The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-03-16
PREvAR1oATINo "PIcKAwAY,"
And His Able Allies.
az THEIR Old TRICKs.

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CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES.
Picksway is picking at the Sentinel in
way that will make good John Fishbaclx cry
out of both eyes. One hundred and two
vouches have been picked out and furnished
to the Enquirer by that papers very indus
trlous and enterprising Indianapolis Pick.
who claims that the amount of So, 693 II Is
voting too much money for one paper TO
pick from the state in two years and eight
months. Perhaps it is, but We rather think
1t depends somewhat upon the amount OF
work cone, the amount OF material fur
nished, aud the quality of the material, as to
whether there was any stealing in the busi-
ness or not.
LFrom the Evansville CourieT.l
THE SENTINEL FAIR AND HONEST.
We have carefully examined the account
of the Sentinel against the state of Indiana
for nearly three years, beginning in May,
1872, and we do not see. that it is at all eXor-
bitant. The aggregate is So, 4Ol, or about
SCI, 900 per year, and that amount seems
quite small enough for the work done.
| Every item of the account is given in detail
and the fact that one of the best experts in
the West was unable to reduce the bill by
more than few hundred dollars, is the
strongest evidence that the Sentinel's bill
was fair and honest, because the parties
tuO OApCAb WCL0 lESCIOoIcu III
making out case against the Sentinel
Company.
[From the Evansville Courier.l
PUsiLLANDIoUs PIcKAwAY.
The last letter to the Cincinnati Enquirer
from Indianapolis contains this item
Fourth comes Shanklin, of the Evans
vile Courier, who fitted about here for a
week as lobbyist, and then, imbued with
an inspiration from his vile associates, he
speeds homeward to his Office and pours out
his eowardly sentiments, publicly giving the
| lie to the honest feeling of his heart, which
| he expressed to nBs privately
| The author of ibis statement is conceted
| boy, who was recently discharged from the
| Ohio Reform school, and who has been en-
plOyed during the session of the legislature
TO SANDER and abuse Indiana democrats. We
/ have nothing to do with him, but take plea
sure in Genouncing his employers as black
guards and knaves.
From the Vincennes SUM-
AN UTTER FAILURE.
The correspondent of the Cincinnati En-.
quirer has tailed utterly to make a single
point of the least Importance against the
Sentinel, connected with the state printing.
We supposed, after reading the bold
threats of exposure and the charges of
corruption, theft and fraud made by the
veracious correspondent, that he would
show that the Sentinel had robbed the
state of one hundred thousand dollars at
least; but instead of that be shows by the
records that the state printing has only cost
the taxpayers OF Indiana the sum OF So, 900
since the first of May, 1872, nearly three
/ years. and in the entire list OF vouchers
there is not single evidence of fraud, and
only few of over charging according to
the EnQuirer's own showing. II is true, he
SAYS, there are over charges amounting 10
$780, but in this he may be mistaken, and
certainly when the exhibit is taken ali
together, it
DOES CREDIT To THE SENTINEL
and to the good management of the COVER
nor and state officers, whose duty it was TO
make contracts for the public printing. If
a republican paper had been doing the state
printing, instead of the bills footing up only
$50, COO in three years, they would have been
that amount annually. Again we say
that "Pickaway" has made an
other failure and subjected HIM
self and his paper to the scorn and contempt
of all sensible and honest democrats in In
diana. We do not by any means object to
thieving democrats being exposed by the
ENQUIRER or any other paper-it is right
that it should be done-but there is no sense
or prOpriesy in the Enquirer's having
an INSCRIPTIONS correspondent at
Indianapolis, whose only work is
to abuse, Willy, falsely accuse
and maliciously SANDER some Of the best
and purest democrats in the state. If ne
had made the charges aud produced the
evidence OF their truth, he would have been
entitled to the thanks of the democratic
party of Indiana; but as he has failed to do
> this, we can only regard him in the light of a
meddlesome fellow, whose object is only to
attain a little notoriety, even though it be
at the expense of truth and justice, and by
the practice of methods which ought to rem
der him infamous.
From the Fort Wayne Sentinel
THE ENQUIRER's MUD MACHINE.
"Let brotherly love continue" is not the
motto of the indianapolis papers. 1t now
appears that the blackguard employed by
the Cincinnati Enquirer to throw mud at
the legislature and some prominent men of
the capital city, was not the head and front
of the attack (mentioned in this issue
elsewhere) against the honesty of the In
dlanapolis Sentinel. The employees of the
Journal did it with their little two
edged pencils. The " Pickawsy" of
the Enquirer is harbored by the
Journal, and over his shoulders the latter
=. sheet deals out ''foul " blows. II is claimed
that the showing made in the Enquirer is
the most favorable one possible, and is
: in marked contrast with the exorbitant
charges of the Journal for state printing.
The vsulting ambition to prove big "grab'
o'erleaped itself, and unwittingly the En-
quirer and its allies have furnished excel
] lent testimony to the good faith of its
, enemy. As the Sentinel sptly remarks,
if there be fraud overcharges in
its accounts, then Gov. Hendricks and
3 the republican officers who have audited
them must have been parties in this at
tempt to defraud the state. In the anxiety
t of the Journal and Enquirer to prove cor
ruption, frauds, grabs and other pleasant
: shortcomings not IN the case of the Indian
t apOlis Sentinel alone, but OF the legislature,
, they have oversbot the mark. Notwith-
standing the talents of a youth who is
|, termed
PROFESSIONAL LIAR AND EX CONVICT
) of the Ohio house of refuge" have been