Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-27
FAIR.

Times is sufficient punishment of
that paper, without any comment of
ours as follows:
For real hearty, unalloycd mean
ness and spite, the article in Saturday
evenings Daily COURIER about "Our
County Fair, and the Slanderers of
the Management" takes the Ruflian's
belt. The COURIER seems to take a
licndish delight in undertaking their
neighbors on printing jobs, and, when
they squcal, seem to enjoy kind of
ecstacy in kicking them into quictude.
The COURIER quotes from the Dem
ocrdt and Times articles, to show
hostility TO the society and its officers.
Now, the Democrat is amply able to
defend itself, and we shall not occu-
Ply time to apologize for, or mitigate
its oflensc. But the Times feels call
ed upon to reply to the ISLANDERS of
the COURIER, and purge itself from
its contemplate aspersions and un-
generous insinuations.
For Tie COURIER to try to prejudice
the minds of the people against the
Times, by attempting to show by
some of its indiscrect utterances,
while smarting under the Sights Of
some of the principal managers of the
Fair, is, TO say the least, unfair and
little.
If any one will take the pains to
examine the files of the Ottumrc
Times for the past two years, they
will find twice as much printed in it
in favor of the Fair and the society as
they can find in the COURIER; strong
er appeals and better reports. 1t is
our deliberate opinion that good
agricultural society and successful
annual fair is better evidence of the
prosperity of county than any other
indication possible. But if the soci-
ty is going to be managed in such a
way that it stirs up antagonisms from
the press, it will not get on quite as
. well as if they were willing to do the
square thing by all parties.
The Courier, among other misrep-
reservations, says that they got the
printing because they offered to dc
{ the work for less price than the Other
papers, or. in other words, underbid
the other printing establishments
Now, so far as the TINES is concerned
, this is n mistake. Mr.. Newell came
up to our Office, as he remarked, tc
get our prices" We gave them to
him, not dreaming that he was q
, committee to receive bids for the
, printing for the agricultural society
but it appears that that was the case
and under the guise of obtaining in.
formation whereby he might save the
society from imposition, he was put.
ting up a job on the other papers fol
. the benefit of bis own partisan sheet
, If Mr.. Newell had come out squarely
> and told us he was receiving bids fol
the printing for the society, the
chances are that the Courier would
have done the printing for consider.
able less than it did. 1t was our un.
derstanding at the time that the
society had repented of its parsimony
and was around hunting fair prices
and would divide the printing out
equally among the printing Offices
but it appears we were mistaken.
Last Saturday we were interviewed
, on the street by our friends Captain
Garfield and VIM. Pediick officers OF
the Wapcllo county agricultural so.
ciety, and during the interview they
expressed themselves as being some.
what scandalizcd in consequence OF
: the times Times dcnominating then
Nabobs of the Society, and as tcsti.
mony conclusive ''as proofs of holy
writ that this was gratuitous de-
famation of themselves and associates
they called our attention to the coarse
outer habiliments and homely under
wear that enyelopcd their manly
forms. III it will be any satisfaction
to these two friends of ours, we heart.
lily apologize, and say our remarks
were only intended to apply to those
officials of the society who "put on
airs" and hunt around for CHEAP
work regardless of the good or i'll
will of their neighbors. We will also
pledge ourselves to do all we can in
our humble way for the success OF
our annual exhibition, as we believe
a county without good agricultural
fair might just as well quit being a
county"
The intelligent reader will not fail
to notice that the Times takes pepper
in the nose simply because of our
publication of its article dcnouncing
the farmers of Wapcllo county as Ma
hobs &c.
lie will farther observe that the
Times admits its "indiscrcct utteran-
secs while il was smarting under the
"slight of the managers &C."
He will farther notice that it charg-
cs Mr.. Newell with obtaining his
prices of that paper in sort of SUR
reptitious way, without the editor of
the Times knowing anything about
Mr. NcWells connection with the So
cicty, or intention of procuring pri-
ces for the society. AT lease this is
the inference of the article. Mr..
Newell remains to be heard on this
question, but in the mean time we
should like the editor of the Times to
inform the public what he thought
Mr.. Newell wanted prices for print
ing agricultural bills and premium
lists anyway? Hadn't the ed
itor of the Times been Secre-
tary of the Society, and hadn't
he co-operated with Mr. Newell in
matters connected with the Society
before, and, in a word, didn't he know
that Mr.. Newell was an officer and an
active member of the Society, and
that he went to the Times Office in
that capacity at that time TO get its
lowest price for job printing? This
might be a pertinent inquiry if the
Times, in the same paragraph, didn't
furnish a satisfactory answer, and a
full and complete refutation of its
own charge when it says at was our
T" understanding that the Society
(through its representative, Mr.. New
"clD had repented of its parsimony,
"and was around hunting for fair
"prices, and would divide the print
" ing out equally among the printing
/" Offices, but we We're mistaken"
Will the reader compare the tail
and of Tho Ii