Year: 1873

Amid tie agonizine groans of the Placer
Argus, which that organ gave vent to a
week after the teat from which it has fed
from infancy had been taken away from its
mouth, when the pangs of hunger began
to shake its emaciating system, and the
wolf of starvation was felt gnawing at it's
vtals, we could occasionally hear the faint
articulation of few words, from which it
might be inferred that its suffering and
doomed destruction were brought on by acts
of injustice. 1t claims that its executioners
were unjust men; that rather than let it
succeed in its underhanded, treacherous de-
signs, they would rob the county; that they
have violated their pledges of economy, etc.
ETC., etc.; during the whole of which the
poor half-wtted, crack Drained thing knows,
if it knows anything, that it is making false
statements, and stripping the whole routine
Of the actions of the gentlemen attacked of
every shade Of truth, for the mean purpose
of degrading them in the minds of the pub
lie, for no other reason than because it is the
sufferer. But this is not astonishing in the
Last to us, nor do we think the public are
surprised We have known the 1rgus
from pup. and we never Knew any good
of it, 1t was born under bad sign, and
the poor thing has been getting into some
meanness or other all its life, until it has
become so desperate that nothing is too
mean for it. 1t enters into the most unholy
alliances with a relish; it steals from the
public and cl inns that it is laboring for the
protection of what is theirs; it has no more
regard for justice than hog; it thinks no
more of telling the most atrocious lies than
a school boy does of killing toads; it would
sell out any man to make a point for itself,
and it would 90 back on its best frieSds and
patrons for the chance of gaining little
distinction. And this is the instrument that
now comes out and basey represents the
actions, and villanously attempts to stain
the characters of three of the best and
most reliatle men in Placer county, simply
because they would not toaddy to its wishes
and countenancc its meanness. In these
matters of county printing and Hospital
meat contract, that it howls so much about
we wish the public to distinctly understand
that there was no such thing as bidding fol
the contract in either case In both cases
certain parties proposed TO the Board to
take the contract at a certain price. Other
parties being informed that such propositions
were before the Board, and also learning the
prices asked, came rushing in with PROPOSE
tions to take the contract at much lower
rates. In both cases it appeared to the
Board that the latter propositions were rated
so low that their object was rather to de-
fraud those who presented petitions first,
than to make money, and the Board salts
fying themselves that the first proposals
were only reasonable as a na'ur conse
quence, as honest men should have done
ignored the latter and awarded the contract
to those who came first with honest inten-
tiors to do the work or furnish supplies as low
as they could afford, and what is the result
Simply this: That the meat for the County
Hospital will not cost the county as much
by over $500, according to the number tc
be fed, as it has cost heretofore; and al
advertisement of, say four squares, or forty
lines, for three months, will cost the county
at present rates $12 less than it would al
the rates they have heretofore paid. These
are facts which can be verified by oath,
and still the Argus gloats over the assertion
that our Reform Supervisors have gone
back on their pledges; have been guilty o
fraud, and are allowing the County Treas
ury to be depleted, and whole rgmarolt
of such characteristic bosh; and it knows
when it publishes such stuff, that it il
publishing a string of manufactured lies
The truth is, true, honest system of econ
omy has been inaugurated by the Board a
their very first sitting, which, if kept NJ
and adhered to, will immortalize them al
true benefactors of the county, and giv'
renewed confidence in the party that elected
them.





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