The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-02
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treasurer when presented, ana Ihere
would not have been any interest to pay
on them.-Ledger July Is, 1878.
We learn from the county treasurer and
county clerk, that the reason why ''there
is something over 900 in county orders
and not paid for want OF
funds, p is that the Neosho Rapids bridge
gave way after the tax levy for 1877 had
been fixed, and the Board Of Co. Commits
sioners have had to issue 81 800 scrip tor
repairing said bridge. This unexpected
and unprovided for issue OF $500 of
scrip Is what has for short time cleaned
out the treasury, and the wonder is not
that the scrip is $1,000 in excess Of the
cash on hand, but that 1t is not nearly
b, 600 in excess. Yet in the face OF these
we'll known facts the heightened editor Of
the Ledger deliberately eonceals the real
reason OF the excess OF scrip, and assigns
= false reason to crafty his prejudice
against the commissioners. This is not
conduct on the part OF a
which processes to be actua-
ted by disinterested and public spirited
and such mIsstatements are not
likely to secure the coveted county adver-
Using that the Ledger is so eager to
obtain.
The Ledger also deliberately misstates
the facts when 1t says that the loss to the
county treasury by not accepting its bids
for county advertising at less than legal
rates is $1,000. Those bids are on record,
and they distinctly contradict the Ledg-
er's frequent assertions that delinquent
tax lists and similar lists are paid for by
the county treasury. The first bid was
made in pursuance OF an arrangement to
divide the advertising between the News
and Ledger, paying each one-half rates
making full rates to both, and of course
not lesseniAg the expense to the county,
Here Is that bid:
"EMPoRIA, Kas Feb. 6, 1875.
To THE COUNTY COMMIssI ONERs:
You have not asked Il bid on adVertis-
Ing for the county, but 1 beg leave to sub
init that will agree to do all advertising
for the county Jointly with the News
that is, the News to do ali and Ledger all,
copy to be furnished to each-at one half
the legal or usual rate. Res. Sub,
IL. W. MCCUNE."
This, as we explained above, was on the
that each paper should have
half rates, and both full rates-an ar
rangamsnt which the Ledger says "was
entirely satisfactory to us and the peO-
ple." Had that arrangement been kept up,
full rates would have been paid just as
they have been, but we should never have
heard word from the Ledger about the
expense OF county advertising.
The commissioners having concluded
that there was no necessity OF advertising,
In order to reach the people, in any other
paper than the News, the Ledger cOnclud-
ed to reach for the county advertising at
40 per cent. for the smaller part, and 100
per cent for the largest part of 1t, with
the addition al benefit OF being the eXclu-
sive source through which the people
could learn about county matters. This
was u very disinterested and public spir-
tied bid, made really for the benefit of
the county treasury and the pockets
of tax payers who desired to save two
cents q year each in taxes, and pay two
dollars q year to take paper they did
not want. Here is the ''bId'' which had
not been asked for, and very properly re-
ceiVed no attention;
EMRORIA, mas, ApTlI %, 1910.
To THE BOARD OF co. COMMISSIONERS
propose to do all the printing for Ly-
on county for one year from date OF ac
ceptance hereof at the following rates:
In newspaper, all printing which may
be done at the expense of the county, 40
per cent. OF the rates now allowed by law
for public printing, to wit: For first in
sertlon, 40 cents per square, (of 300 ems
nonuareiI type); for each additional in
sertion 20 cents per square. Provided,
That such printing be given exclusively
to the Emporla Ledger for year, and
that I shall publish and TeceiUe legal rates
in full for the delinquent tar list and all
such advertising as Is required to be done
at the expense of the property holders or
property involved in the publication.
Respectfully Submitted,
ii. w. MCCUNE,
Prop. EmpOria Ledger.
1t will be in order now for the Ledger
to repeat its assertions of last fall that de
lInquent tax lists are paid for by the
county treasury.
AS this bid did not scoop THE NEWS
out of the county advertising, the Ledger
made another, after awhile, which
strange to say, has not produced any per-
ceptibIe effect on those hard headed COM
mIssionsrs. This time 1t really threw it.
self on low prices, but it still had sense
enough left to discriminate between ad-
vertisIng that is and is not paid for by the
county treasury:
0EMPoRIA, Kas., March 10, 1873.
will publish the delinquent tGT list =,
and all matters which are required by
law to be published in a newspaper of
general circulation in the county, at the
e1peRse of the OtcTers of the property adj
uas at rates nv
law for such advertising; and ali adver-
Using that may be required to be done
at the expense Of the county treasury, l
will do at ten per cent. of the rates allow
q. W. McCUNE.
These bids make it plain that the editor
Of the Ledger is after all q merely human
being. What he wants is county adver-
Using at the highest rates he can possibly
get That's what the Ledger is after, and
the only difference between THE NEWS
and the Ledger on this important financial
issue, is that the News has got the coun-
ty advertising and the Ledger has not,
and hence these brIny tears. Hence this
startling statement that 81 600 would al
ready be saved to the county treasury had
these bids been accepted. Well now, of
course, IL the first bid had been accepted,
the second one would not have been made,
and hence the calculation of saving should
be made on the first bid that was q bid
April g, 1876. We find that the total ex-
pense Incurred from that date to this, fer
advertising paid for by the county treas
ury, 70 be $495.3I. Forty per cent. Of that
would be 1888, or $297.29 ''saved," in
stead OF $1,000, as the Ledger asserts.
And for this saving, which would be
about two cents per year to the average tax
payer, the Ledger was to be the exclusive
paper which did the advertising, and eV-
cry tax payer who wanted to know about
county expenses would have to pay two
dollars . year to take the Ledger. The
tax payers may be grooming under the
expense Of two cents each for the difference
in rates between the Ledger's bid and the
legal rates paid TIE NEWS, but they
didn't vote that way last fall. They are
not fond Of being humbugged, and when
the facts are presented they must con-
clude that the most transparent and
cheeky humbug ever attempted on them
is the Ledger's bid TO gObble the county
advertising.
r. II. Bachelor, Esq. lis announced in
this paper as a candidate for clerk 0f the
District Court. Those who know his
qualifications and habits need no recon-