Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1871 — More Reform in Public Expenditures. [ARTICLE]

More Reform in Public Expenditures.

lion. Richard J. llright, proprietor of the Indianapolis Sentinel and Stale Printer, is today probably the most extensively advertised man hi Indiana. Not since the Indianapolis Journal published an article in which it Was charged that Mr. Bright had filed bills with, the Auditor of State, Mr. Shoemaker, and received pay for something like 1,000 reams of hook paper more than was or could have been used by him in printing public documents. These claims were sworn to by Mr. Bright as “just and true,” and were endorsed by CoL Eddy, Secretary of State, as is the custom. By this transaction Mr. Bright has drawn §20,000 irom the Stale treasury more than he was entitled to receive—or, in other words, ho has swindled the Siato out of that much money l»y false pretenses and downright perjury. This is the substance of the Journal* charge and it lias been repeated in each issue for more than ten days. Mr. Bright as yet makes no denial of these allegations, but rather seems to think it was a smart transaction and justifies himself with the adyicoin this classic couplet which he t mkfor the text of a recent editorial referring to the matter: '"When yon got a good thing, save It, save it: When you catch u black cal skin him to the taUt**““ ' Not only lias every issue of the Journal for the past ten days contained substantially a reiteration of its charges of thievery against Mr. Bright and of the connivance of the Atditor of S»ate, but the insolent silence of the Sentinel in refusing cither to deny the charge or oflVr explanations has brought forth eevero comments from the leading Democratic papers of the State. — The Vincennes Sun, edited by pen. Kise, well known as a prominent Democratic leader, tbe Terre Haute Journal and others, do not hesitate to denounce Mr. Bright and his ooniriers as thieves and scoundrels, and demand that ho bo removed from office. Mr. C. O. Woolley, a prominent Democratic politician of Ohio, in a recent letter to the Indianapolis Journal commenting upon an announcement of the Cincinnati Times that Hon. Thos. A. Hendricks and Hon. Daniel W. Yciorfiecs had been engaged to assist in canvassiqg Ohio this fall, suggests that “the Hon. Jefferson Davis” be also engaged “as a worthy co-laborW with Mr. Hendricks;” and remarks that “his receut efforts in behalf of the Democracy fully entitle him to the recognition of an executive coin-' mittee that will invite Mr. Hendricks to speak to Ohio Democrats.” Not many days ago the Chicago Republican took occasion to- characterize lion. D. W. Voolices’ announced determination to retire from public life as “a disreputable plagiarism from Mr. Colfax.” Ilad the Republican taken second thought it would never have used the term “disreputable plagiarism,” for at no time since the war lias, a prominent Republican determined upon a commendablo action but some Democrat was emulous to share in its glory. “Plagiarism” nothing; it is a “hew departure.” • Desiring a gratuitous advertisement in Jasper county, the Valparaiso VideUt among otjhor pointless squibs in its loeal columns has the following: “The young man front Rensselaer who took an engine house at Fort Wayne for a brass band, has returned home. Hurry up the Fort Wayne & Pacific railroad.” Gauging the questions to his calibre, the author of the quotation is asked, Where was that engine house taken to? and what did a bras 6 band use it for? When we ascertain the editor of the Kentland Democrat has faithfully tried that agricultural prescription recommended by the Union three or four 'ftreeks since—which was to open his o * fronlit and spade in a few shovels-full of Peruvian guano—being anxious to see “how the old thing works” we sltstll offer to publish his prospectus for an exchange, unless he replaces us on his list. Tbe Kentland Gazette says, “Geo. White threshed his wheat last week «id it yielded 35 bushels to the acre, and he sold it at $1.07 per bushel/’ Wbat has been the bigIn Jasper county this scawho can tell us?