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The DliTerence In One Departmeut. Tliat these mattere of increased salaries and clerical forcé amounts to a largo suiii in the aggregate appears from the fact that in the six months f rom January to Jury, 1S92, Auditor General Stone paicfout for clerks $19.822.(59, while for the same six months in 1897 Auditor General Dix paid out stri.o07.51: This is a differenee agninst the Pingree aduiinistration of $23,984.82 for eix months in only OXE DEPARTMENT AX LANSING. .This sum of uearly $26,000, dnnvn out of the treasury by an inerease of elerks and their salaries in the departnveut of the auditor general alone would constitute of itself a very powerful aid to the Pingree machine, to sa'y nothing of the other departments, which helped in the same direetion by the same nefarioug means. PInsrree Is Himself Kesponsible lor, 'l'his Shiiiiiffiil Record. Subordínate offlcers are not alone tp Mame for this extravaganee. Governor Pingree himself has set them a reeklesa example. The expenses of the executive office under Winans, for the year ending June 30, 1892, were .$202.70, while for the year ending June :0, 1897, under Pingree, they were ?5,009.08. But this includes six ïr.onthe of Pingree and six of Rich. To show Pingree's extravagauce it need only be stated that of this sum Rich spent $571.97 and Pingfee $4.437.11. (Report of Board of State Auditors, 1S97, pp. 2 to 11). This is at the rate of nearly $10,000 per year, or about FORTY TIMES THE COST OF GOVERXOR WINANS' ADMIXISTRATION. In no department has there been a larger proportionate increase in expenditure under Pingree than in the rooms of the governor himself. The example he has set has been coutagions, and the enor'nous increase in the aggregate anuual expense of the state governmeut- A MILLI0N AND A HALF OF DOLLARS- ought to arouse a tax-ridden ])eople to a realization of the enormity of the burden thrown upon them by the recklessness and ruinous extravaganee of the worst machine that ever cursed a state.