The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-05-31
THE TALE OF 4 LITTLE BOOK.

was having its sensation over Peter
Papin, the Senate was strained to- the
highest pitch Of excitement over the
effort to, ,obtail. little Insignificant book
which was said to ;be in the possession Of
one j. N. Mckay, who was up to this
time unknown to .she public of South
Carolina. The contents of this docu-
ment were said to BIZ of such s7nature as
to induce Whittemore to remain in the
favored cline of Massachusetts; and
hence, the Whittemore- Woodruff, inves-
tigating committee summoned Mckay,
and when he refused to deliver mp the
book the Senate delivered him up TO-
prison, -whereupon he thought it better
to part with the little memorandum than
to choke on. the sdaap of prison cell
for the sake Of shielding the crimes Of
Radicalism. The book was accordingly
delivered oi:the committee; and Mckay
was released from confinement, and will
be, examined as to the meaning of the
entries in it, which show that the Repub-
Ilican Printing Company paid SIXTY thou
saad dollars in brihes to secure the pas
sage of s225, 900 for public printing for
the session of 1872. The NesOs and
Courier gives the following statement of
the contents of this mysterious little
document: ,.,,,5a s..., q 8.
y The amount paid Cardozo, "for paying
iout the money from the treasury" was,
as the little book shows, $17 1866. So
+ The amount paid ex-G Governor Moses,
stfor approving the BILL" was $40, ,884!50.
F The amount paid to Nash, "forservices
in the Senate and al chairman of the
finance committee" was ST, 1000. -
:ll The amounts paid sYhittemore and Y:
y. p. Owens, "for services in the Senate" J"
was 5000 each. a-t.
~ The amount paid Tim Hurley, for ser
vices that can better be imagined than
described, was 81 800.
IS E.. w. NJ. Mackey, it appears, received:
about 81 500 "for important service" .
The book contains large number of
other entries of other amounts paid out
to members, running down as low as $50,
which make up the grand aggregate.
= These entries are a transcript from the
books of the Republican Printing Com
pany, made by their clerk, W. h. Jack
son, who has been spirited away to avoid
giving testimony. The committee are
after him, however, and as soon as ne
can be found no doubt criminal actions
will be instituted against the members OF
the Legislature who are alleged to have
been bribed, and against Woodruff and
Jones, the Clerks of the Senate and
House, who constituted the Company,
and are said to have done the bribing.
This matter should be vigorously pushed,
and the miscreants VINO have assisted IN
plundering the State SO shamefilly ought
to receive their emuch-merited, though
delayed, punishment.
There is one feature about this little
book, however, which has not been fully
ventilated, and that is the connection
which certain Democrats are said to have
had with these transactions, as shown by
the entries in this precious little volume.
The affair ought to be freely ventilated,
and full publication of its contents
given. 1t was the, peoples money which.
was squandered, and the public have
right to know all tho parties connected
with ths natter "Let no guilty man
escape,r is most excellent motto,
and we hope it will be adopted in South
South Carolina to-day in order to show
to world how much more meaning
there is in it when uttered by Democratic
officers Of the law than when it emanates
from Republican administration. We
insist that if Democrats have been en-
gagged in any such joh6ery, their political
rights should not be denied them. They
should be granted the same privilege
which is accorded to Republicans. They
should be allowed to stand trial for
their crimes, and their association with
thieves in public robbery should not be
allowed to go unnoticed. Give us all the
g.. c.,v, th;s ,,roc;ouo little booI which