Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-12-24
THE LEGISLATIVE PRINTING.

The secretary oil the territory III sauna
Fe is going through the usual farce of adj
vertising for bids for the territorial
printing. Everything is. as usual, cut
and dried in advance, and any honest
printer that imagines he will stand any
chance to get any part OF the work Is
good deal more Verdant than any OF the
plains of New Mexico. This is one OF the
plums the Santa Fe ring always reserves
for its organ at that place, and there Is
never any lack of pretexts upon which to
throw out any bids that threaten to inter
Iere with such disposition of the patron
age. Col. Max. stands by the ring, and
the ring stands by Col. Max and if you
don't like it you are simply asked, in the
language of the late Mr. Tweed, what are
you going to do about it!"-but there Is
no politics" in the matter. The ring is
always for the ring and works both
parties with the utmost Partially. 1t
didn matter a cent that the admlnlstra-
ton of Gov. Ross was Democratic. The
ring manipulated the public printing for
the benefit of the rings organ under bids
lust the same as under any other, ana
will continue to do. The ring is omnlpo-
tent at Santa Fe, and the public printing
is one of the smallest of its stealS.--Albu-
querque Democrat.
The New MEXICAN reprOduces the above
for the purpose of letting everybody
know that this paper is not afraid to have
the question of doing the public printing
in New Mexico fully and diligently in
vestigated.
The long and short of the matter is,
that there is not another printing estab-
lishment in the territory that could pos
sibly do this work within the time specl-
fed and under the regulations of the treas
ury department.
The NEW MEXICAN PRINTING COMPANY
was awarded the public printing two
years ago because it was then the lowest
responsible bidder. Six years ago the
contract for it was then awarded to A. j.
Carruth, of Las Vegas, and he did the
work. Four years ago Spradling and
Clark were the bidders and sublet the
work to the New MEXICAN PRINTING Com
PANy. On yesterday the New MEXICAN
PRINTING COMPANY, being the only bidder,
the contract was awarded it by Secretary
Alexander, as in right and justice 1t
should have been.
Where in these instances any ring busl-
ness came in, this journal would like to
know and it challenges the Albuquerque
Democrat or any one else, friend or foe,
to find any trace or the least indication
of either dishonesty in the bids or dis
honesty in the work or prices of the NEW
MEXICAN PRINTING COMPANY. The best
equipped printing office and bindtry IN
New Mexico Is the one operated by the
New MEXICAN PRINTING COMPANY. There
is no other establishment in New Mexico
that can do the work. That being the
case why charge dishonesty and why not
give fair play, even if this journal is
Republican journal.
The enterprise and energy of this cor
poration in maintaining a first-class
steam job printing Office and steam bind
cry and employing skilled workmel
should certainly be acknowledged by al
fair minded men.
Be this as it may, this corporation pro
poses to go straight ahead and secure al
the work it possibly can at living anc
fair prices, and will do all the work it car
in frst-class and satisfactory shape.
We propose to have fair play in thi
matter, and if we can not have fair pla.
and Just consideration one way, we will
get it another way; of this our contem
poraries, the Albuquerque Democrat AM
all others, may be very certain
Furthermore, if a compliance witt
the requirement of the law b,