Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-08-05
THE DOVER PRINTING FRA UDS

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W. s.a'oN 'no o'her oay' taa1 Tue print
" 'ne Legislative Journals required w
' pau ,'a'a'e IA" 10 DC awaioeo " 'ne low
s' o'uuoi' hau oeen s'tcs cut 10 'ne Demo-
o.a"o p''Ae' oisaa' NJ Do'e.' ai'no'Hn
o'ne' p'in'ers haa oiiereu 10 90 II iof much
'eos 'a'es. inis Is perfectly 'rue inueeu
appears '''a' NOT on'y 'enk'ns A.k'hrou'
"su 'eo'se onaaoe' ou' aisoo. oo"n'""'
y, 'no o''Se"s' o'a AZ 'ese rates 'nan 'ne
''o'"oo'eu''' .ae 'ortner paper s'a''ng 'he
eAcess !" we 'a''cr' az ABOUT twenty per
cunt
~ % s.ateu INA. inns Is 'he 'au'' " '"e
CLERKS oi 'he LEGISLATURE, ana NOT Oh '""'
oouy' VI any oody e'se' III ruin II . not
'ne'r iau'', they procured thcir posl'i"us'
only through Inc rover chque' anu 'hey
reiu lhcn IN oneuience 10 whatever coh''"i
'he cirque cnose 10 exercise. Wieh 'h'9
were aoout 10 award the pr'ntlng' tor winch
'hcy hau invited ana received proposals,
they opened the communications addressed
them py the various printers ana the
oners presented were freely made pupiic,
all around Dover. IL was explicitly stated
what the pids were, ana that whiie the
DetdWdFeots was Sl.3s per page,
possibly 1t may have been one or Two
cents more or less,) that oil jenkins ~
Atkinson was $l.lo; and George Chance
stiii less Inc Clerks declared their purpose
10 obey Inc law, and said the WORK must
certainty come to wilmington, at any rate
that as the offer made by the Dover parties
was highest oil ALL twas Impossible Tor them
70 receive 1t, &C., &C. For ourselves, we
knew that this was Impossible, that the
clerks would be obliged TO give 1t to the
party organ. They are entirely dependent
ior poitlcal assistance upon the fins VINO
control the state ana they dare not 90 "her-
wise than give TINS printing, which ny the
law was nomlnally within their control, to
'he men VINO mad given them the'r oihclai
places lhey are, u Is uue' morally re-
sponsiDle, out the greedy ring VINO stand
behind them, pulling these, as they do the
other wires throughout the State, are the
guilty rartes who really have made this adj
ditional fitch from the public purse. 1t is
, -
-esshess, ana corruptloh' winch marx their
rule in Delaware. They are unwilling that
a single cent Of the peoples money should
go into other hands, even of Democrats. G.
p, johnson is pretty fair Democrat, we
should say, and he offered to do the printing
more cheaply than the Dover parties Mr..
Chance is Democratic workingman, strug-
Cling to earn an honest livelihood, and lie
offered to do it more cheaply; but no such
idea was entertained by the corrupt cumLi-
nation who rule at Dover. Higher prices
! must be paid, and paid into their own peck.
cts. Not even other Democrats should hay,
, fair competition,
In response to our recent article on this
subject. the Delavarean enters into the
/, most unqualified abuse of lis, withou,
= attempting to controyer facts stated. II
!, saws
= "The Commercial complains that /, did
/, not get the printing of the journals Of til,
TWO Houses Oh the Last Legislature.
ANA adus lhat lhe COMMERCIAL
-meahly, IKE pups WIN thel
,ha ,,so IIo,,s ., -, ;y !, ,,a INC
y their Two journals. and now comnlain he
IS cause they did not do So"
o 1t further intimates that the agent VIII,
IL presented jenkins ~ Atkinson's proposal
: should have been kicked @ and that tn