Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1855-08-01
'Fsr Crrr PRlSrlNo FRAuD.-rhe Times & Ga.

rHE CTTY PRINTING FRAUD.-fhe Times q Ga
-,ne makes lame effort to puta favorable face
on its swindIe in the matter OF the City Printing
without, however, refuting our expose. The edi-
70, admits that the Council went TO work with the
ayowed purpose of promoting eeonomy in the ex-
pease Of the printing. reEerrsd the subject to a
committee, aud thathe was the person who draft
ed the ordnance providing for the immediate cleo
tiou Of pinter OF. no defnite terms, and excIu-
dag all bids. That tells the whole story, aud is
an sdmissioa OF all we claim.
When he says we refused to bid until after
the ordinance DIETER call it wharton's plan TO
rob the city, was adopted, he utters lalsehood,
,,od he knows it; he knows the different bids
wsr, submitted before the ordinance Ethe fraud)
vas adopted.
He goes into tgmarole of figures and twaddle
.bo0t squares from whlch he tEys to Prove that
the work could not have been done at she price
~. u,Oposed, because our previous charges were
co much higher. His statements are false, his tig-
u,es are (slae, and his deductions are likewise,
and we shall knock the whole fabrication into a
cooked hats by few simple facts.
Remember, we proposed to do the city's adyer-
tsing for 500 per annum: our calculation was ba-
ssL on our previous bills; and what sOsre our pre-
vous bills for the publication of the ordinances.
orders, reports of the Board of Health-Council
crcsedings aud all--and three Insertions of all
.rcrut the Council proceedingsl Here they are
iot two years:
Bill Of the InteITgsneer for City Printing
for one year from January l., 1853,
10 January |, 1854. 1919 As
do from January /, 1854, to Jan. l, '55, 2s7 4s
This was for three Insertions Of each ordinance,
&C., and now we ask. when we proposed to ad
yevtise each ordnance order, notice and report uf
the Board Of Health, Que TIM with these bills be-
fore us for two years in which Council had done
about all the printing it wished, were we not ma
king a safe propnSltion-weTe we not naming
pSice which would pay for all the advertising
which it would be requisite for Council to have
done!
The Times article is as full of les as dog is
full of leas III dog days. Here are some of them:
lie says We charged the one fourth of sI4O0 fSr
publishing one year. We did no such thing; we
wete one of Jiue, and not four papers which got
the printing, which would make $3.50 to each
Just about what our bill amounted to. He says
we charged Que fourth of Sl4O0 for the publica-
ton Of lOl squares of ordinances. We did no
such thing; our bill last year was for ordinances,
Orley fire company notices, reports of Board oil
HEALTH lacIudng the frequent reports during the
ChoIera epidemicl aud all other publications. He
says that the: election of printer is the universal
custom in other cities, without restrictions &c
Puce. Does he want the people here to believe
that he people of other cities such fools tc
elect printers aud let them charge what the,
please! In fact, his article. like class of boob:
spOssnOf by Burns, is Giles fra end to end"'
We again invite the attention of our City Fa-
theE aud our people. TO the Times bill of $780,,
4 ict three months printing. AT the top of thai
paper it is announced for some square, one inser-
Ion, IS cts. He says he has published l444
squares; that would be. at IS cents, s1Os,37 his
bill! is S2O0,77; but he CLAIMS that about $50 oil
that IS for job work; il SO, then there is still an
0Tetcharge of 42,4o-and this is doing work for
the city on the same terms as for ''tks most fuor-
RI eustOusr!' Does he insert the ordinances
pore than once ! If SO, by what authority II
fe publishes them more than once without author
BY why not publish them month, or year2
Work the thing as you will, and you will still
od it TO be swindllng game-a robbery of the
Ply treasury, and violation of his oath by men,
"a OF the Council, and every cent over $500 paid
lis year for the city's publications is so much
0ney stolen from the pockets Of the people.