The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-08-13
COi,IT s. G..
Tuesday Morning. August l3, 1872.
For President Of tie United Sfntes.
HHOKACE GREELEY. OF New York.
For Vice President
Is. GRATZ BROWN, OF nIysxour,.
Sinking the Issue.

yeSleTuhy OIu not attempt even 10 6uS-
tain the question it had raised with re-
gard to the public printing. Instead.
We were presented with q string Of dirty,
abusive epithets against this journal
TO such things. we reply outside of our
paper, as we have done in the present
instance, and we presume we have had
the end Of it. The ring organ has re-
psatedly charged that we received the
same patronage which it does from the
State. We have shown where it has
presented ono bill for two-aud-hal
months advertising. amounting to
SI3, 100. which alone is Eve times more
than the eutire account OF the PHOENIX
for the lust fifteen months This is a
sufficient answer on that point. AS to
what part of the plunder Of the ring the
Union receives for it's obsequious sup
port. we have never made any specific
charge. From the nature OF the case, it
is Impossible to ascertain just how much
money Parker has contributed to the
Union This We know, however, that
the Cnion has, in season aud out of
season. showed itself the willing tool
and advocate Of the ring in all its ras-
cully schemes to rob the people of South
| Carolina Il is scarcely possible that
even the Union would engage in such
dirty, disreputable work, without Il con-
sideration, and heavy one, at that.
The inference here is irresistible.
There is no need Of apeci6c facts. How,
or when, or under what pretext, tho
money passed to the Union, no one
knows, nor will perhaps ever know. To
pny exorbitant rates for work done for
the State, would be the cheapest and
easiest method for the ring to render its
tool a 1uid pro quo. Thirteen thousand
one hundred dollars is NO trihing pey for
two months-and-a-half. work in the way
Of advertising. If all the Unions bills
are filled up proportionally, it ia very
easy to see where its share Of the spoils
has come in.
It is unfortunate for the Union that it
referred to the publication Of the delin-
quent tax list, which escaped our mind
at the time of writing our previous arti-
ole. We did publish the list. just as the
Union did, and while our bill amounted
to $3.50, the Union charged 5000 for the
very identical work.
What the Union says about the CITY
printing is simply untrue. The PnGN1x
received not one single dollar more,
under its contract to do the city print.
ing, than the contract called for. What
additional money was received was for
other and extra work, in nowise con-
nected with the contract-such as, for
instance, the publishing of the ordi.
nances, in book-form, which work the
PHOENIX received from Mr.. Tradewell.
| who compiled the ordinances. and not
from the City Council, bat which was
paid for by that body, upon certificates
from the business manager of the Re-
publican Printing Company with which
the editor of the Union was formerly
connected) and another disinterested
practical printer, that the charge for the
work was reasonable. Be it remembered,
too, that q Republican Council was
forced to call for bids for the city print
ing, owing to exorbitant charges By the
Union. The PHOENIX was awarded the
contract, being the lowest bidder.
1t is idle to talk to tho community
about the late Radical Council showing
any fayors to the PHGNIx, when every
one knows that we we're bitterly antago
nistic, and that the PHOENIX was chiefly
instrumental in unearthing the stupcn.
dous fraud contemplated in the building
Of the new City Hall, and in thus saving
to the citizens some $4,000. In this
undertaking, the Union lent no assist
ance, as it has lent none in any othe,
honest and patriotic work looking tc
the trne interests Of the State or city.
Dependent upon the thieving State off
cials for it's daily bread, it knows no
higher duty than eeryilelv to ohev fha;,