, 1872-12-12


eroy to BE Ee-e1ectea-TAe State
Printing-EVhati it Costs, and loyv 1t
1s to Eze Reformed.
Correspondence Of The Chicago Tribune.
JUNCTION CRY, Kan, Dec. {, 1872
Tho Indian summer OF political weather is
upon us. Everybody is mild and serene. The
atmosphere is hazy, and TIC all sec as through !.
glass darkly. Not very long since, many we're
able to clearly perceive. that AIr. Vas totally
unfit for Senatorial lonors and AIr. WAS not
to bo thought of as 3 resident of Washington.
But the canvass ia over, the dominant party is
stronger than ever, and the neod Of reform
is not so koen1y felt. Tho parties afore-
mentioned are Of IS incalculable benefit to the
Nation and State" to quote the words Of q.
Washington Ickspittlo. A great statesman in
the southern portion Of the State exhausts three
columns Of small plea in giving the Senatorial
question a quietus and winds up with the sug-
gesti7e remark that he has no especial reason to
urge why Senator Pomeroy should not be re-
elected. And go it goes. A short time ago, q
great show Of reform was made. Our present
bald-headed Senator was to be summariy ousted.
Ho WAS undoubtedly O. disgrace to the State.
Now the election is over, and a Republican ma-
jority Of 10000 md upwards has rcassured
the fearful ones. So Senator Pomeroy is
at once transformed into paragon of honesty.
Some Ut the newspapers are openly faVoring
him !; they have already been. on the scales, and
have received their value. Others are silent;
they are in the process Of weighing. The ''Jel-
ly-Fieh Of the Neosho ~ said last winter that the
Bcd-Blanket never had favored, and never
should favor, the return to the Senate Of sena-
tor Pomeroy. In . few months, the Senator
made tour Of the State for Grant ~, and con-
tributed tho usual $50 or $160 to the
support Of Republican principles through
the Blanket and now the spineless being says
he supports the Senator because he believes
him to be an honest man. And the cheap men
all over the State are doing tho same. Senator
Pomeroy will be reelected. Then there will bo
o tremendous howl by the newspapers and
men all over the State who helped to elect him.
The annual Investigation Committee will be ap-
usual, number of perjurles will be committed,
and everything will be lovely. The bird Of
golden-egg fame will tako it's rations at a dizzy
elevation, and six years hence will again
cided Judgments by freely disgorging. In
view OF this, dub Senator Pomeroy the gooHe
that lays the golden eggs for needy, but honest,
Kansas newspaper men and legislators.
believe it is J fact that Kansas never has
beon, and, until things change, never can be,
represented in Congress BY q capable, honest
man. A knaye or d fool is the alternative.
The Office of State Printer is now attracting
eome attention. -Four years ago, an amendment
to the State Constitution was voted upon, Great
ing the Office Of State Printer, who WAS to be
paid for doing the State Printing
at q certain, fixed price. I'm
menBe sums we're to be saved to tho people
by this. Well, it would Reem that not much
more than o million OF two could be saved in
this way HAen the State printing under the old
regime (contract) cost annually but 512 900 to
sl5, 900. suppose that the amount Of work
required by the Stnte may have increased 25 per
cent since the now law went into operation yet,
in the four years, the State has paid over S100-
600 for printing. We have not entirely lost our
hope Of saving the million or two annually, but
the realization is 80 far in the future that taxes
actually seem to grow heavier. So here il
another opportunity for reform, and it is going
to be improved. For, in Kansas, wherever there
is ghost of chance that man may be re-
quired to sacrifice his love Of personal gain to
the public good for the trihe of 525, 600 or SO g
year, there are bushels Of Spartans ready to
forsako everything else. Like tho voice Of the
gentle eayote when bacon is near, but out Of
reach, the melodio1s howl OF the patriot ia
heard from tho Missouri River to the Great
American Desert. A Superintendent Of State
Printing is now clamorcd for. He is to have
tho printing in charge merely, letting it out to
the lowest bidder. OF course he viii be an in
corruptible man, and no bribing contractors
need apply with propositions Of per cent diri-
sions. T, A.