The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-31
A LAST WORD.

relative to the printing contract Of 1873, we
will state that the state Printer now holds
State warrants to the amount Of forty-two
thousand dollars These warrants have been
enioined, and neither he nor his associates can
collect them. The State Printer has received
from the State for fifty Thousand dollars
worth Of printing done In 1878, about nineteen
hundred dollars in cash; for the residue he
holds warrants which have been enjoined,
and which, therefore, the Treasurer cannot
pay.
Now, II the State Printer has overcharged
the State, either through mistake or inten-
tionally and criminally, 1t is the imperative
duty OF the Attorney General to institute a
civil suit against him for the overcharge, and
II in the course Of the suit It should appear
that the State Printer made Intentionally
fraudulent charges, then 1t is the further
duty OF the Attorney General to institute
criminal proceedings against him. Further,
II 1t be true, as some anonymous slanderer,
signing himself Taxpayer" charges, that
the DEMOCRAT has overcharged for work done
for the city, 1t ID the duty Of the City Attorney
TO take civil steps. and. II necessary, criminal
steps, to protect the interest OF the city.
Why should this controversy be prolonged
beyond this In the newspapers? II we refute
the allegations OF fraud against an account,
tomorrow gang OF hired periurers will at
tack some other Of the accounts OF the State
Printer. and thus the controversy will 60 on
interminably. This whole matter ought to be
settled, II the State Printers accounts are not
correct, by the institution of suits against
him by both the Attorney General and the
City Attorney.
This is the plain and simple method OF set
Ting the whole matter. Hence, IL the Attor-
ney General and the City Attorney do not in
stitute suit against the State Printer for the
sums alleged to be overreached, then the re-
sponsibility is upon them, and we invite the
Times and Pcaysne to level their attacks In
that direction. It is certainly the duty of
these officials, as the matter stands. to declare
that, In their opinion, neither the State nor the
city has been defrauded or to take prompt
steps to recover from the State Printer, who
holds large amounts Of State warrants, the
balance due the State and the city.
We make this suggestion solely and simply
for the public benefit. For the criticisms Of
the Pcawlae and Times we care nothing.
The first was for years the journalistic mis-
tress OF Warmoth and Kellogg, and the pro-
prietor OF the second has been proved to have
robbed the hospital fund OF six thousand dol
lars. When did the proprietors of either OF
these Infamous and indecent sheets call for
an investigation Of their dirty work. When
did any Legislative committee ever give
them certificate OF honestly The Pic
aytne has for years been VIGOROUSLY a pros
titute In politics, and the only time the pro-
prietor OF the Times was ever investigated by
Legislative committee he was convicted,
after hearing OF the evidence on both sides,
OF having robbed the Charity Hospital fund
OF SIX thousand dollars Did this miserable
seoundrel ever demand a trial, as the State
Printer has done? Did this dastardly thief
OF the New Orleans Times ever find an op-
portunity to explain the process by which he
robbed the poor sick OF six thousand dollars?
No. When the report Of the committee was
made public, like whipped cur, like con-
victed thief, he skunk away without word OF
explanation. Then let the vile and Infamous
scoundrel, the convicted thief, the hypo-
critical rascal who denounced the Democrats
OF Louisiana as white rebel skunks and now
assumes to run newspaper In their interest,
hold his malignant tongue. The prostituted
Pscdylne deserves the ducking stool. and the
hospital thief OF the Times deserves the peni-
tertiary.