Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1849-11-29
SplurgifcatiOn !

Mr. Martin M. Ray, the editor Of a wing news
paper entitled the HACK Eye published at Shelbyvie,
has all once discovered that there is great corrup
ton connected with what is called the State Printing
in this State. He thinks the public interest and the
morals of printers. imperaiively demand that there
should be an immediate change in the law. so as to
allow. under present circumstances. chance for
ririuous 'Ohig to profit by it. lie would like to
change the official tenure of Governor no doubt, Tor
the same reason! Wonder if we could not hire
wing pettifogger, very cheapl If Dir. K. is to be
believed, the law 1t stands creates an enor-
nous monopoly, 10 secure the benefits Of which, men
are willing to purchase the friendship Of the legsla-
ture by the exhibition of nnumerabe barrels of oys
ers and illimitabe baskets of champaign That the
lucky winner of the prize. will always be ready and
willing to gormaDdze and guzzle nordinately, with
all classes Of loafrrs whom the carrion spos may
congregate at indianapolis.
He erpifogates in the most grandiloqucut phra-
seology, to the extent Of mortal column, and as
if he affected By diarrboe Of dielionary,-ar
us if he were bunfasgaiing before justice of The
peace for fee of FIVE dollars in maiden case. All
that he says, however. only proves his complete igno
rance of the whole subject. He is affected with that
affection, impels him to speak and TO scratch in
voluntarily and at random, just as demagogues apt
TO d. upon all occasions.
The secret of all this verbiage is simply, demo-
cratic majority. If il were whg instead of demo-
cratic. we should not hear word from such quar-
ter,-not lisp. Here is the rub and herein is made
manifest the wonderful product of the Hawk Eyes
incubation. 1t is a mares nest, and nothing
We would, if we had time notice every specfca-
tion Of MIR. Ray, from he oysters and champaign.
down to the dirty fysheets. which the devils consider
as their peculiar perq. We think could easily
convince him. that he has suffered his very prolific
Imagination to outrun his dscretion-that is, if his
judgment is well balanced that of common men.
But we can only say now, that the law it stands
was made by the trhgs while yet in power, and made
with view to cut down to the lowest point the profits
Of democrats who held the the time. This
law, II stands in the Revised Statutes received the
appreciation of the late Gov. Bigger, and of Geo.
H. Dunn, then whg Treasurer of State. The prices
fixed after taking the testimony Of printers un-
der oath, before committee of the Legislature and
several of those men being wings and enyious or in
imical towards the then State Printers exposed every
means Of making fat, or in other words, profitable
work. By these means the prices reduced about
30 per cent. below what they had before been: yet
der the highest rates, so far as We know, no man
eUer got rich under the contract On the contrary,
several who held il became bankrupt, and others
are now poor. The capital necessary TO invest 10 do
this work, would pay much better in almost ony other
busaess not subject to the envous railing of dema-
gogues. And far we IRE concerned, if we had
not purchased the necessary material almost useless
for other work, we should hardly make such an in.
vestnent for the sake Of single term of three years
We never worked harder than when We had the
printing, and we never made less profit the
amount Of work. We have made little money prin-
ciPally by adrerisins. and suppose it to be hon.
estly our own.