Daily Republican., 1881-09-19
SEPTEMBER 10. 1881.
|, At,omut to Bribs an official

So some person upon the editorial
staff of the REPUBLICAN has been us
covered in an attempt to prloe 'he
Clerk of the City Council by ofieriAs
him ten per cent for all advertisements
sent to that paper Wonderful dlscov-
arv, terrible crime That paper, or
rather that editor that has been so oola
As to intimate that change in the Cl'y
government would be beneficial, on ac-
count of the excessive habits OF lntoN-
cation into which a number OF the CITY
officials have fallen, in retallatlon
is denounced as every thing that Is
hcggish, low, contemplate and VILE
by the Every Evening, because having
An eye to business and working for the
interests of the paper upon which he
was engaged, offered e. B. Frazer, Clerk
OF the City Council, a commission OF slo
for every 500 worth of advertisements
that he might favor that paper with.
We must confess that we never knew
before that it was henious crime to
offer a commission to persons furnish
ing advertisements for newspaper
and especially crime so disgusting
that the greatest editor in the State, and
editor of high toned ,dignitied journal,
should step down from his dignitie|l,
moral perch and compare the man who
did so with the high sounding appella-
ton of hog. There is dignity and
righteousness welling up in its purity
and gushing in profusion from the pure,
incorruptible and virtuous heart of the
Every Evening.
In regard to the charge of all attempt
made to bribe Mr.. Frazer, as it is called,
there Is nothing to conceal. The thing
was not done in corner as if 1t was a
crime, neither was 1t done before the
public with a flourish Of trumpets; FOR
business men do not make contracts in
that way. Quite number of persons
furnish advertisements for the RErUB-
LICAN for which they are paid COM
mission and the editors of the REPUB-
.LICAN bad and have still a perfect
right withouy being charged with an
attempt to bribs, to offer commission
TO whoever they saw proper that fur
nished them advertisements. The fact
that a man is either State, County or
CITY official need not so far as we can
see be excluded from the benefits OF
such commission. Of course in the dis
tribution of these favGrs, editors VeneG'
Ally confer them Upon persons who have
advertisements to give out for puohsa
ton, and as long as Squire Frazer ha'
the control of a large amount Of adver
tisoments to publish, it was Legitimate
for the REPUBLICAN or any other pape
to get those advertisements on any sat
isfactory terms that could be made, ant
if they offered Squire Frazer, who ha'
advertising to furnish, ten per cent 10
all furnished, the same as they pai'
other employed agents, they hal per
feet right to do 80, and in doing so the
are guilty of no crime nor of an attemp
to commit crime.
We will frankly state that Squlr
Frazer did not send us any advertise
ments, and so far as the REpUBLIcA
is concerned, we never paid him An
commissions, and we will state turth
that we never paid him any commi
sions before that. About that time Il
Printing committee which was inin
cal to the REPUBLICAN, directed t
printing to be published in the Gazett
and the pure blooded virtuous nond
script called the Every Evening.
Up to this time the latter paper hi
denounced Squire Frazer as everythi1
that was base and vile in morals,
politics and i'll his official actions VIII
magistrate, and the Squire refused
give it any advertisements. Had
been an editor and offered ten per Gel
for advertisements he could not ha
been more bitterly denounced. Ho
ever the printing committee disregal
ing the feelings of the Clerk OF the VI
Council, ordered him to give what c1
advertisements he had to the Eve
Evening, and of course being the cr'
ture of the City Council he had to co
ply with the new order Of things. /
what change came over the spirits
the immaculate editor of the Eve
Evening. Squire Frazer all at o1
became a gentleman. The moral spol
ct that paper hastily wiped out ev
sin with which the Squire had b.
charged, and he was washed in
fountain of Every Evening virtue
placed before the public whittier Il
snow. Was there ever such chani
Who was bribed there, and VINO
the briber We are quite sure
Squire Frazer asked no favors, ant
furnishing the Every Evening with
city advertisements he was only ca
ing out the instructions Of the prin
committee which he dared not disc
But the organ of high Loneliness
untinged morality saw proper
change front. The man stepped in
n.,ss before became all at once an al
The obsequious knee was bo
apologies made, whitewash used pl
fully. What made the change? A Ii,
CITY PRINTING Can this be truth
denied? 1t turned black into W
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