Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-08-18

can P"J. II wes WnoIiy ABOUT Oem-
ocratic conferees, their friends and can.
didates, and was full Of charges Of the
use Of money sgAinst certain parties,
Of the truths Of which we knew nothing,
and which the man who wished US to
publish them could not substantlate.
We do not publish such irresponsible
stuff, and particularly when 1t comes
from parties who have a paper them
selves. They were not our political
friends. If they were, then they play
ed their own people false, for they pro-
fessedly supported the Democratic can
didates in the Independenf. If they
supported the Democratic party in their
paper and organized secretly, or worked
secretly against it, they prostituted
themselves TO mean level. Such peo-
pie, aud such paper will reach male
diction 10 times own good way.
! 1t is also intimated that our rela-
tinns With some one-it does not say
who's and has been Improper with
regard to the public printing. We
do not threaten for such charge, but
We will give one hundred dollars to the
man or men who can make it good.
We do get the county printing. We
ale entitled TO it by law. 1t is a wise
provision for every county, nov, we
/ believe, in this commo wealth that the
public transactions shall be published,
so that the tax payers may know where
their money goes, and We take this oc-
casiOD 10 say that the fault of many
published statements is that they are
not long enough, not itemized enough.
They are too much IN bulk. We do
not know it to be the case, but state
ments have come under our eye, and
sc have published such, that were so
little itemIzed that little could be told
about them they were in bulk sufii
cient to have contained "snakes" that
would have paid for the printing of
them many times above the cost of
printing. The object of the law is that
the whole financial transaction shal. be
published, so that the tax payers may
know how the money is expended. The
experience Of the country is that where
there j, no publication of statements
of public affairs, rings build up in puo-
lie matters ana rob the public in the
most outrageous way. But few years
ago ring was formed in the county OF
York, whereby the public was robbed
of about one hundred thousand dollars
before they knew it. BY getting an
act passed authorizing the publication
of county matters Of fuance the thing
was in a great measure broken up. In
New York city millions on millions Of
dollars we're filched out of the treasury
by the Boss Tweed ring, and 1t was no,
broken up until statements of The affairs
of the city were published, ard they
we're obtained only by the greateat diff
fieulty by a Republican paper. We
charge no more than our published
iates for public printing. Sometimes
we print for private parties fer less than
our published rates. That is our busi-
ness, just as it is lawyers business,
or doctors business if he chooses to
charge or not charge for services rem
6ered. In the intercourse with the
present board of County Commissioners
our business transactions "will stand
the test of the light of the judgment
day." for honesty and fair dealing be-
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the public. Nothing Of a busines:
character has ever passed that could
not have been openly done before any
of the congregations where the praying
writers of the Independent render in-
pure worship.