Arkansas democratic banner., 1851-09-30
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 We perceive from Inc Banner and the Gazette & DcIApcFat, that gate war of words is br.rr waged between [. A. Whiteiey and c. c Danley, the former Public PTinseg asatAe latter Aodltor nI Pubic Aer0anfS 6t eccounf Of Ss,mc ef tka r,,g, limnares ep0n settlesnrat of lhe pgintiae h,l o, ssatea v Mf. VI hseiey ioE his services as psn,ey io the State.
 As kAr ~ we are infozmuA.eg in any mannsr in. itfestAa, Ne hasC 10 feF.isg apaR tie subject ei this malee beawe<n iAese two aieh faacuonar,es aa te is4 6nal6s bat Il feaIiy seems io us. that a wAHsoS attack has teea made uppn lie character and reputation 0f Mf. Whiteley--an attack which facts do iSot warrant so far as the printing of sse Acts and Journals of the last session of the General Assembly is concerned We have m oRr posses son. the contract ensefed into by MF Mh;feSey or slg exeentjon of the Pnblic Ptsffue. and ws fnsst confess that VI have bewa handling type Ter twen sy-h five yeats 10 very ttte purpose. if we atv not capable of laegsHg of Inc manner aHa the entire iypsgTaPhy every particular of the sSeehtina of tkc work which we have examined aud of tke faitafnI compliance with the contract by Mr. Whiteicy. Asa practical prinser we know. and do assert, thai the work s better exeepsea aasfai
 more economical pflees thaa he same kind of woyk has ever been done iy any ere. for number os yeaFsi aad that we have no fear in givtng h as cGg optHaon, that no printer m the State can aioFd e do the same work in the same manner for the same prices. We repeat, that no aisshietested psini, , m the Slate, who knows the business Of pginliRe siieieniiy t0 constitute him competent judge, can he procured to do the work for the prices that | has been contracted Sde and done by Mir White.
 ley. There were soIae, admit. whu bisl Cor the, work at much higher psices, and who failed to get the contfs et, that now sas, oa account 0f disap- poinfment, that inc work IS not weIl done. ard that too much has been charged for its execution. As evidence that thiS S untrue. look as the manner in which the public printing has been Aefe4ot,Fe px eH he sxssfss charge for the same. How nicely the former oess and the present asseFtlsas of these disappointed
 individuals contrast with each other! IL sSoala be far better for some of them to fork over the thoa sands of dollars which they justly owe the State but sternly refuse t0 pay, than Co on in this fora against the present. State Printer. They had better act honest and correct themselves. before they undertake to teach others ha.sesty. Sosne ape of them once acted IS Treasurer Of the Stale. have they settled thtlf account with the Ssatef W, think they aFe yet owing tho State thousands of dollars of the pcopies money to force the payment Of which, suit has been instituted against the se. curites. and who will have to foot up the defaca. ton, If 1t s ever footed.
 Auditor Daniey, it seems, refuses to pay White. ley's bil on account ofsone error in the contract II seems to us that this IS not just The contact so Tar as Whlteley IS ennceTRed, is valid one and one heretofore approved by action of the LegiSla- ture, and we believe Mr. Daniey himself
 II tse OOieeis h seems to Us, on the part Of the Auditor, had been to deal out even handed justice to all alike, he would have paid the Public Printer according to contract leaving all errors and matters ofdfsPale to be settled by the proper trbuaaI This usurpsticn Of power not authorized by justice and equity, by the Auditor, ln holding on to money when he should pay 1t out, or which amounts to the sames refusing to audit the account and issue warrant for the same, will be duly appreciated by the people at the proper tinae and in the proper msnner, we have every reason to believe.
 Ii may be sad that we are not party inter ested, that this IS none of our business But u is our duty to see thzt pubic officers discharge their duties properly. or they fail 10 do it, to hold them up to the pubI,c gaze for such refusal. Whiteley IS as much of pabltr officer as Auditor Danley ls and f we could copeeive him remiss in his duty we would coHdeW hm as soon as any one cise.-- We have nothing to do with the quarrel between these two men. They may make Kilkenny cat ahar Of t for what we care; but We wish to see justice dealt out to all, and y all