The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-06-06
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In yesterdays Enquirer lam charged with
falsifying the proceedings of the City Coun
Gil to do that paper an injury. I certainly
never had the least desire to injure the puny
thing, and I am sure nothing that I have
ever inserted in the Council proceedings, has
tendency that way. As regards the cor
rectness of the Council proceedings as pub
lished in the Journal it is sufficient to state
that the Enquirer almost invariably copies
! them, Uerbatim, yet alaoays refuses TO gi0e
the proper credit. The very paper Tues
days. in which am charged with falsifying
the record, contains the proceedings of the
/ Council as published in the Journal of Mon
day, acithout any change, except in the para
graph complained Of
In that paragraph no allusion was made
10 any bill presented by the present editors
of the Enquirer. Our statement was, sim
ply, that report was made by Councilman
! 1--WE should have said Constable) Sullivan, to
the e feet that the bill of the Enquirer was
too much, according to the City's contract
with the proprisiors of that paper
What proprietors The proprietors at
the time the contract was made p
! No other sensible construction can be
given our Ian nguage. The report states
that at f4U rates the advertisements came to
a little more than charged in the bill. But
under the contract the Enquirer was to
charge twenty-five per cent. less than full
rates hence, the bill was cut down in ac-
cordance with the report of Mr.. Sullivan
and the records show that instead of being
! allowed $3O.98, the amount of the original
bill, the Council issued an order for S26.62,
the amount due that Office according to Mr.
! Sulivan's report. So much for that. All
have to say is, let those be branded liars
who are proven such. ~
a word, as to ny "friendly interest in
my neighbors, business"
In the Spring of SO bids were handed in
to the City Council by the Journal and En-
q1irer for doing the advertising of the city
during the year. The Enquirer proposed to
do the work for 25 per cent, and the Jour
nal for Is per cent, less than published
rates, those rates being the same in both
papers The contract was awarded the En-
quirer. During the course of the year GER
tain advertisements which the Council de-
sired should have large circulation were
| directed to be inserted in the Journal for
which they paid that paper full published
rates paid little or no attention to the
matter until near the close of the year,
when, at a meeting of the Council, bills
were presented from both the Journal and
| Enquirer offices, certain-items being the
same in both bills in every respect except as
to price. For instance, the Enquirer charg-
ed (net) for advertising certain ordinance,
$II So The Journal charged for the same
ordinance at f1U rates ST 25. For another
ordinance the Enquirer charged So 3d.
| The Journals bill for that ordinance was
$5 90.
Both bills were allowed. After the
Council adjourned, I called the attention of
the Mayor to the difference in the bills for
the same items, and suggested that it was
rather hard the Journal should lose the city
printing on the ground of economy, when
the Enquirer was really getting more for
the same work-which it contracted to do
for 25 per cent. less than full rates-than the
Journal charged at full prices. l heard
nothing more concerning the matter until it
came up again in the Council on Saturday
night last I was not aware when the re-
port was made that it had ref7->ee to the
same bill. f-.- ~
Whenever mechanic is underbld for a
certain job of work, it is his business to
see that the work is done according to con-
tract. If he does not do this what chance
will be stand to ever get job, if his neigh
Dor can take it from him by underbidding
him, and afterwards receive more than be
proposed to charge.
l, have never intimated, that desired to
make any personal assaults upon either of
the editors of the Enquirer. do not de-
sire TO do so. l am not one of those who
depend OH building up my own business by !
tearing down that of my neighbors. If
| cannot succeed by my own efforts, de-
serve to fail 1 will further add that hav-
ing made the explanation above I am will !
ing to abide the judgment of the commu-
nifty in which l live, as to my veracity |
or my conduct in other particulars
F. NJ. THAYER.
H@a@"The taste and character of Nation, |