The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-22
SATURDAY, JANUARY %, 1870.
ROBIN O'BOBBIN BERGNER.

has demonstrated his capacity to absorb more
public plunder than any other man in the
State, and there is danger that his insatiate
maw will not be as we'll filed this winter as
usual. We have deemed it our duty, from
time TO time, to make an approximate estimate
of Bergner's greed, but really we fear the task
is beyond our capacity. If he were to swal-
low up the whole Commonwealth he would
still, like his great prototype, complain of an
aching void in his abdominal regions. Most
men would be content with the spoils of
tho post-office at the State capital
but our Pennsylvania Robin o OBobbin merely
whets his appetite with the tit-bit he receives
from the National Government. 1t is impos-
sible for any single public treasury to satisfy
his Unsuitable longings, so he turns from the
strong-box of the nation to the strong-box of
the State, as greedily as the calf that sucked
two cows. We published some months ago a
list of his receipts from the State Treasury
during the fiscal year ending November 80,
1868, as it is given in the Auditor Generals
report. The sum total was $53, ,O9O19, much
of which was for practically worthless service.
His receipts for last year, as pub
lished in the Auditor G enerals report of 1869,
show material reduction, amounting in the
aggregate to but little more than 500, 900,
and we should be inclined to sympathize
deeply with the unfortunate man if we did
not notice that $12, 900 of this sum is merely
a payment on account for publishing the Duly
Legislative Record, and after this bill is made
up and settled in full, the taxpayers will be
fortunate if any balance is left in the Trea-
nuft IN 10 rath tha.
to our Treasury -devouring Robin O'Bobbin,
His particular grievance at this moment is the
indisposition of portion of the Legislature
to permit him to exact the usual amount Of
plunder from the State this year, on the pre-
tense that he publishes legislative record.
In tho fear that Bergner cannot be got rid of
in any other way, number of members
favor the idea of abolishing the Record alto
gether, and we do not wonder at this dispos.
ton in view of the following exposure made
by Harrisburg correspondent of the Post
this morning. He says:-
Mr.. Bergner, who has owned the Job for several
years past has grown rich on it, and Is OF course
exceeding 10th to have it discontinued. The folly
OF continuing the publication Is apparent very
face, and members have condemned 1t on its own
exhibit The State has paid fifteen dollars per page
for printing it, and of it was to the advantage
OF tho printer to extend it over as many pages as
possible. This was done. The Record for 1863 was
made to drag its weary length over more than 1900
pages This was accomplished by eongation and ida
total disregard for typographical decency and good
taste: Take any number of the Record and you will
bnd hundreds OF such examples as the fOOwing:-
The nIst section was read and
Tho second section was read and
Agreed to.
The third section was read and
The fourth section was read and
Amended.
And again you will find this rascally expanson:-
The bill was read and
Agreed to.
The title was read and
Agreed to.
On fanscribing the BILL it was
Agreed to.
The first and sections were read aud
Agreed to.
The title was read and
Agreed to-
On transcribng the bill, it was
ANY one will be able to furnish the reason for
such eloDgaton. The specimens given above show
the fraud that had been annually practised on the
stale Treasury, and the members OF the present
session do not propose to perpetuate 1t any longer.
Robin O'Bobbin ought to have been salts
fled with charging the taxpayers fifty per
cent. more than fair price for this work.
but, rs he insisted on having his linked
sweetness long drawn out, even the legisla-
tors are beginning to think that too much of
Soou tuinB can DO stuHeu uoWn DerSnerS
throat. Consequently that wonderful patriot
and immaculate champion Of Republicsnism
is sounding the tocsin of alarm. He
sees treason in every attempt to check
his greed, and denounces this journal as
"a disgrace and an injury to the party be-
cause it will not by silence countenance his
schemes of fraud and extortion. Robin
OBobbins denunciations are, under the cir
cumstances, compliments of which we
feel proud and we hope the time may never
come when our course will meet the approval
of this incarnation of greed and systematic
champion of corruption.