Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, 1874-03-26

2, 1000, which would have been large
rice for extra copies, in which there was
o composition of the type. This would
make another difference of $l,6s4.l0.
The items for 1000 copies of the Re
'orts and Joint Resolutions was doubt
ess raised in the same way from $4,000,
viaich would be very liberal price, to |
81, ,3eO.6S, difference again Of as
,9O.6S. ("
The item for 5000 Ku Klux Trials is
/ swindle all through, which we will dis
,uss in another place. But we will first
put it down as it doubtless appears on
Cardozo's vouchers, if indeed, he has
any. So put 5000 Ku Klux Trials S4S
pages at S3.4S per page for each 1000
copies, is Sl4,s55, difference of 81, ,255.
The item "sundry books and docu'
ments for executive departments has an
ancient and fish-like smell. Mr.. Cardo-
20 has himself, in the Allen trial, defined
the word sundries" in legislative par
lance. to be a convenient term for
swindle." We will not undertake to dis,
pute his knowledge ofthe subject. We viii
however, be liberal in our treatment ofthis
particular "sundry" because we are sure
that Mr.. Cardozo recognized it the in
slant he saw it. Now the two clerks in
their defence claimed that it took $685.
600 to do the executive work. We are
going to put it down at that. So there is
another difference of SlS,743.
Let us now construct new table, 60
ing into all the swindling Tweedisms.
The vouchers will then read as fol-
lows
THE TwEEDED VOUCHERS.
Three thousand FIVE hundred copies Re
yised Statutes, 1862 pages, at 1876 per
page for each 1000 copies. sl6,2O6 L
Supreme Court decisions, 2 vols, 1910 pa
ges at 1886 per page, 4'eoo W
Statutes at Large, s vols, 4,752 pages at
s,ss per page. 1910 90
Ku.Klux Trials, 5000 copies, at s3.4s per
nage for each l. 600 copies 14,755 90
Report OF Joint Investigating Committee,
2ls pages at S34s per page for each 1000
copies. 1854 ~
Reports and Joint Resolutions, 2,1I pages
at 60 4s pcr page 1890 6s
s,rdrv executive documents. $4,000 90
Total. S9l,lll W
According to the first account, Mr.
Cardozo has paid S250,000..for work,
which, at a contract price and liberal
price for extras, only should have cost
the State S51 ,4O1.72.
According to the second account,
Mr.. Cardozo has paid $250,0OO for work,
which at even the most exorbitant stretch
to which the contract with the Republi-
can Printing Company can be subjected,
can only be figured up to $9l,lll,OO.
1t will be seen that allowing for bills
forced by a fraudulent construction of the
contract to the highest point, that there
is still Sl5S, $50 to be accounted for. We
do not hesitate to say that Mr.. Cardozo
has no vouchers for the balance save
q simple order or receipts from Woodruff
and Jones. He cannot plead that he
was duped into paying; no man
knew better than he the character of
the printing swindle. He paid the bills
them to be gross frauds. He
defends his action. He declines to
aid in bringing the facts to light. There
IS but one inference His professions
of honesty are as false as the printing
bills he has paid.
The enunciation by Mr.. Cardozo, in
MS controversy with Hardy Solomons and
;he Comptroller General, that he knew it
% be his duty to examine and verify the
'ouchcrs for claims which had been
passed upon by the legislature, and for
which he had the same kind ola order
o pay that he had in the case Of this
printing claim, encouraged for moment
he belief in our minds that he would not
tand in the way of thorough investi-
,ation of such an enormous swindle.
3ut we found that his action in the one
aso was directly the reverse of his ac-
ion in the other. How can it be ex-
,lained in any other logical. way than that
While he was pretending to protect the
in the certificate case he was me E.
y putting a screw on Hardy Solomons for
lis own gain, and that in the case of the
Printing Company no screw was needed
all difficulties having been l" fixed"
Again we ask Mr.. Cardozo to remem-
,cr that Tngersol is in the Albany pcni-
entiary for making ont fraudulent bills,
md William NJ. Tweed, is in the Black
veil Island County prison of New York
ity, for auditing and allowing fraudu-
ent bills.
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