The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-02-10
satanic practice.


here. Best in the State.
Satanic Practice.
During the last election the Demo-
cratic orators and the press in the in
fuence of that party were iterating
and reitcrating that, for electioneering
purposes--to arouse the hatred of the
people against tyranny and injustice
and thus assist in uniting the Repub-
lican party, tie stories of murders.
cruelty, and political tyranny and pro-
scr ptions, were invented, and a uni
ted effort Of lying and misrepresenta-
ton was resorted to in order to effect
this object. And now, when proof
positive has been adduced that the
truth was then told with only half of
its terrible reality, tie same lying
spirits-worthy agents Of the devil
are still busily engaged in branding
the truth as falsehood, and avering
that such men as Butter and Morton
have goaded the Democrats Tin Con-
grcss) provoking them to indiscre-
iions of speech" and. by that means
have succeeded in uniting the Repub-
licans there, So that partizan legisla-
ton Civil Rights BilD may be socur-
ed
On our first Rage, from an editorial
in the Cincinnati Commercial, will be
found sufficient in the conclusions of
the editor of that journal, to justify
every honest man in the land in lie
nounc;pg the "banditti" Democracy
and murderers of the South, and
their aiders and abettors of the North,
in betting terms of truth and sober
ness, for crimes committed and aid
and comfort rendered. When devils
baud together. good men should unite
City Printinx--Law DIsreGsrded.
At the meeting oil the City Council
on the "a inst, the following petition
was presented. which explains itself:
city of Richmond:
PETITION OF BENZ, W. DAVIS, PUBLISH
Err OF THE PALLADIUM.
GENTLEMEN-In pursuance of
due notice, received from the Clerk
of the City of Richmond, and at
the time specified in an Ordinance
passed and approved on the 18th
day of December, 1872, .'to pro
vide for letting" the City Printing
by contract, to wit; stem days pre-
vious to the first regular meeting
of the Council in January last
'.for one year. the undersigned
submitted his bid for said public
Printing" at the following rates,
to-wit: For advertising, eighteen
1S) cents per square, of 10 lines.
for each insertion, and thirty 1907 |
cents per 1000 ems for compost
ton, and thirty 1907 cents per
token of $50 impressions for press
work for job printing.
As the said Ordinance made it
the duty of your City Clerk. Peter
p. Kirn. to issue said notices to /
the publishers of each of the
or the proprietors of
other printing establishments i'll
the city. the natural conclusion
would necessarily follow, that the
said city Clerk would be the proper
OF said '.sealed propo-
sails Hence the undersigned as
no invariably has done heretofore !
as he did last year when the print
ing Mas awarded him) when sub
hitting O bid for the Public I
Printing. directed it las will be
seen by reference to the envelope |
to PETER p kiaS, Cry CLERK
he being sworn officer of the City,
and the accredited channel through
whom communications inviting
bids" should properly come to |
the City Council for investigation
made 40 by the Ordinance above /
referred to; aud the undersigned |
RESPECTFULLY submits the point. not
withsianding the extraordinary |
arrived a. by your com
mittse ON prin ing at the last meet
ing of tine Council, Ito whom said |
bids were referred that said com
mittee collectively, OF individually. |
had no legal or moral right to
open the bid" of the undersigned,
and that no one. excepting the
Off GER to whom it was addressed.
was duly authorized to open it,
No charge of fraud or '.combina
ton" was either made or sustained
against the Clerk for opening said
ssbids could there be, from
the fact that HE is not an interested
party in any way and, besides, the
parties bid,iing, If the Conncil de
sire to satisfy itself, viii both aver
that their bids, after having been
opened by the said Clerk and we're
in possession of said committee, /
were unaltered-unchanged in any
particular, End Just as they were
originally penned by the bidders
who were competing for the con
tract for the Public Printing
In consideration of the above
good and sufficient reasons. deemed
such by the undersigned petitioner,
for rights he thinks are secured to |
him bya fair and impartial con
struction of the law, in letter and
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