American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-07-26
The County Printing.

inc VOuUty VVunAIUy.
Nearly all our country exchanges
have something to say in reference
to the disposition n ade by the Board
of Supervisors Of the legal printing
in their respective counties, under
the unjust and infamous {, legal pub
LEGATION law of the last more black
and infamous Legislature, approved
by that most infamous, lmbecile and
corrupt Governor, ridgeley C. powers.
the 90 bully boy with the glass eye
that now disgraces the seat once
filed by a McNutt, a Melville, and
a Humphreys. Heavens! Look
on this picture and on that! Hype
riOn to q :"
In counties where there are Radi-
cal papers, of course the dirty thing
gets the legal printing 'just dry so,'
without any cOntest,-question of
circulation. or anything else. That
was the purpose of the law-or,
rather, the law had three purposes,
LIST, to support the Radical papers
already in existence; 2, to establish
others, and, 3, to make concerts Of
Conservative papers, or close their
mouths to The i'vamies Of Radicdlism.
We shall watch with a keen inter
est to see how far these several pur-
poses succeed.
In Holmes county. a fellow by the
name of Jordan made his appearance
In Lexington with little half sheet,
printed at the Pilot Office in Jack
son, and gave HOskins, of the old
Adrcrtiser, a hot contest for the APP
pointment- They both had lawyers,
and the case occupied two days be-
fore the Radical Board of Supervis.
OTIS! whereas, a decent Board would
have made " Jordan hard road to
travel" for that bogus publisher in
half minute. He did not pretend
to have type, nor a press, nor a sub
scriber! and yet it took the Board
two days to decide whether they
wOuld give the publication of the
legal INTERCHANGEABLE most i'm
portant of all advertlsements-O to
the old established ADVERTISER,
with large circulation! This is a
fair specimen of the "beauties of
lsadicalism.n
In YalObusha county there was a
spirited contest between the Water
valley Aissississippi Central and
Courier. Here the question turned
(as it should everywhere under the
ncfarious law, while it is law
upon the comparative circulation of
the two papers seithin Ike county
Brown of the Central submitted his
subscription book, showing that he
had a circulation within the county
of nineteen quires. Merlin of the
Courier would E0t, or did not, show
his book, but said he "was willing
to swear he had a circulation of nine
teen quIres in the county; and upon
his bare statement the legal adver-
Using was awarded to him. Here,
again, was a manifest injustice. prov
ing that it is utterly impossible for
a Radical Board of Supervisors to
do right. The proclivity to rascality
is so strong that the cat jumps that
way every time. When Brown sub
mitted his book, Merlin should have
been required to do the same, or the
advertising should have been award.
ed to Browns paper.
In Attala county, the official print
ing was awarded to the Cemt:a! Star,
late of Goodman, now of KOsciuskO.
The Board of Sups. of AttaIa is a
full Democratic Board. We congrat-
ulate the Star that is in the ascend
ant, and offer our friend "big ugly
of the Republican our most heartfelt
sympathy. He can. pay us back i'll
kind, if lie feels like it.
We have not had time to open
our exchanges to- Friday, to see
how it was in other counties.
Here in Madison the printing was
awarded to our business rival, the
Canton Nail. We did not know
there was to be a meeting of the
Board, and the award was made TO
the Mail without consulting us, and
certainly -" without our knowledge
or consent. We are not disposed to
make any complaints of the action
Of the Board. They were certainly
under no obligation to us for favors,
nor was it possible that they could
be. Radicalism and THE CITIZEN
are as far asrnder as the poles, and
always must he. We voted against
the member of this district (Breck }
at the last election, and would do it
IL thousand times were he a candi-
date SO often and we had a vote.
Why, then, should we expect him
TO vote for us and echo answers,