $30,000, or $70,000 less than under the Democratic law. Falls to the Ground. The Indictment against the Republican party for “extravagance and wastefulness” in Increasing salaries falls to the ground. Let us look further and see if we can find any ground for it. In 1895 when the Republicans took charge of the affairs df the state the debt was $7,520,000, and now it is less than two million dollars. In 1895 the annual Interest charge was $243,725. In 1904 it is $64,000, a reduction of $209,725. Was It extravagance, was it wastefulness to thus pay off the debt of the state and reduce the annual interest charge? In 1891, when the Democrats were in power, they re eelved from the general government $720,000. They held it in the state treasury for two years, and then used $300,000 to pay a part of the state debt; they kept the remaining $220,000 another year before they used it for the same purpose, thus holding idle $720,000 for two years, and $220,000 three years, while the state debt was drawing interest all that time. Had they promptly Applied that large sum to the payment of the debt more than $60,000 would have been saved to the treasury. Which Do You Prefer?

Which kind of financial management do you prefer? In one year the Republicans paid off more than a million dollars of the state debt, but the Democrats call that an extravagant and wasteful uss of the public money. It will be admitted that In all the years of Democratic rule they were never guilty of a like offense. They never wasted money by paying off the debt. Rather than waste money in that way they would Increase the debt. Their method was to keep the money In the treasury and let the people pay Interest on the debt. In. Democratic view it IS an extravagant and wasteful use of money to pay off the public debt and thereby save the people thousands of dollars annually In the way of interest, but in the same Democratic view it is not extravagant or wasteful to give the attorney general SIOO,OOO in four years, the auditor of state an equal affiount, and the secretary of state $60,000. The Republicans plead guilty to holding Just the opposite view. They would rather pay off the debt and save the interest charge, qven If they have to cut off the emoluments to the state officers. perhaps it is in the management of the state benevolent and correctional institutions that the Democrats expect to find proof of their charge of extravagance and wastefulness. Under Republican control the average per capita cost of maintaining all the institutions has been reduced S2O annually, thus effecting a saving of nearly $200,000 a year. To the ordinary mind that will not look like extravagance or wastefulness, but to the acute mind of the Democratic platform builder it bears the stamp of extreme wastefulness.

DON’TS FOR INDIANA REPUBLICANS.

Don’t r-ove out of your ward or tewn’hip after Sept. 8.. If you do you cannot vote on Novembers. Don’t move out of your precinct after October 8. If you do you will lose your vote.

Either the faction of the Democratic party now Jn control still adheres to the doctrine of a tariff for revenue, or it does not. It it does, let it say so explieity, so that the voter will know exactly what he is doing when he considers uiis phase of the matter. If this faction does not favor a tariff for revenue, then it is equally its duty to say this explicitly. Neither a man nor a party, is worth attention unless his views or its views are known. To ■ay that they favor a reduction of the tariff still leaves the question whether this reduction is to bo made upon a tariff-for-revenue basis or upon a protaction basis. The position of the Republican party is clear. The reorganizers have no reasonable claim to support until they make themselves equally clear.

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NOTICE. of H aring of Ditch Petition. In the matter rs the petition of Cornelius Everset al notice is hereby given that a petition haa been ffled with the Auditor of Jasper County, State of Indiana, and viewers have been appointed who hav* viewed arid reported said view, Which is on file in my office. The hearing of said petition upon its merits will be on Kriday the 4ib Day of October" 1904 the Same b .ing the second day of their October term, 1904 The prayer of said petition is that a diteh be constructed on the following route to wit: Beginning 15 feet north ot the quarter section corner on the south line of section three (31 township thirty one (81) north range seven (f) west, and running thenoe north 4324 feet thence northeasterly 8176feet,thence northwesterly 18900 feet to its outlet near the west line of thsoutheast quarter of the northeast quarter of section twenty one (21) township thirty two (32) north range seven (7) west. The proposed work will affect the lands of the following persons: William B. Austin. Pe melia M. Brockway, Job Brook, William W. Cheever, Thomas F Cheever, Caleb Cheever, Margaret JCooper. Adtji Bowman, Cornelius Evers, Charles E Earl, David E Fairchild. Luther H. Frame. Nancy J Fairchild, Effie M » Fairchild. Edwin Fairchild. Elmer Fairchild, Bessie C Fairchild. Nelson Fairchild. Adam Griffin, Emmett L. Hollingsworth, Gertie Koppleman, Charles Wilhelmina Lokotzkn, Gabriel Musch, John Makeever, Catherine Mosier, August Mayburn. ■Uza Man ,’John & Eliza - ann. Fetor Vanu'ngs. Charles T, Otis, t redrick R. Otis. Indiana, Illinois, and 1 >wa, Railroad Susatinsh Roodbn’z n. John M. Bhortrii"e, Frank Schuster. Charles Thompson. Aggie Ton. '■orman Warner. Mary E. Troxell, “smuel Wilson, Civil Township of Keener. Jasper County Indiana, and Jrsper County Iddiana account Gravel Road Repair. JAMES N. LEATHERMAN. Sept. S-16 Auditor J sper C u-.ity.

NOTICE. of Bearing of Ditch Petition. In the matter of the petition of Louis F. Lehmann et al notice is hereby given that a petition has been filed with the Auditor of Jasper County, State of Indiana, and viewers have been appointed who have viewed and reported said view, which is op file in my office. The hea-ir g of said petitfba upon Its merits will be on Tuesday the 4th Day of October, 1904 the same being the 2nd day of their October Term, 1904. . , , The prayer of said petition is that a ditch be constructed on the following route to-wit: Beginning 25 feet east of the center es section 13 township 29, north range 5 west and running thence southeasterly 600 feet, thence south 4840 feet, thence east 2400 feet to the county line, thence east 1204 feet to its outlet in the Mosier Ditch at a point 10S feel south and 510 feet west of the northeast corner of the west half of the southwest quarter of section 19 Township twenty nine (29) north range four (4) west in Pulaski County. Indiana. The proposed work will affect the lands of the following persons: Edith E. Ashley, Lecn E, Ashley, Elwood greist, Louis F. Lehmann. Alexander Merica, arry Rishling. George M. Kime, Hanging Grove township. Jasper County, Indiana. JAMES N LEATHERMAN, Auditor Jasper County.

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