The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-12-21
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Ike City Advertising.

BY order Of Council proposals. for do
Ing the advertising Of the city were in
ylted and bids were put in. The trick.
ster Of the IHTELLIGEHCER thought to
play smart by Withholding his bid, never
dreaming that contract would be award.
ed unless he, the great Podsnap, was con-
suited. And in pursuit Of this plan an
effort was made in the committee whose
duty i was 10 open the proposals, to re.
ject all bids, "beCause the INTELLI0ENCER
had no proposal in" This little trick,
SO characteristic Of the management Of
that establishment, waa seen through, and,
belt said to the honor OF the gentlemen
composing the committee, unanimously
rejected and the contract awarded in &C.
cordance with the order Of Council.-l
Reqiste- Of yesterday.
The above article is intended 10 convey
the idea that the management" Of the
ISTELLIoENCER attempted 10 tamper with
the committee that had in charge the
opening and awarding Of bids for doing
the city advertising. The article admits
ot no other construction. We denounce
it as utterly false. There is not word
OF truth in il 80 far as it refers 10 this
paper. We put in no bid for the city
advertising, nor had We at any time be-
fore or after bids were put in by other
parties, nor at any other time, single
word with any member ot the committee
on the subject. The truth or falsehood
OF what we cay can'easily be shown by
the committee, and we call upon the
Wheeling Register to make good its accu.
sation against US or stand convicted Of a
willtul falsehood.
The city advertising is small matter,
but the Register has by characteristic mis-.
representation sought to make a good |
deal out Of it, In order to put ia conduct
inthe matter in the proper light before
the community, we herewith reproduce
its remarks two years ago, at the time
bids were solicited for publishing the
citys annual statement. We quote from
its issue ot January 18th, 1876:
"In another column our readers may
find accurately printed the 10th annual
statement Of the receipts and expendi-
lures Of the city. At its meeting night
before last the Council saw ft to have the
report published in but one paper, and
that one to be the paper which would
publish it the cheapest. No! desiring 10
inuTe our business, nor that Of our neigh.
bors, by needless competition, and yet recog-
nIzlng that the statement contains Ger.
tain quantity OF information that our
readers desire TO see and know, we pub.
lish it without cost to the city, thus con.
tributing our mite toward diminishing
the debt Of the city which by the way
seems to be getting the upper hand Of
Council. II our contemporaries can do
more for the city in making their bids
they may do it in welcome"
This was the language Of the Register
two years ago. Now contrast il with the
game pursued this year. 1t put in bid
below the Standard, lis only competitor,
and secured perhaps hundred dollars
worth OF advertising. This it had right
to do, and we certainly would never have
offered any objection to it, as We did not
before in the case Of the Standard, but for
the insertion in its columns Of the follow.
ing notice in regard TO the matter:
To Cry READERs.-The Regider has
been selected by the City Council to do
the public advertising for the coming
year. Advertisements will appear officially
In no other paper.
This notice was iput in to deceive the
public by creating false impression in
regard to the city advertising. The idea
was to influence patronage by suggesting
and cultivating an Impression that that
paper had been "selected" on its merits
"a valuable medium for dispensing Of
fetal information 10 the people
whereas, as we have already ex.
planned, the Register was "selected"
to do the city advertising on the same
principle that Jimmy Haley was selected
to clean the streets Of the city, viz: be-
cause he was willing 10 clean them for
less money than any body else. In this
reference to the streets we mean no dis
respect to Jimmy, for his work ia clean
as snow as compared with the dirty work
sought to be done by the Wheeling
RegiGter towards It's HeIghbors.