The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-09-30
IN PICKLE.

Suprsme Court. But lac il State Printer
to all intcnts and purposes. And, being
State Printer, Pittock is in a pickle. This
may be ALTERATION, yet it is fact.
As a matter of course, Abolition Off
GERS never do wrong, never commit any
thing like dereliction of duty, or male
feasance in office, and never dcfraud the
State. But ifa Democratic State Prin-
ter should do what Pittock's own party
eotemporaries charge him with having
done, all the yirtuous and therefore indig-
nant Abolitiohists in the State would
shrek and clamor and charge, and cry
out " How long arc the people to endure
such rascalitics 7" Shall not the guilty
transgressor be severely punished 7"
q Are the people forever to be swindled 7"
!" Will his party dare to screen him from
justice p Dare his party organs fail
to denouncc him Z" And then the fam
ing heads in the Abolition organs: "As-
founding Disclosure-The State Printer
a Swindler-Rascally Device to Defraud
the People-The Villainy of a Copper
head Official !" These and other similar
means would be taken to impress it on
the dear people that the State Printer lad
grossly sinncd, and that his whole party
were responsible for his bad conduct
officially. In this instance, however it is
Pittock, the Abolition State Printer, who
is in grief. and Of course his party is not
at all responsible for his malefcasance in
Office.
1t seems from the records of the SUI
|premc Court at its late session, from an
official report to it of Secretary May. and
from statements in the Mountaincer and
Statesman, that Pittoek has engaged in
n bit of speculation quite profitable in
cash, but not leavened with one particle
Of honesty, and utterly in disregard Of
his duty Ms State Printer, and his official
oath as well. About nine months ago the
Secretary Of States furnished to him the
copy from which to print the Laws of
Oregon. The work ought to have been
performed in four or five menths at most.
1t is not pcrformedyct. Thus the Judges.
the Bar, everybody in authority i'll the
State, who ought to be provided with
a copy Of the laws in order to clearly and
correctly perform their respective func-
tions, are left without this necessary guide.
But if Pittock was unable TO publish the
laws in time to furnish the Courts and
others, according to law, he did very
readily manage to print and issue in
pamphlet form, some eight hundred copies
for sale to everybody WHO wished to buy.
There was a serious difficulty in these
copies, however-they could not be rec
ognized as the true and genuine statutes,
because they were not officially issued by
the State Printer and officially acknowl-
edged by the proper State authority.
Thus, while perhaps exactly similar, in
every important feature, to the genuine
State copies to be issued, the Courts could
not recognize them rs such, or rest their
reading or Interpretation of the laws upon
them. Still, lawyers and even Judges
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bought the unofficial copy, in the absence
of the official one, aud this was not only
toll, but wheat, middlings, shorts, bran
and ell, to Pittock's mill. As the fellow
who stole the brushes ready made could
sell them cheaper than his rival who
stole the material but made the brushes
himself, SO could the State Printers friend
behind the curtain afford to sell the Laws
cheaper than any rival, because he was
supplied With the book ready made.
Pittock's innocent transactions were
not confined to this Law Book specala-
ton. He alleged as the reason for nottime-
Ily furnishingthe Statutes that he could not
procure paper upon which to print them.
It stated that an officer Of State furnish
ed him with paper, and that, instead of
appropriating it to the legitimate purpose,
he used it to print these vrEy unofficial,
speculation copies. Further, that he
entered into another equally yirtuous
transaction, by which he made out of the
lState, aud for Pittock the individual, the
difference between SIG and SIT GO per
Iream ON 1874 reams of paper, bought on
account of the State. He will be an
arrant Copperhead," and unfedged
|rebeI' who will essay to question the in
tegrity of the State Printer in these in
~nocent operations, as a matter of course (;
yet We fear that that immaculate official
will be severely condemned for his great
zeal in promoting the interests of an
abolition oficer-by mere accident, him.
self-and thus serving his State as he
has done. Pittock, State Printer, had
Ebetter beware, or he may be awarded
another alliterativc position, in Portland
l-Pittock, State p-s-n-r.
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