The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1845-03-21
Breaking the COntrrct with the State
Printer.

Printer.
So far as the House is concerned, the deed
Of darkness, long premeditated, was consum-
mated on yesterday, by strict party vote,
against the State Printer. 1t resolved itself
into mere malignant and partizen attack to
niure us, and as Mr.. Summers acknowledge
ed in about so many words, for party re-
venge! Mr.. Summers was one of the cele-
brated Associate Judges who went from Erie
county after that county was created, and
took his seat on the bench of Huron county.
We pronounced it at the time aSmpation
and the Supreme Court pronounced it the
same, and he crawled off of his official seat!
What had this to do with the State Printer.
we should like to know? Yet Mr.. Summers
give this as his only reason for returning, as
he said, " the chalice to our own lips" Pret-
ty Representative this, of a free people
under oath to protect the constitution! But
this of course is the secret Of all their party
tricks,-it is rcpenge, because we dared print
an independent paper, and tear off the
sleeps covering of federalism occasionally.
AS for Coombs, we nave again and again
shown him up as so infomous liar, that it
would be folly to allude TO him. He cannot
tell the truth when the plain truth is before
him. Why did he drop over $500 from the
Printers bill of 1898? Can you tell, hon
est Iago? And why did he put the bill of
$l7, 1882 to our first year, when twas the
close of J. B. GARDENERS, and Dolby's, one
of your whig editors? Can this contempt
BILE, lying scoundrel tell why he did this?--
Can his friends do it for him? And why did
he not say that the bill of 1888 was made
under whig Legislature, and that of 1889
included the expenses ofthe Common School
Reports, and School Journal, and Geologi-
cal Survey, all authorized by the whig Legisla-
ture of 1878. These three extra jobs con-
sumed more printing than the whole ordinary
printing done for 1921, '22, '23, and "a, to
say nothing of the immense amount of print
ing done fen the public works and institutions
about that time, which was of an extra char
acter, much of it reports of surveys ordered
by the whig Legislature Of 1878. The
next year, lS40-including the session Of
80, 40, under democratic furoritiSm TO the
State Printer, the bills fell to $l6,505 SOL!
less than the last year of James B. Gardiner
and Dolba's time! Did this black-hearted
and soulless liar tell any of these things to
the ignorant dupes who believe him? No,
not he! And what had the printing Of blanks
to do with the State Printer? Who prints
them now?
Why did he not look into the bills of the
Journal office since the 1st OF last December.
His other charges are of the same infamous
character, and he knows it; and hence this
sneaking mode of doing business!
But why multiply words with such men?-
Men regardless of an oath, or any thing else,
are past reasoning with. We have gone 10
great expense to fulfbeur contracts with the
State. We have neither spared time, money
nor midnight oil to accommodate the Lcgis-
lature, without reference 10 party or persons
Put the Wing members under oath and lei
them testify to this. Hundreds of dollars
have we spent by paying extra prices to get
work done at unusual hours, to accommodate
wings, and this is the return! Well, let
them go on; we are as ready for life war
as they are, and we shall see who comes out
best III the end Ohio Statesman.