Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-05-23
DOG IN THE siAScER.


question--when the proposition was
being pushed by Col. Pinglory and
others for the purchase of the Masonic
building. Last week it was out of hui.
NOR again, over the order Of tie court
in regard to the publication of the
Financial Statement. We are not in
the habit ofnoticing in anyway the do
ings and sayings Of the Journal, as We
concede alarge latitude to comic jour-
nalism, and we all know how impossi-
bic it is for lis editor to keep from
dropping into wit even when writing
on the most weighty topics. The COM
ic is SO apt to end in the vulgar and
coarse that we have been content to
allow our neighbor to fully occupy and
monopollze that field, but just this
once we will notice its reflections on
the court by giving the voters OF the
county, of both parties, a plain little
statement of the causes which led the
court to make the order mentioned.
Last year, our county court, conclud-
ling that the financial exhibit of the
county would be matter of interest
| to everybody, decided to offer a fair
and reasonable sum for its publication
| in the three weekly papers of the coun-
ty, letting each Office, as they might
arrange, do certain portion of the
labor, and to divide the amount equal
ly between the three Simply because
the GRAPHIC, paper which had and
now has larger circulation in the
county than either of the others, was
recognized and included in the offer,
the Democrat and Journal, as has been
their habit for the past four years,
s'pooled their issues" and conte nptu-
ously refused 10 have anything to do
with the matter. The court was in
other words, ,snubbed, and thus it came
about that those subscribers of the so.
called official organ of the county, who
had been inveigled into taking paper
they did not want, to get official news
concerning the county, were compelled
to come to the GRAPHIC to get it, at
last. The GRAPHIC did the whole
work, and took the one.third share
without a murmuE. We presume the
!, court this year did not choose to take
the risk of another snubbing and recog.
nized the justice Of giving the work
and the pay to the paper that did no,
! possess such "top-loftical' ideas, and
was wiling to live and let live. Thi:
is not the first time our neighbor has
mutillated his own rose to spite hi:
face, but we notice this year that can
j. dldates are charged for their announce
). ments, in full /; the benevolent spirl
e which was so much boasted over two
e years ago having gone glimmerine
: with other lodges of a like nature
/. The talk of the Journal about its In
d tense desire to publish the county
It financial statement grads, possesses /:
l. notable lack of thickness in view o
n the fact that it refused its readers I;
it view of that interesting document il
C its columns last year, even for twenty
r, dollars in good hard money.
II We do not understand the county tc
S be either a pauper or mendican
that it should ask or receive valuable
service without giving fair and rea
: sonable compensation. Neither d.
a we think the county judges under an,
+ obligation to go down on their knee:
), to beg permission to have necessar,
4 work done in the f.organ" after tina
y organ and its echo had so con
temptuously refused 1t. The GRAPHIC
asks no favors further than fair, squar,
= chance in business way. 1t is no
4 anybody's organ, and expects to pub
;, lish a Il matters of interest and value t,
its readers whether that matter ap
pears elsewhere or not. The who'll
y official patronage OF Adalr county /
" not of enough value to real live news
paper to justify petty "squabble'
!. over it, or the sacrifice of one iota c
) independence. We advise our frien'
over the way to put some practical AM
sensible business man in charge, AM
to devote his own time to the elucida
ton of"Anna Dickinson" squibs an,
= witty sayings about the Edna girl
: feet, or if his ambition scars higher, t