The Nevada journal., 1853-08-12
The yirtuous Transcript.

plain the motives of the Transcript in its
remarkable zeal in endeavoring to shield
the administration of Bigler from censure
or even from examination, and to keep the
old order of extravaganza in operation two
years longer. We have luckily the pres
ent week the facts and figures from the
Treasury department, which fully bear out
the conclus ions we had drawn. The Union
of the 9Th, publishes in full copy from
the Warrant Register" showing the
amount paid to each individual for state
printing for the fiscal year ending June
3Oth, 1858, The copy is attested to by the
clerk, and was taken by sanction of Major
Roman. By this it appears that the cost
of state printing for the year is S21o,547,-
sc The printing Of the journals of the
last Legislature have yet to be added to
this amount, to the sum of $4,000. Thus
over one quarter of million have been ex-
pended among about eight or ten men for
state printing during the year, when DR..
Pierce, the comptroller, estimated the en-
tire cost of the printing would be S64,302.
We have looked over the items of the
attested document to see how deeply our
indigna ntly virtuous friends of the Trans
sript had got their hands into the treasury.
We find that its editors have been paid di-
rectly the past year the nice little sum of
S56,205,00. Besides this James B. Devoe
figures for about SIS 1000, who was and is
partner in the concern and is the heart
and soul of the transcripts business,
though the editors of that sublime sheet
may have deemed it policy to have let his
name stand for theirs in some of the swell
ing sums. Geo. Kerr, the present owner
of the Transcript is marked in the official
register as having received the enormous
sum of S99,178 90. We do not take into
the account here the sums paid to Wash
ington, one of its editors, under the name
of V. E. Geiger & Co. But to the editors,
publishers and owners of the Transcript,
in the last year, have been paid by the Bigler
administration $l6O,383 90.
Let any man read these statements,
which are verified by the broad seal of the
state, and then take the Transcript as a
safe guide in what will benefit the state.
How much JUNCTION there is in the ex-
hortations of this pure, patriotic sheet.
Stand by Bigler! Hurra for democracy
Does the Transcript take voters for fools,
that they will be hallooed on to build it
up collosal fortune to be paid for by
and by, by grinding taxation on those very
voters? But this ravenous sheet, not con-
tent with over $160,00000 in one year,
hoaxes and cajoles the Legislature to pass
and the governor to sign the STAMP act, y
that puts $4,000 more into its clutches
Under the spur of such stimulants this
virtuous press upholds the rotten admins
tration to the last act Of its corruptions,
urges and defends state prison, water lot,
notarial and other denominations, and
vociferously claims two years more of the
spoiIs. Is there any virtue in democracy,
any intelligence in the masses? Ifso must
not such bought subserviency be rebuked
such facile tools be laid aside-such cor
rupt witnesses be scorned-such cormo-
rants be choked from the open treasury.
Oh! the yeracious, modest Transcript, with
its horror of the proxies" of Mr.. Waldo
How it beg and scolds for another years
perquisites, another plum of 100000 90.
How it loves the goose that lays its golden
eggs How it rants for Honest John"