Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-08-17


ticuIar friends to the quick. for it has. been as
past ten days. The people can zee Thar the ami
mails have been stirred up with a sharp stick.
hence the growing Of the big beasts and the
chAttering ofthe monkeys After a thorough in
vestigstion of the matter. the discussions of il
occupying some ten or fifteen columns of that
print. The court organ charges that during our
term Of Office as public printer, we '.pocketed
$1,000 as stealings, not as profit on work"
suppose the court organ has made out its case,
Is our wrong doing ajustiheation of the EDITORS
malfeasences. Of the corruptons of the party
in power. of its useless extravagances and Of the
robbery of hundreds Of millions Of dollars from
the public treasury by Republican Office holders
and fasoritesf II We s'pocketed 5000 as steal
iugs. IL was during atsne Of peace not shentbe
nation was engaged in a terrible struggle for its
existence. anu out of ITS very life blood.
The insestigation ofehe State printing ustier,
10 Shieh the court orgaa allodes. was ezparte. and
the editor knoss Toe facts were not fairly devel-
oped. The printing to which he alludes was done
under the Law Of 1913, and we followed the SAM
rules and customs that had prevailed during the
administration of avery printer. whether Wing.
Democrat or Republican, who held the office under
that law.
1t is a custom IN every State where the public
printing is done as II is in Indiana, for the printer
tie have what are called quasi quires" as a per
quisite Even Mr.. CAxEsoS. one of the wit
nesses alluded to bythe court organ. who did the
press work as sub contractor. took the "quasi
quires" as a perquisite. And if the question had
been asked the printers who we're examined by
the Legislative committee, all would have testi-
fed that such is the universal custom all over
the country In regard to the press work. Under
the Law of I843 the printer was paid for eight
page forms; under the present law he is paid for
sixteen page forms Therefore we got no more
compensation than We were entitled to
before the Law was changed The Jour
nal, when Mr- DEGREES was printer, got
the same pay that We aid-hence. accord
ing TO SrLeRoyE's logic. the Journal 'spocketed
thousands of doIlars as stealings. not as profits
on work"
Then. ssto The stretching matter. Mr.. B. r.
SULeRovE was printer for two years. and all the
State work done by him was precisely in the
same form and style as the same kind Of work
that was done while We did the public printing.
Nos what will be thought of a man who charges
US with having swindIed the State bs stretch
ing matter to As many pages as possible when
be did precisely what he charges US with doing?
Is it not a dirty bird that fouls his own nest?
Compare any Of the State officers reports printed
BY US under the law of 1859 with those printed
By Mr.. SULGRovE, and the stretching" will be
found just the same. and both done under the
same law.
And IN regard to the quasi quires." As Mr..
SuLGRovE followed our example in stretching"
be undoubtedly adopted all other customs in pub
&c printing We challenge him to state under
oath that be or his employers did not use or take
for his or their use the "quasi quires" OF the
State paper used or purchased by him for the
State work while he was printer.
So. to sum up the printing matter, which has
occupied so many columns Of the Journal for the
past ten days. it appears that if we did any
stretching while we were public printer,
the very ~virtuOus and pure minded
Mr. SULGROvE "pocketed'' the same kind Of
''stealings." With all the pay he received. "steal-
ings" and all. or that any printer has got. who
az the same time edited the State organ of his
purity, not one received a cent more compensa-
ton than be should bare done for his services, and
so will every man say who has a knowledge of
the Onerous and unpleasant duties of the editor
CT the State organ of a political party
One word as to the Military Di-
r~ectory. We do not object to the
amount Of pay that any officer receives who
is engaged in the public service. Their pay is
regulated by law. and they get just what they are
entitled to. Personally, We care not whether
Col. HoLbowAY gets 81. 500 or s 5000 compen
sation. We have always advocated liberal pay to
public officers so that there will be 10 necessity
or inducement for stealing" The point We
mike, aud We not only have the right to do so,
but it is the duty Of the journalist to
make It, is the extravaganza of the psrty in
power in the conduct Of public affairs. If there
vas ever a time when rigid economy should be
practiced. it is now, and instead of slddling the
Government with enormous expenses not de-
maBded by the exigencies of the country. patriot
ism requires the looping of Of every needless
expenditure. and that the Government should be
furnished by the citizens with all its necessities
as cheapIy as possible. =
Mr.. b. r. SULoRoyE got good pay" when he
was public printer, and we are not so covetous as
70 envy him good luck. or "stealiugs." -