The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-24
OUR TRUE COLORS.

known as the Telegraph, under the caption oil
,stSailing under False Colors, INDUCES in the
following brilliant TRADE, which we reproduce
in full, with its own italicizings;-
SIT has for some time past been lntimated to us
that THE EVENING TELEGRAPH, Of PhladeiphIla was was
In the market for sale to any party that felt disposed
to become its purchasers. Wewere Induced 10 ne.
leve these intmations from its evident and fre9uent
Failing in obtaining purchase money from
either Governor Geary or the Repu9ncan
% iooked IN another direction, with apparently
better success. We have no cause to complain II
selves to the devil himself, If they disposed,
and can profit anything by the operation That is
plain of their sailing under false colors For months
we have ceased to regard the Phlladephla
TELEGRAPH q Republican journal, notW1thstand-
ing its Republican professions. The pirates Semmes
and Moffit were just as honest In their profess
si0ns when they hosted the Stars and Stripes for
the purpose OF deception, is the paper in question
when it sails under the Republican flag. The object
Is precisely the same IN Dotn cases. IN hne Plrates @
as is the Philadelphia TELEGRAPH at the
present time: 1t is doing more for the De;
nag, than any other Democratic paper;
and we do not hesitate to expose its nimsy
warning voice against its false pretenses; and only
regret that we have neglected that duty so long
te name Of Asa Packer SroGs. at their ano @sshesa sSrs
i should be. We also advise every Republican paper
in the State to warn its readers when they see quo
tations in Democratic journals from the Philadelphia
EVENING TELEGRAPH, and represented as being from
radicator Republican Sheet that it barefaced and
gross deception; and that the Philadelphia TELE-
GRAPH is decidedly and emphdttcaly an the interest
Of Asa Packer and the Democratic party"
Before we devote our attention to the above
article, we desire to throw some light on the
source from which it emanates. The Harris
burg Telegraph is published by one George
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by stating what every person familiar with the
iniquities of the State capital will fully corro-
borate, @athe is one Of tile most notorious
and anscrup,tl0,ts .jO6bers that has eOer set
tied doaon an that place for tile purpose Of
2resiag upon ehe public spoils. During the
administration of Mr.. Lincoln he held the po-
sition of Postmaster of Harrisburg, and was
again appointed to that position by General
Grant, against the earnest protest of many of
the best men in the central part of the State.
Thus, in the first place, he makes fair living
from the General Government, and we must
expect to find him entirely subservient to the
politicians by whose influence he secured and
continues to hold his Office.
But the compensation which he receives
from the Federal Government is mere drop
in the bucket compared with the amount
which he EFFORTS and extracts from the State
Treasury. For number of years past he has
published, at the expense of the State, what is
known as 'The Legislative Record, and which
purports to be full photographic report of
the debates of the two houses of the State
Legislature. To show what great service he
does the State in the publication of this work,
we will cite one or two samples of the manner
in which he manipulates the labors of his re-
porters, in the interest of the unscrupulous
plunderers who have brought our Legislature
into such disrepute On the Goth of last
January, when the bill affecting the Office of
the Receiver of Taxes in this city was under
discussion, in the House of Representatives,
Elisha w. Davis delivered himself of some re-
marks, of which the following is the report as
published in all the daily papers of this city
on the following day
eff Mr.. Melloy went into Office he would have the
appointment OF collectors to serve for one year, and
these would be ready to issue bogus tax receipts
enough to do great damage to the Republican party
at the next election So far as the newspapers were
editor ,cas stauch Democrat and there lcas no use
in quoting other guerrilla sheets, some Of thieh neUer
e az @ s Oe At ss Least wS
North American had expressed no dissatisfaction"
And now for the manner in which Berg
ner, in his Legislative Record" comforts
this passage in Davis speech
81 care not how he refers to the papers. He NIr
McGinnis) may believe what he pleases of what he
sees in the Sunday Dispatch No man can truthfully
accuse the Republican party OF what has been
brought to the door OF the Democratic party 1 do
not that paper procaims to be neutral 1t is not
aRepubican paper, and the gentleman knows 1t.
You will not find any opposition to this bill in any OF
the Republican papers OF Philadelphia. refer you
NOrfh Anleri all Gun
pers as that"
It will be seen that Davis assertion that
the editor of the Sunday Dispatch is "a
staunch Democrat" and his stigmatizine
certain other papers of this city, including
The EVENING TELEGRAPH, as ''guerilla sheets -"
qOere quietly erpunged by Bergner from, the
official report Of the debate, thus pernaSttS,,o
DaViS to refer to the official record as a Droof
that he'had been aOifuuy and maliciousyy mis-
quoted and 0tsrepresented By He press of this
city.
Another sample of Bergner's official phono-
graphic reporting will suffice to show the OBJ
legations under which he daily placed the
most obnoxious members of the Leeislature
In the latter part of last May, Senator Oster-
hout read, as part of speech in the upper
house, an affidavit by the President of the
New York and Pennsylvania Canal and Rail
road Company, in which it was charged that
q member of the lower house from this CITY
was attempting to secure certain Legislation
which would be of pecuniary benefit to him
self and of corresponding pecuniarY loss tC
the company. In Bergner's official pIonO
q. = IL