Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-05-26
Some Facts About ssEhe Basis we
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! The Free Press, last week. says that it
WAS authorized by Trustee McKervey.
Chairman of the Printing committee, to
state lhat'it way-the editor of the TRI-
BUNE, and not the Free Press, who tried
TO mislead him. The reply which we
shall make to this charge will be to pre-
sent TO Inc public some facts and fig
lures aid ir Trustee McKervey can then
lcNplaiil 10 The public wherein the TR1-
BUNE attempted TO mislead him, he will
stand higher before the community than
lie does al present.
{. III making an estimate Of the amount
OF work 10 be done, with Mr.. McKervey
VIC estimated the ordinances at 4 foliOs
each. Mr.. McKeryey looked over the
ordinances and expressed himself salts
fed with the estimate. Although there
were not that number OF ordinances in
force ut the the time-nOr was there any
probability OF there being that many
adopted during the present year-we
consented to estimate the number at %.
The figures upon which 1.-THE basis we
took Mrs made, We're as follows, rs given
by the Free Press:
Publishing - ordinances, averaging
sir folios:
TEIDIrHE o.
tIr,. Prs r;,t.., So 20
arnr s.s. in fay roc -
Now tor the facts The ordinances
have been printed. there are 10 of them.
There may be Two or three more adopted
duriiig the year, but they will be short.
decrease the Average. There are 20
foloS. or exactly 1919 folios to an or
dnlapt,-, or a tliile les. than.ourestimate
to Mr. .McKervey. We will give Mr..
Mckeryey the benefit of all doubt us to
number and fractions and figure the
quantity according to the facts, and we
have: &c 0U
Publishing 81 ordinances, averaging 4
foliOs:
TRIBUSE rates ...... $50 20
Free Press rat 81 80
Difference in favor of the Free Press
SIS 80, instead of SIS 30, according to
..the b1sis we took" .or 50 40 in favor of
the TRIBUNE over the basis or on this
one stem alone, lacking only p cents of
the whole difference claimed by Mr.. Me-
Kervey. Now as we used up So 6S more
than the difference last week, OH another
single item, it would seem to us that the
basis is rather too weak for Mr.. McKel-
vcy to stand upon. The difference on
the two items thus far explained now
shows the TRIBUNE bid So 06 ahead, and
the difference will grow greater as the
year advances. N -
Me- would now like,to, have Mr.. Nc
Keryey explains howit happened that in
'.the basis we took the Quantities esti-
mated upon We're much higher than the
actual amount, when the prices were in
fayor oftthe Free Press, and much lower
when they were in favor of the TRIBUNE.
We5do lios like to impugll Mr.. Mcker-
W. tuDtlttc, VI tfiOSS VI lllc &C ltSS.
in giving him the figures. but ''facts are
stubborn things The facts show that
Ethe.report Of the Finance committee, of
which Mr.. MeKervey was a member, was
Icofrect.s Ii Mr.. McKervey cannot ex-
plain satisfactorily why he changed his
mind. aud made different report, he CAN
not complain if he loses the confidence OF
the public. The estimates which the
TRIBUNE gave him are shown to be very
near the facts. Then, granting Mr.. Nc
keryey's trouble, who mislead him? II
he had taken pains to examine the facts,
instead of putting implicit faith in the
representations of the Free Press, lie
would have been in a better position to-
day.
The schooner Minnie Slanson arrived
last Monday from Chicago, partly laden
with grain, &C., for Macarthur, Smith &
Co, and took on a cargo OF lumber from