The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-12-16

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uas eide sditess Of the xeokak CAT
c4. 10 reesatlet,er fesns Iowa City, #.
ter briefly noticing the exosbiaans prices
paid to the present Sssts Printer. thus prop
ssly spesks Of ~ ssbjess Of cAangiag the
pesssat law relssivs 70 esase psisting:
The whole Law ia sseard % public print.
iAe reenires immediate and thorough rcvis
lon b psrsons competent to perform the
task, and the prices shoald be 6xed so - &c
give only areasonsble profit on the work
done. The prices should not in any case
exceed that for which the work could be
obtained in proper style on private or pub
lie contract. And there will be no difficult
y 10 hasiag the printing done At such
rates.
The intersst Of the State demand re.
uenchment in = thorough aud prac,ica
form, aud lift is not effected BY the present
Legislature. the tax payers will know the
reason why their interests, have been sacri
iced ~ their Representatives.
We demand retrenchmen, in this de art
ment Of public expenditure on behalf and il
the name of the Republican party. The
Republicans OF the State have bsitled hare
and long TO secure the triumph OF their prin
ciples and their party. and they protest mos'
vehemently against being broken down in
the State BY the odium OF such an extrava'
CANT and wasteiul expenditure for public
printing. We protest, TOO, on behalf OF the
Republican press, the Republican editors Of
the State. through whose arduous aud Hire
quilted labors the Republican party is main
~ indsbt for success, against the victory
won through our JOINT efforts By pamperine
any single Que OF their number With suet
an enormous grab from the pubic crib
|, is unfair to require the ensire corps Of
Republican Electors OF the State to labor
for two entire years to come 10 retrieve the
damage that will be done 10 the party BY
psyiag one Of their number exorbitant pri.
ces out Of the Stale Treasury for the pub
lie printing. Many Of Us stand ready 10 d,
the printing st reasonable prices; let tbs
rates, therefore, be reduced, and thus light
EN- the burdens vi taxstien on the people
save the tsir tame Of the Repub lican part,
and establish an ensisble re putation for ou
6rst Republican Legislature.
We trust the Republicans Of the Legs.
ialure. in eiecung their State Printer, vii
be governed BY no fsvorilism to individuals
but look alone to the interests of tie State
and the Republican party. Presuning thai
80 lar as The interests OF the State are
concerned. no dis,inction need lie made
among those whose names may be present
ed a. candidates for State Printer, as any
one o, thea will d. full justice to the work
entrusted to his care. in the event Of hi:
elechon--ihe Republicans should view The
question a. one 10 which the interests o
their party are intimately connected. They
should give the State Printing to no es,ab
ishment which has not BY long and irduen
tial laburs in ,he Republican cause, proven
itself entitled to any reciProcating "aid ant
com fort" which msy lie in This printing
and hich may thus assist to still fur
Their extending ar ieflunnce, every step Q
which must advance The interests of III,
Republican party. Thus deciding upon ,he
besto~sl Of the State Printing. no matte
upon whom the choice may fall, we are surs
ell true Republicans, especially those con
neeted with the Republican press, who arr
most interested, will cheerfully acauiesce
looking alone to the good OF their rarty.--
No Republican should enter the caucns il
which this is to be decided, pledged to one
applicant or another, but open to reason as
to whom it is his duty to support as Re
publican solely intent ufon advancing tbs
interests Of bis party. Thus he will be sbls
to decide inteligently and riga.