, 1875-05-06
NEWSPAPER SUrroRT.--There are five
eekk newspapers published IN Oiym.

NEWSPAPER SUPpoRT.--TheIe are five
eekly newspapers published in Qlym-
ia. The Standard, the oldest and most
prosperous of the five, estimates the en-
tife amount of local advertising divided
among them at less than 5000 per an
NUM- $12O piece; and says: At least
three-f -fourths of the free church and
charity advertising found in our columns
is placed there by business men whose
names have never appeared in our ad-
rertising columns. The aggregate
eirculatation of the five papers in the
town does not exceed 200, at 5000. The
local job work does not net over $500.
exclusive of the cost of stock. Thus it
will be seen that the five newspaper
establishments derive but $4,000 from
the citizens of the town, for the support
of FIVE families, aggregaling 50 individ-
uals : but a little over one dollar a
week each-not one-tourth the amount
required for their support. To barely
subsist, therefore. these printers and
publishers must contribute three times
as much to the support of the town as
they receive from it. How could Olym-
pia sustain itself without the printers?
HAVE WE BRENTs AMONG Us?-We
copy the following from our city CO.
emporary of Saturday last:
There is an understanding between
JEage Lewis and Wipgard that, if the
former will remove L. B. Andrews and
appoint the latter's tillieum here to the
Clerkship of this District, he will keep
Lewis particular friend in Office there.
''These Clerkships, under recent Con-
gressicnal amendments, will hereafter
be the most lucrative and important
appointments to be made in the Terri
tory, and their disposition, aside from
any such traficking, will have to be
niade with due regard to the fitness and
competency of the appointees, and to
political consistency on the part of those
Judges. or their official sealps will ere
long be dangling in our Supreme Court
room among those of the many other
small men who have heretofore constl-
tuted our Judiciary
Our neighbor is scrupulously neutral
upon political issues. but only radically
partisan where personal interests are
involved. The motive that actuated this
assault upon the Judiciary of Washing
ton Territory in general, and two OF the
three sitting Judges in particular, ii is
not necessary to refer to. We only no.
lice it for the purpose of saying that the
premises are without the least shadow
Of foundation in truth, to our certain
knowledge. No such bargain or " tiaf-
licking" in judicial appointments as
mat SO positively stated, we were in
position to know, was ever entered into,
expressly or impliedly, between Judges
Lewis and Wingard. We are not in
formed that any appointment for Clerk
n this District has yet been determined
upon, but feel assured that Judge
Lewis is not the man to be bull
lied or badgered into an appolnt-
snent not approved by his judgment.
Both he and Judge Wingard have here
tofore been assailed by clique combina-
tions assuming to represent the Repub,
lican party of the Territory, and both
have been triumphantly vindicated by
the endorsement of the Administration,
large majority of the bar of both
political parties and by popular seLti-
ment. They are neither of them men
who scare worth cent.