Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1885-03-06
BowEt & KINGsBURY. propts.

month, IS cent?: per year, 5000.
Office on hlrd Street, Press and Dakotaisn
block.
BOWEN & KINGsBURY, Prop's.
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One of theTelics which Governor Ord
way bequeathed to Yankton was the en-.
terprising publisher of the Dakota Out
look and his patent newspaper. In the
last issue Of tie paper the editor under
takes to defe4d himself for making e1.
orbitapt charges for publishing pam
phlet for the Dakota insane hospital, by
throwing mudat the Press and Dako-
taian-in other words he seeks to exten.
uate his own ofense by charging a like
offense upon another.
As rule th1 Press and Dakotaian
gives little attention to matters of this
character. Tho Dakota Outlook or any
other printing establishment is at liberty
to charge and receive it's own prices for
work performed, and We have no disro.
sltion to complain. We are perfectly
willing to take bur chances with the rest
of the world and understand very we'll
that eternal vigilance is the price lof
prosperity. But in this matter concern
ing the Ontlookt exorbitant charge for
printing the pamphlet in question, that
institution was the aggressor. 1t
based its prices for that work
upon the presumed price charged
by the Preess and Dakotaian and
received its pay 5this fact coming to our
knowledge we had right to refute it,
and We did so.. Instead of estimating
the cost of the work in business way,
as the Press and SDakotaian would do,
the publisher of the Outlook, with a
childlike faith in the correctness OF the
Press and Dakotaian fgures-assumes
their correctness aud makes up his bill
against the territory in this way:
.The Press and Dakotaian received
$4,000 for the pamphlet of 1882
the Outlook's job contained eight more
pages than that Of the Press and Dako-
taian and therefore is worth $1O2.0O:"
And the estimate thus arrived at was
charged and sworn to and paid. The
Press and Dakotaian being apprised Of
it, snd flattered by the confidence re,
posed in its estimates by Gov. Ordway's
representative andhelic in Yankton, tool
occasion to investigate its accounts il
order to satisfy itself that its exampl,
had been fairly dialt with, when th,
very important discovery was made
that the charge upon which
the Outlook had based its
estimate was for printing two pam
phlets-one for 1880 and one for 1882
either one costing fully as much as tn
work performed by the Outlook, ant
both furnished for the sum OF $4,000
This is the fact and the record will show
lit.
The Outlook has convicted itself anG
vindicated the Press and Dakotaian. L
has charged the Press and Dakotaia1
with receiving exorbitant prices for worl
and in the same breath has accepted
those prices for its own estimates an,
charged accordingly. This the edito
of the Outlook upblushinglyi confesses
One word more. The Press and Dako
talan is willing to stand by its record.
iumbled mass Of figures taken at trandon
from any reports explain nothing
The reiteration of old campaign yarn
amount to nothing-the assertion tina
the Outlook has furnished valuable in
formation concerning south Dakota an
Yankton amounts to nothing, as givin
that sheet any claim to the gratitude c
people who are cognizant of th
evils wroughti upon the territory an
injury intended to be inflicted upo,
this community blythe Outlook's patro
saint and sponsor.
The reading public may not be intel
ested in discussion CT this characte
and the Press and Dakotaian has no dir
position to prolong it. The only featur
of the affair OF public interest ie the ell
fort of certain gentlemen connected wit
the insane asylum board to pay tLei
political debts out of the peoples none
and at the same time countenancing
price outrageously exorbitant for th
work.