New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-05-08
THE STATE PAPER.

Tie AlJanp Erening Journal in announcing it,
selection as State Paper, observes that
1t was urged while this subject was pending that the
law created office worth fifteen or twenty thousand
dollars wear for the benefit Of the Senior Editor of this
Journal This charged emphaiicay in the Senate
and in certain newspapers that seems proper to say
let That the heeh Or twenty thousand a dollar Tsr
the urofs whatever they may be- shared equally by
ak ptopretors of TBe 6HrR0i-tbree young men having
been associated with Its former owner
"Ofihe abstract proprety Of law changing the tenure
Of this Office there be no question. The objections TO
had reterenee solely % ne ,nd'rldsql rhom ras sup
the occasion of neither surprise complaint That ind
ydual has occupied for years position OF difficult and deli
cate responsibility. IL II only remarkable, in view of all
the Circumstance that he should have been fortunate
enough 70 retain through many trials and for long
period much Of the regard OF his party For all this he
i profoundly grateful and he only say in return for
this unsolicited renewal of confidence that whatever Of in
fueuce coners shall be held in trust for the Wig party
The Necessity for state Paper, a medium for
communicating legal Information conceded. That the
state Paper reaching. il II supposed 20 reach, all
parts Of tie state should be the exponent OF the State Ad
niAsiraiOn Las also been conceded and acted upon
collision some years since, IN the Democratic party, &C.
casOIed trs; modification II the State Paper Law,
sang subsequently, il the Inconvenience and uncertainty
OF having fro journals claiming to be the State Paper
II was ths condition OF things that suggested the present
law The Legislature passed and the Governor approved
H. a. We understand Tor the purpose Of relieving the
whole question and both political parties from future en-
bsrsssInent-
longer without COMPENSATION. This Law fixes equitable
for the service required though least fifty per
less than Is paid for ordinary advertising in The NV
lORE TRIBUSE, TINES, &c.
AS The TRIBUNE is known TO have ay0wed very
decided ObjectOns" to the State Printer Act of last
winter the statement above which we have printed in
italics mpes to observe that far from oppOs-
ton TO the act in question having reference solely to
1.-The individual whom il Supposed would be ben
"efted," il would have been quite as decided and
at least as strongly expressed had any other person
been the prospective recipient of the patronage crea.
ted BY this act Most certainly if any paper was en-
titled to receive from New-York Wing Legislature
or State officers several thousands per annum for doing
what Others ready to do for nothing it should be
the leading and most influential Wing journal at the
State capital We approve most heartily of the seec.
tion of State paper made by the proper functiona.
ries we do not and cannot approve the act which de-
yoved that duty those functionaries Our reasons
for opposing the whole system of giving Government
Printing or Advertising to favorites of the ruling DOW
er, whether at Washington Albany or elsewhere, have
been often set forth and need not here be restated
They will doubtless be urged hereafter With reference