The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-05
-FOr furnishing Senate and HOUSE
with stationery and printing the


1t must be borne in mind, while contemplating
this vast sum, that you have claimed and been
allowed the monopoly OF furnishing all the de-
partments, while in the hands of Republicans,
with all the stationery used therein since 1861,
which may be safely aggregated at, for ten
years. the sum of $50 000 which, added to $685.
800, makes the princely sum of $20S, 500 you
have drawn from the State Treasury since 1861,
saving nothing about tons upon tons OF your
worthless Legislative Record which you sold to
the paper makers. and pocketed the proceeds,
after you had received pay from the State at the
rate Of fifteen dollars page.
In addition to this Deacon Bergner you have
been Postmaster of Harrisburg for six years,
place that a crippled soldier and an honest man
should have enjoyed, at an aggregate salary of
S1S,300. While Postmaster you had q share in
majority of the contracts given during the Re-
bellion to favored class of Republicans of Har-
risburg, from which it is popularly asserted and
believed you made $150,O0 You have had q
monopoly of all the advertising done for ten
years past by the United States Government at
Harrisburg, which practical printers assure me
was worth to you $4,000. You have been doing
the printing and advertising for Dauphin county
for fifteen years, for which you received $4,000
profit. This shows, in round figures, that you
have received from the National State, and
Dauphin county treasures, in ten years, the
sum of 1896, SO6.
Nor is this all. Yop have had profit on all
the coal furnished to the State of Pennsylvania
for use in the Capitol during the same ten
years. You undoubtedly made money In fur
nishing the Legislature with postage-stamps (of
which shall speak in detail( while you were
| Postmaster-so that, aggregating all the profits,
| you have reaped from all the public treasures
into which you could plunge your arm, it is safe
| to put down your total of clear gains, indepen-
| dent of your Legislative jobs in ten years, at
$275, 600 And you are not done or satisfied
| even now, because you still have a
monopoly of the patronage OF the clerks
| of both branches of the Legislature, and all
the departments of the State Government, are
| Postmaster, and do all the advertising at Har-
risburg for the United States Government, SO
that you to-day, independent Of your publicly
plundered fortunes, enjoy an income of cleal
profit from official patronage alone of not less
than $4,000 annually You allow no other Re
publican to claim any share in q Republican
victory. Not satisfied with your gains as have
given them, you actually started a kind of book
bank and shaving shop, to carry on the bust
ness of which during last year-the first of it;
existence-State Treasurer Mackey allowed you
to use, and you are still using, $25, 900 of the
peoples money, which you loan them (their owl
| money! at usurious interest.
What can the masses of the Republican party
think of the picture? gain my knowledge o.
the amounts of money you drew from the STATE
from the reports of the Auditor-General. Oh
one occasion, after you had been paid an &C
count to which you had sworn, it was discovered
you had fraudulently drawnm more than you wer
entitled to, and were compelled to return to th'
State the sum of which you sought to cheat it
and 1t was no easy job to compel yol
to disgorge. My information as to you
other receipts of public money, l believe, il
correct and reliable. You may have been il
secret schemes of plunder outside of your Law
selling, with which am not acquainted Yol
certainly are engaged as constant borer in tn
lobbies of the Legislature, where you pass you
time during the session of that body, instead O
remaining in the Harrisburg Post Office attend
ing to duties which you thus neglect, and TO
which you receive an annual salary of severO
thousand dollars The Postmaster General ough
certainly to know that the Post Office at Harris
burg is to all intents and purposes
conducted without the presence of it
| legally appointed Postmaster; one whom nine
tenths of the decent and respectable Republi
cans of this city repudiate, and who, if they ha
the power, would hurl you from position yo
disgrace. In conclusion, Deacon Bergner, lc
me whisper in your ear, and suggest that befor
you go hence, you sell your ill-gotten lands an
| newly-constructed blocks, and have the proceed
ready 10 deposit in the ample pockets of you
shroud, and in strong iron safe in your grave
whereWith to tempt st. Peter, as you hav
often tempted members of the Legislature, an
| be prepared to cheat the Devil, as this is mani
festly the best use you are likely ever to max
| Of it.
| AS ! intend to be as radical on thieves /
peace as was on rebels in war, shall continu
| this subject.
am, Deacon, as ever. faithfully yours.
MORROW b. Lowry.