Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-05-18
JUDGE BAIT
WILL SUBMIT
ECONOMY IDEA
Terre Haute Candidate for
State Senator Has Demo
cratic Platform Pledge.

The Democratic State convention, her
May S1-June /, will be asked to go o.
record by pledging the candidates,
elected, to reduce taxes by cutting OF
needless expenses in the form OF useles
boards, bureaus and commissions" an
ALSO to divorce public expenditures from
political expediency." II the plans o
Judge Charles S. Bait. Democratic nomi
nee for State Senator from Terre Haute
are carried out.
Judge Bait for years has waged war
upon high taxes and the State highwa
commission.
He will submit the following plank o.
taxation to the Democratic State conven
ton, he says:
The power to tax Is the power to
destroy, and taxation has been car
ried to such an extent in Indiana
that the farm and home owners are
rapidly approaching destruction by
taxation.
with the advent Of the so-called
Goodrich tax law, the taxes In Indi-
ana we're rapidly doubled, and under
the present administration are al
most treble what they were before
the enactment of this obnoxious law.
1t was claimed that the law was
for The purpose of raising valu-
atoms" and "equalizing taxation"
and that the rates would be re-
duced correspondence, but the ex-
perience Of property owners In In
diana has been that the increase in
valuation was followed by q reduc-
ton Of rates for one year, and there
after the rates were raised as high,
or higher, than they were before, so
that all of the property owners In
Indiana are paying two and one
ntsnh
as they did before the enactment OF
the so -calIed Goodrich tax law. Taxes
must come down. government must
be made simpler and cheaper, and
we pledge the voters of Indiana, II
given the power, to reduce taxes by
cutting Off needless expenses In the
form Of useless boards, bureaus and
commissions, and also to divorce pub
lie expenditures from political expe-
diency.
We view with alarm the action Of
the present State officials, boards and
bureaus, In trading tax money for
political power; and we especially
condemn the action of present State
officials in using the State highway
commission and the conservation bu-
reau to buy and bride county and
district chairmen; and we pledge the
voters Of Indiana that If the State
highway commission and conserya-
vorced from political traffic, they
shall be abolished; as 1t is not the
part OF taxpayers to furnish money
to buy and bride political chairmen.
to give some particular coterie Of
politicians the power Of controlling
the Republican party In the State OF
Indiana.
Our State house Is clogged with
useless boards, bureaus and commits
sions. which perform no service or
benefit to the State; and many OF them
are a detriment to the States deyel-
opment and well being, yet they are
continued and their number constant
ly increased, at enormous expense TO
the taxpayers. Officers have been
multiplied. employees added, and sal
aries increa sed, throughout the State
departments, without regard for any
necessity for such addition or IN
crease; the only object being to at
tach faithful henchmen to the State
pay roll.
We demand that all useless boards,
bureaus and commissions be at once
abolished; officers and employees be
reduced to number sufficient to
take care Of the States legitimate
business, and that the salaries shall
only be in proportion to the services
they perform.