Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-01-04
He Saws 1t Is Simply a Lie!

to the County Commissioners to do
the printing required by them at half
the customary price, or half the prices
established by the publishers of the
State, provided the Commissioners
would not give any of it to the Herald,
The editor replies to this truthful
assertion in his characteristic courte-
Gus style, as follows:
s'The assertion that we proposed to
do the County Printing for half price,
provided the Commissioners would |
not give any of it to the Herald, IS |
SIMPLY A LIE
Our proposition was that they |
slould NOT pay the Herald q greater
price than we received for the same
work, because the Commissioners had
in several instances paid our neighbors
DOUBLE the price they paid us for
the same work %
Now, it is scarcely worth the edi
tors while to deny that he did make
that proposition, in writing, to tine
Commissioners, which written propo
sition was presented to them by tie
Auditor of the county, but which writ
ten proposition, by some mysterious
agency, has disappeared from the Office,
else it would appear in our columns
verbatim.
The proposition as written, was, as
we understand, to do all the printing
for the county at half the customary
price paid for such work, provided the
whole of the work was given to the
Register office, and that no greater
price should be paid for any of the
said work if it should be done at the
Herald Office. This is the substance
of the proposition, if not word for
word, as proposed by Gould His
professed reason for proposing to do
the work for half price was to make it
/. come cheaper to the tax payers, so in
fact that the county advertising &C.,
should cost the county only half price.
Here it will be seen that the object OF
the editor was to monopolize the whole
work by doing it at half price. But
suppose, Mr.. Gould, the Commission
ers should propose to publish in both
papers and pay each half price-that
would be equal to full price. Now,
how much would be saved in the cost
of printing. You must monopolize
the whole of the work at half price
that is just what your prol osition
amounts to. 1t don't mean econo-
my, it simply and plainly means, give
the pay for the work to W. c. Gould
, and nothing more. And we repeat
what everybody knows-that if the
+ county officers were all Democrats
Gould would be the last man this
q side of Kingdom come, to offer ta
do the county printing for half price
| The editor complains that the Com
missioners have, in several instances,
paid US double the price they paid him
for the same work. We suppose the
: editor has reference to the pay we
5 have received upon at least two occa
sions: These were the Treasurer
I notices of the assessments by til,
. County Board, of taxes. The Com
: missioners have no control over tn
r publication of these notices. Th
e County Treasurer is authorized to hav
l. these notices published, and is author
= lied to pay for their publication in bu
e one paper; and the advertising wa
: given to the Herald, for which W
t. charged the usual rates. But Gould
: without authority from the Treasures
(because he had no authority to do it
: copied these advertisements from th
:. Herald, and presented his bill at ha
our rates, and half his own publishe
! rates for advertising; and the bill
were allowed by the votes of two {
the County Commissioners. In al
! other case, we refer to the public'
:; ton, two or three years since, of tt
Auditors and Commissioners repo
of the financial condition of the coul
ty.) In this case the Auditor of Il
county was instructed to ascertai
he what we and what Gould wou
ur charge for publishing tho report
he our respective papers and for Il
lie purpose of ascertaining, the Audit
in called us both into his office, and '
n there mutually agreed that if we pu
N, lished it We would charge full or Gu
no tomary rates. This Gonldegrcrcf {
,er and we left the Office hut thinking tn
ur it would be published in but one p
he per, and that the one who would
ur it the cheapest would get the wo1
#. Gould went back sneakingly al
in meanly, and instructed the Audit
in to inform the judge of the comm'
he pleas court that he would do the q
lat vertising 25 per cent. cheaper tn
,se we had agreed to do it for in pr'
IN ence of the Auditor Fearing tt
nd the Auditor might forget to give t
in information to the Judge, he instru
WIN ed the late R. NJ. Briggs to ma
o7. the same proposition for him to t
an. Judge. After this we were inform
nd of these propositions, and the Au
tor was instructed to see us and
is certain whether we would not co
,se down to Gould's proposition, and
md told him we would not The co