The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-04-01
The Litigant War.

The passage Of the thieving htigant
act BY the last Oregon Legislature is pro-
ducing its legitimate results. It was
passed by the Democratic majority for |
the special benefit of Democratic organs
it compelled the people of Oregon, re-
gardless of party prediction, to patronize
Democratic journals selected by Gov.
Grover as "litigant organs" at rates often
much greater than those required by
Journals equally if not better known and
responsible. Ye. it seems that one of
these same Democratic journals was not
satisfied with this distribution of spoils,
but must needs claim the lions share, to
the detriment of co laborers in the Dem
ocra,ie truck patch. The Salem Mercury,
litigant organ for Marion county, COM
plains that i. Patterson, of the Portland
Herald wants to corral not only all the State
Printing, but the printing for each of the
counties besides. ave do not arraign
Mr.. Patterson's Democracy" says the
Mercury, "nor the Democracy of the Her
aid, but all .his does not abscure our WIS.,
ion to the fact that Democrat can, oEce
: in great while, be hog, and attempi
to satiate his voracious NAV even at the
expense of his best friend 1t will be
remembered that all along the lNercurg
: has been defending the State Printer
: against the charges that we're being made
r by both parties of gross frauds and steal
: ings in the execution of the State Print
< ing; yet now, of its own accord, it ac
:, knowldges these charges were not onl,
/ true, but the half of the rascality had no
a been told. Following is the conclusion
y of the article, appropriately headed ''Ra
n pacious," in the Mercury:
The claims of the State Printer, under the liti
:. CANT law, were most preposterous and unfair III
II not only secured Multnomah, the best county II
Y the State, and with which he ought, under tn
circumstances, to have been satisfied, but h
D. pressed his claims for Washington Ga county tn
> Tilamook, Yamhil, Umatilla and Grant, and W
have heard that be made effort TO get Coos
Curry and Josephine also.
'e Now we will say in conclusion, that if Mr.. Pat
q terson must have all the law, by the most rigorou
construction in his favor, allows him, to-wit: th
n tribe of blank work, etc, required for the use o
the state departments, we snail nola MN 10 to
law in the other respect, to-wit s: that which re
&C qures him to have and to keep complete jo
>, Office the Capital. He shall cease to carry worl
away from the Capital and divide the profits witt
r Pagans. We are in earnest about this matter
We asked the State Printer early in the Winter
to let the Mercury job Office do such work as b
was prepared to do, for knew that tn
commission he had been allowing the Republica
e offices than entire charge for tik
teork. 1t would have paid us better to have don
Is the work for Patterson than for ourselves. Bu
st he could not allow the poor boon. Whcthe
he enyied the rising popularity of the Hercrn5
l. or had passion for furnishing Pagans with ia
work we do not know but this we do know tina
IL paper flourish without the incidental oil
" bing the State Departments Afford and that wher
- ever Mr.. p. complies with the law he is welcom
ii to all of it. lie may, this basis, at ono
= writing up here concerning the matter.