Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, 1874-02-12
A OUIBBLING EDITOR.

If possible, an independent paper anu
substitute for it supple tool Of ''the
parties who were to come into power
Here are the editors own words, in
sllusion to our course in supporting
the Tomlinson ticket in opposition to
the regular ticket:
"He wilfully and purposely kept his
&c course, or. a side that all admitted TO
be the embodiment of. weakness, and
1--WE can only say that he stuck to his
sfriends, sohen a single aoord from HIM
g might have turned the tide Of events,
"apd no paper would have risen, Ban
"quo-like, to frighten him"
So far he tells the truth. The rest
of his article contains as much false
hood as bad grammar, which is saying
. good deal.
Heshows in his article that he knows
all about the four hundred dollar trans
action. AS to whether there was any
division of the spoil we are not in
formed. He may be entitled to o share
himself for ausht We know. II 1t did
not all 20 where we supposed, he evil
IDENTIFY can tell us all about itl
He either knows nothing OF the
finances of the concern over which he
nominally presides, or he descends to
a very miserable bubble when he as
serts that 'snot mill has been received
by it for work done for the state.'
Why, the truth is, that it will take one
mill on every dollar of the taxable val
ne of real and personal property in the
county of Beaufort to support this
s'organ" for the first year Of its exist
ence.
; The treasurer of Beaufort county,
one ofthe owners of the Standard, has
received an order from the state treas
urer to take from the taxes now being
; collected, the sum of TWENTY FIVE
HUNDRED DOLLARS in payment Of the
contract of the Stoadardfor publishing
the laws. The same amount of adver-
Using if done for private individual,
calculated at the fullest rates, would
not exceed four hundred dollars.
Senator Smalls, another owner, and
the real "boss" of the concern, has al
30 a passed claim against the state
treasury for TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED
DOLLARS, for publishing the proclama-
tions, etc. The work for which this
enormous sum is charged by the own
ers of the Standard would be done for
any private person for two hundred
dollars 1t was put through the senate
because Smalls was known to be per
sonally interested in it, and it passed
the house only by legislative trick OF
its friends; for so gross was the fraud,
30 evident was the steal, that even the
hardened members of that not over
scrupulous body were astounded at its
audacity. Mr.. Bowley, owner Of the
Georgetown Plauet said at the time
that if the paper could get five hundred
dollars for the same work he would
think il big price.
The money received from the deiin:.
quent list will swell the amount which
the Taxpayers of Beaufort county con-
tribute to sustain newspaper which
will support Senator Smalls and the
state administration to over SIX THOU
SAND DOLLARS for one year. SO we
fall short when we say that one mill
on the dollar of all the taxable proper
ty of this county goes into this little
ring of four links, called the Southern
Standard.
Let every taxpayer remember, there
fore, when he pays in twelve dollars
for state taxes to the county treasurer,
that one dollar of it is for the susten-
ance Of this ''organ" "and another col
lar is for the Republican Printing ring
in Columbia, Of which the Standard
is 9 young but growing ofshoot.
Yes George, we could have had all
this and more. We couid not pay the
price, but you eagerly snapped at the
bargain. 1t was only to prostitute
tongue and pen and brain to an igno-
bic service To be the eager adnlator
of the base and despicable !! You have
performed the service and you have |