The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-04-07

step, speaks with mild voice and strokes
his long but mild whlskers with one Of the
mildcst Of good right hands. Besides be-
ing mild, tie major is sharp. In fact, we
have little doubt he is sharper than he IL
mild, although 1t is q notable fact that he
IL milder than a May morning in Lo wer
Egypt He was . model business mana
ger for the easy-going and honest but
sharp Journal company that has always
an eye single to its own sggrandizsment.
After this recitation we need not say that
when Business Manager Bsilhache deter
mined to obtain the public printing no
meant business. Without going into de-
tails he Informed his friends that he In.
tended to obtain the contract. When he
volunteered this Information be winked a
mild wink and smiled mild smile To
DO brief, the business manager secured the
printing, and In doing so spent Slo,5o0 TO
induce other parties not to bid. The evil
dence showed that nearly all Of the pro-
posed bidders had not the ability TO
do tho work even IL the contract had been
| awarded TO them, and that they had pub.
liehed their intention TO bid for no other
purpose than TO blsckmail tho only two
! printing Offices in Spring heldat that time
prepared to do the work for the State.
After purchasing his competitors and
obtaining the contract for the Journal
Register combination, Major Bailhache,
who has a temper II he Is a mild man,
quarreled with Col. d. l.. Phillips, Of the
Journal Company, and Indignantly but
very mildly loft his position Of business
manager and became scarcher after re-
venge. Hating Phillips. who is a kind Of
human ,rAb-apple-sour and soldsh-the
major concluded that he could injurs that
gentleman most by taking from him the
contract for the public printing and at
the same time do himself some possible
good by getting another opportunity, upon
e re-letting of the work, TO buy Off the
boys again, or soil. Ho accordingly "let
tho cat out Of the bag" instigsted the
printing investigation and testified with
out blush to his own shame. The major
10 ono Of the ablest Of witnesses voice low
manner mildly sorrowful, replies prompt
he swears unsteady; indeed, wo woult
l. rather hear him swear against Phillips, o,
any other man no dislikcs, than listen I,
Missions singing or to Robert Ingersol
making political speech. Daring the in
r |
tho swearing of Bailhache and AWAY.
regretted when he left the stand. Judg,
Bradwell was catranced. lie could mo-
get enough of the major, and whenever
y any other fellow dared to swear anything
that had tendency to explain the con
duct Of tho printers he would Instant,
: place Bailhache on tho stand TO contra
dict the printers witness, and while tn,
- msjer proceeded mildly and unsteady I,
. perform his duty in this regar,
- the Judge would fairly hang upor
"ths music of his eloquent lips,
Granger would close HE eye
in excess Of pleasure, Aeitzs
arouse himself to attention, and
Barley, Thornton, Smith and the other
members Of tho committee look more than
We can express.
And this is tho whole. Of: IL Major
Bailhache bought of competition and Sc
cured the contract for the printing to the
'Journal-Register' men, and then told on
his confederatcs. In every other particu-
lar the printers have acted in an unobjec.
tionsble manner in so far as the contract
for printing is concerned. The charges
for press work we're directed to be made
by the state officers who are
authorized to construe the law
and the contract. We are of
the opinion the construction given to the
law Is not the right constru ction, but the
law is loose one, and there is every
. reason to believe that the officers acted
. conscicn!iously. But, no matter, no one
0 can blame the printers for receiving wha,
the state officers insisted they must take
The whole matter may DO thus stated
]. Thetrading man Of tho journal, Ma
jor Bailhsche, Of his own volition, bought
of competition, and obtained the printing
for the Journal and the Register tie
then quarreled with the heavy stockholder
of tho journal and lost his situation,
whereupon he took advantage of his own
wrong, exposed his passive con federste,,
and endcsvored to injurs them in their
purses. The result Of the exposure is .
law that will send Major Bailhache cor
any other man." to tho penitentary,
If he should again exercise his ability rs
buyer Of bidders.
2. The contractors bid twenty-five
cents for one hundred Impressions Of book
and pamphlet presswork. They claimed
that eight pages constituted . form of
such work. They proved that thoy in
tended to bid for eight pages, and that
precedent in Springfield made eight pages
form, Tho state officers decided in &C.
cordance with tho claim Of the printers.
The committee decided tina. when no,
, otherwise stipulated sixteen pages cons,i.
sused a form, and that settlement should
be made on that basis. The consequence
OF ms discussion was that the bill re-
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