The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-12-13
Ionn Derress, pa1IIc printer.


AS tho Public Printer at Washington is
and has been for several years citizen Of
West Virginia, the following reference to
him by "Gath, in the Cincinnati Enquirer,
will be read with interest by many OF our
people, especially in that portion of the
State Morgan county, Of which he is a
residents
II observe that there Is steady run on
the part Of the machine politicians and
State bosses to get away from Mr.. John
Defrees the post OF Public Printer. That
Is considerable place ut Washington,
only because he employs two thousand or
more type.setters, prcsSmen, feeders, stitch.
ing.girls, etc. Ills great crime Is his do
GenCy. Under his control the office has
been white as snow. lilo has not kept Il
harem among the women in his employ,
nor allowed Senators and members to pay
their diminishing bills in that Office, nor
cheated the Government in paper con-
tracts. The lobby has held away from Mr..
Deirces, and lilo has shown the same
inaexibility under Hayes and Garfield that
ho showed under President Lincoln, who
made him the Public Printer. He has kept
the scandals out OF the office which existed
there under Cornelius Wendell and others,
until Oliver +. Morton, desiring to be re-
yenged on Mr.. Deirees for not insisting
him in State politics, made the wretChed
coalition which has ever since put the OIL
GERS Of the Senate In tho merchandise OF
partnership. Judge Davis, the other day,
made manly defamation against the cor.
rupt system which has come into the Sem
ate only III the deal between the stalwatts
and the rebels. Logan and Cameron are
each pressing printers for the Office.
Mr. Defrees has redeemed the place from
the condition II was in under the senile
and sensual Clapp, whose face Is n sign OF
mendicancy and sycophanCy, and who
still crawls around Washington like a mud.
turtle trying to find some place TO bask.
Mr. Qeifees was for many years tiewspa.
per printer in Indianapolis, and u Wing Of
Wings, lie employed Henry Ward Bee.
cher when clergyman out there to con.
tribute anagricultural column for his paper,
one Of the iirst In the West. Subsequently
he brought up the ungriteful cub, Schuyler
Collax, whose downfall and his dHscrtion OF
Mr. Deirees came utmost simultaneously.
MIR. Morton, having been y Democratic nc.
cession, was not particularly iancied by
Deireesi and Mr.. Morton hid hardly got
to the Senate when he antagonized-in
fact degraded-Nfr Deirees by forming
coalition with Fenton and the CarpGt.bng.
gers TO swap away the printing Office from
Indiana. The pusillanimous Coliax took
to bis heels rs soon us lie saw tue object OF
Mi. Motions pnmity, and Nlrs. Defrees,
tehh In In ttfouuftlp1 tntunnI notunI nt,n
OF her children for Coliax, bundled back
to that creature his god.iather's cup and
other small articles otsnivel, so that Srhuy.
Ter went around Washington and through
the Indiana circle for soinu DAYS trying 10
make martyr Of himself. lie was finally
given one Of the most ample opportunities
known since the celebrated rupture OF
Judas Not one word has been heard
against the printing Office at Washington
City in years, except the ordinations Of
lot Of local editors there, who want the
printing Office run as tender 10 their OF.
nans,