Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1898-11-03
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! priations
You speak of me being discharged
| from my position. My physical con-
dition al the time would have justified
| this.
| 1t may be that it was my misfortune
that one of the leading contractors for
the furnishing of supplies to the printing
! department was relative of one OF the
officers in the Executive department,
one near to the Governor. One of the
| first bills this contractor presented for
| approval was not satisfactory TO me.
declined TO approve it. The gentleman
referred TO in the executive depart
ment spoke to me about this bill; he
! thought it was a reasonable one. he
informed me that the gentleman pre-
senting it was a relative of his and
very honest man Finally l submit
ted the bill TO the Attorney General.
! Mr. Mccormick sustained me in my
| objections to the bill and was kind
| enough to compliment me on my act
ion. 1t may be that my action was not
satisfactory to the contractor and his
| friend in the executive department,
and the Governors mind may have
| been influenced from this quarter and
! the bird book may have been used for
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subject of criticism at the time; the
| Governor having just returned from his
! visit 10 the Pacific
| As to the Bird Book let me say that
Me5sers Pearson and Warren were the
authors of bulletin No. Il. 4 joint res
olution was passed and approved by the
! Governor authorizing them to repro
duce that bulletin, with whatever 'ad
| ditions and changes they saw proper to
make | issued an order for them TO do
so in April. 1891 This order was given
| to Mr. Busch the state printer. His
contract came to an end ar the first of
July of the same year His establish
ment was located on Third street. The
new contractor, Mr.. Ray, began opera
tions at the same date in a building on
Tenth street The law required me to
have my office in his building. Thus |
was removed from Third street and had
no more to do with the old establish
ment further than to see that the PRINT
er used good material IN his work, that
the work was well done and that the
bills. when presented We're correct.
was in no case an editor never heard
from this bulletin again until sometime
IN March of the present year. / was OF
course astonished at hearing of its eX-
tent and cost. but | know no one to
blame except the Legislature that pass
ed the joint resolution. the Governor
who approved it, or DR.. Warren who
edited it, The truth is DR.. Warren was
understood to be one of the Governor
trusted friends, hence his confidence IN
him. In the interest OF the combine he
had, in company with Mr.. Moore of
Bradford County Qater of Oleomargar-
Inc notoriety) canyassed the northeast
ern part of the State in the interest of
the combine and against Senator Quay.
You refer to d printing bill of Mr.
Raw which the assistant Attorney Gen
eral cut down about 81. 800. You seem
TO know little of the subject. The So
800 of which you SPEAK Is the gross
amount. The actual or net amo@nt
will be found by subtracting from this
| gross sum eighty three and one hun
| dredth of one per cent sum reaching
| S129l.24, but your first figures are too
| high.
But Won still further mislead your
hearers. inferentially inducing them to
believe that | had passed that bill APP
provingly. when the fact is 1t was that
reduced the bill 1t was then referred
to the Attorney Generals office for final
decision, in the main he sustained my
rulings.
But it is Just to the State Printer to
say that most of the rejected items
were rejected by me because he had
| done the work on oral orders from the
different departments without any writ
| ten orders having been issued to my de-
| partment | was desirous of impress
ing upon both the departments and the
state printer the necessity for regularity
| IN these matters.
In conclusion permit me to say that
few men are perfect | know am not,
| but if any man says that the State lost
dollar through the management OF
| the state printing Office during my con
trOl of il with my knowledge or consent
khe is an unqualified liar
| You1s coldly,
THOS. ROBINSON.
p. S.--DEAR SIR:
Since writing the above / notice
your explanation of your gross mistake
IN regard to your estimate Of the cost OF
| the State printing for the last year
| from July first. 1891 IT, July first, !S9s!
you blame the reporter, claiming that
| you embraced two years In your figures,
1928, 900, but you Will not succeed in
| inducing any intelligent citizen TO be
| lieve YOU You had made quite num-
| ber of statements, each or them emDrac-
ing but one year You had already
given the cost of the year from July 80
TO July. 81 Surely you dad not then
embrace the same year in your last
| guess.
An old backwoodser was once telling
of his exploits He said he was harvest
ing in the meadow one day, moving
hay; he had sat down under shade tree
! 10 rest when deer came along he took
| after il aud after along chase up hill
and down. hp caqght IT, One Of the
| listeners expressed great surprise; III
| fact expressed great doubt that such
| thing was possible The old hunter re-
marked that he could not have succeed
ed had it not been for the fact that 1t
was in the winter with deep snow on
| the ground with crust which carried
I him while the deer broke through.
Why" SAID bis listener You said 1t
/ was in harvest time Did L., said he
| he IF so | must have ran two stories
| into one" You run the years 96 and
~ together, but when you are penned
you take both these years aud place
them with '97-S, you are simply caught
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