The new daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1872-1873, 1873-02-14
The 8ew 9ailp appeal.


IF any man wants the dear people
to put him il a place where he can
stand as the sure and convenient tar
get whereupon the gunpowder, nitro
glycerine, thunder and Paixhan guns
of Legislative spleen may be emptied
as by commonly assumed and assert
ed license, let him get elected to the
Office of State Printer. If any there
be who are hungering for the dis
tinction indicated. we herewith
pledge our ex-of6cial word of honor
that he will. when he gets it, very
certainly get q belly-full. In season
and out Of season; for cause and for
mere wantonness; because they must
curse somebody and because of the
popular Legislative superstition that
the State Printer is the head pirate
of State officials, doth the otherwise
sensible and fair-minded Legislator
seek frequent and unstinted occasions
to damn the State Printer and all his
heirs, Embellishments and assigns,
without benefit of communication, ap-
peal or clergy, to a solitary, compan-
ionless and specially invented dam
nation. And then, whenever any
Assemblyman or Senator is good
enough to stand up and say q good
word for the harried and be-.0wsled
poor cuss who holds that lamentable
and Inexperienced Office, the bal
ance of the House go off into the
lobby and bat their eyes at one an
other thereby slyly giving it to be
understood that he, the Printers de-
fender and apologist, is ''in'' with
that official and divides his stealings
with him: Not even the most char
table but entertains a lurking and
underlined notion that the State
Printer is q thief; that seems to be
thought past any controversy; and
it is only out of warm, self sacrific-
ing, clean-chawed charity that any
body defends him. And then as to
his delays in furnishing Reports,
Bills, etc., as ordered; it is a matter
of course that he does it purposely;
for, as the general Legislative mind
lis prone to believe, the Printer has
some secret and occult way of max
ing additional and extraordinary I'M
:godly confiscations of the substance
of the people by being slow and dill
:story in the performance of his du-
ties. Neophytes in legislation who
find it difficult to distinguish be-
tween q constitutional idiosyncracy
and . deodand in the shape of sixty
dollars stationery money, and who
don't know the difference between an
agate quad and three A font of
; skyline French Antique, find no
. difficulty, as they are hampered by
no sense of difidence. in making
voluble and oft-reiterated criticisms
upon the work and duties and appar-
emit purposes of the devoted pauper
who is, single-handed and alone,
striving to perform the difficult task
of printing vast mass of matter on
the double quick and on bare jaw
bone, and to accomplish that hope
less and discouraging impossibility,
pleasing the Legislature. A Report
which will make o volume of printed
matter as big as the New Testament
and of which thousand or two of
copies are orde red. is expected to be
forthcoming from tho hands of the
Printer before the oopyist's ink is
fairly dry; and if it SO happens that
q Department officer for whom the
State kindly provides handsomely
furnished apartment, an abundance
of fuel, unlimited stationery and
lights, and to whom it pays a snug
salary in coin is obliged to wait his
turn before the Report Of his doings
and propositions is issued from the
press, The. meantime, being offens-
lively pertinacious and importunate
in and about the lobby;) if this
alarming ooncatenation of adverse
circumstances happens to take place,
then comes another dreadful blizzard
at the target aforesaid, and somebody
Who knows about as much about the
internal economy of q printing Of
fice as q Piute pony knows about the
curative properties of cundurango
gets up and excites a momentary
buzz of admiration by making an
oracular and technical recommends