Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-09-13
The County Printing.

4 St~e
~ printing Locofoco ike, misconstfuing our
remarks in several important particulars. We
stated where one Office done all the county
printing, that 25 cents square for the first
insertion, and 12a cents for every subsequent
insertion, was fair price for the work
The editor of the Democrat, to make our
remarks look inconsistent, publishes our ad-
vertised rates for printing. as follows:
One square. ID lines, first insertion so, so.
Do each additional insertion 25
The above are our prices for a single square
for FIVE or six weeks. Had the Democrat had
the honesty to publish our prices in full, he
would have seen that our charges for one
square for three months was only about Is
cents per week, or for one year not quite ten
cents--ffteen cents less per square than we
stated we could do the county printing for
And if our neighbor wished his readers to un-
derstand the facts, why did he not inform
them that when we published whole column
for one person for one year. we did not charge
him quite four cents square per week.
The ground that we assume is this: That
the county should be placed on an equality
with persons who have printing to do. If
any of the merchants of Fremont wished to
occupy one page of the Democrat for three
weeks, Mr.. Orton would not think of charging
him over thirty or forty dollars, but when the
county occupies that space, be charges it over
one hundred doZlarsi Is that honest OF fair
We know some people assume that the coun-
ty is able TO pay, and therefore ought to be
made to pay large prices for printing; and the
editor of the Democrat acts upon that princi-
pie. a
But the editor Of the Democrat, in order to
screen himself from the Just odium of '6lching'
from the county. keeps continually harping
upon others, who received stipulated COM
pensation for performing certain services.
Hear him: a
"Now we have published the Democrat
more than Eve years. The printing has con-
amounted to little more than $3.50
per year according to the showing of the
Freeman-a trihe larger sum than the editor
received per month as an Office holder under
Fillmore, and in the aggregate once and ahalf
as much as he got for four or FIVE months la
bor"
As Mr.. Orton is much troubled about our
holding Office under Mr.. Fillmore, we will
state what our compensation amounted TO-
We were employed ourself nearly five months
in performing the duties of our Office. We
also employed clerks to the amount of near
two month more. Our compensation amount
ed to about FIVE hundred and sixty dollars. AT
ter paying all necessary expenses. we had
about sixty dollars month left for our labor,
a very snug little sum we admit, but not half
so much as our neighbor would have his rea-
ders believe Besides we have not yet receiv-
ed but half of our money.
But letus see how the labor of the Demo-
crat for the county, will compare with our own
for the Government. He claims that we re-
received nearly as much per month for our
work, as he did per year for doing the county
printing. Let our readers note the following
fact:
All the printing that sandusky county has
had done since Mr. Orson took charge of the
Democrat We could. with the aid of boy,
have done within three months, and given le-
gality to all the advertisements: so it will be
seen that Mr.. Orton has actually been receiV-
ing from the county over four hundred dollars
per month for actual labor rendered We
propose to do the printing for two hundred
dollars month, or for just one half what has
been paid the Democrat
We know nothing about what has been paid
for printing in other counties, nor do we care.
1t is enough for US to know that this county
pays double the amount for printing, that Ell
.her the Democrat or ourself would think of
charging any one else for the same work. We
know, too. that part ofthe county printing has
not been done in accordance with the law.
The law requires that advertisements should
be set up in solid and compact manner.
The list of receipts and expenditures for this
rear occupied nearly two columns in the Dem
ocrat; it would have occupied but little over
,te in the Freeman, and would have thus sa-
red the county some ten or fifteen dollars.
It's time the citizens of Sandusky county
put stop to this extravaganza. We have no
loub. that the election of Wings to Office,
would save the county snug little sum of
money in the course of a few years.
Eg In conclusion, will it not be well for