The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-08-20
A Greedy Governor.

The last Knoxville Wing republishes
the Pauper Press Law and prefuces it. by
specifying every kind Of advertising that
can possibly come under its regula-
tions. Attention is then called "to the
fact that the Knoxville Wing is an official
journal for the publication of such adver-
tisements, and that it is the most COME
nieat and ,cideIy circulated official paper
in East Tennessee"
The first section of the law provides as
follows:
That it shall be the duty of the Gov
ernOr, upon the passage of this act, to de-
signate such newspapers in each and every
Congressional District in the State, as in
his Judgment the public interest may re-
quire, in which all legal advertisements
required by law to be made in newspa-
per shall be published" &c.
The Governor, in accordance with this
provision, designated, among others, his
own paper, the Maryville Republican and
the Athens Republican, and these Sap
pointments" were duly confirmed by the
State Senate. After acknowledging, Of
fcially, that the "public interest" requires
the publication of certain legal notices in
the papers of McMinn and Blount coun-
tics, as proprietor of the Whighe tries to
swindle these papers out of the reward
of their loyalty, and to make all interests,
public and private, subservient to his own.
The Governor might, with equal propri-
ETY. and far more honesty, issue procla-
nation declaring the Knoxville Wing the
official journal for the publication of all
legal notices in the State.
He offers no proof that the circulation
of the Wing is greater than that of the
Maryvile Republican. We have no idea
that it is in Blount county, the section
most interested in such advertisements as
should properly appear in the paper of
that county. 1t seems to us, then, that
the effort to draw this class of advertising
for the whole of East Tennessee to his own
columns is both officially and socially dis
honest.
There lived, a few years ago, in Virgin
ia, very wealthy but miserably penu-
rlous and avaricious man named Taylor.
He was fond of a certain kind of display,
however, and made great boast of the
amount of money he furnished each men,
Der of his family, per month, to defray
their contingent expenses" But they
were never known to spend any money of
their own, and after awhile it leaked out
that the old man invariably won it all
back playing euchre.
This seems to us a case in point. 1t is
proclaimed to the world that for their un-
swervlng loyalty, as members of the same
political family, the Governor has award
ed to certain papers an amount of official
patronage, sufficient at least to keep them
from starvation. But it would be so
much better to have it all in one pile for
his own paper; and SO it is slyly announced
that neither public nor private interests
require that the legal advertising of East
q Tennessee should be done elsewhere than
in the Knoxville Wing.
This law is q miserable abortion and
swindle to make the best of it. 1t has de-
feated, in its operation, every end for
which certain transactions are required to
be made public. The legal advertising
OF this county goes to papers published
in McMinn and Blount. We have never
heard of but one Of each of these papers
circulating in Monroe county; and this
circulation is confined to the FoRERUNNER
office and its purlieus. In consequence of
..ts;A- ==hsp the aGss=t Cd .Innroe county