Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-05-09
Editor Boyds Offer to Do the Coun-
tv Printing Free.

Editor BOyds Offer to Do the COun- /
tv Printing Free.
The Freeman of last week gave
evidence that the editor of that paper
is weakening on his proposition here
tofore made to do all the county
printing for nothing and furnish every
person who pays taxes on Phillips
county property. free. He now says
he meant only the taxpayers who
actually reside in this county, and
only four copies of the Freeman to
each taxpayer. If Boyd is the blach
guard, and the INSCRIPTIONS shyster
and political demagogue and the de-
famer and slanderer of good people
as he is so often said to be by those
who know him best, he is also as sly
as a fox. He is now trying to sneak
away from his original proposition
which was never made in good faith
but to create some political thunder
with the Farmers Alliance.
Fairly construed, his proposition
was to do all the county printing for
nothing, that means minuets of the
proceedings of the Commissioners,
the road notices, which must have two
insertions each, Treasurer's quarterly
report, election proclamations, &C., &c.
To furnish taxpayers with a paper
containing all the county printing
would require sixteen copies to each
taxpayer Now the cost of a paper
like the HERALD is about two cents
per copy. That would be a cost to
the publisher of 30 cents per year for
each Taxpayer. There are 1000 tax
payers in the county. Sixteen copies
to 1000 persons would amount to the
snug sum of $1,26O The extra ex
pense of printing and distributing
such large edition (which would
require a steam power press would
amount to at least $500 90 more, max
ing a total cost of about 81, $4,000 {
year. That is a pretty snug sum t.
lose for the glory of doing all thu
county printing free and giving away
the paper containing such county
printing. If the work is to be let t
MIR. Boyd we suggest that he be re
quired to furnish a good and suficien
bond to properly perform the service
and that in order to ensure efficien
service he be required to establish hi
office at the county seat
But Mr.. Boyd will not give such
bond; he is too sly fox for that. L
fact he declared that he did not ez
pect to do the work but did in effec
declare that he would make the Phil
ipsburg papers perform the servic
for nothing. Boyd's only purpose /
agitating this matter is to pose befor
the Alliance as a reformer, and t
mislead and befog those who do Nc
look into the merits of the subject III
der consideration. AS a political leat
er Mr.. Boyd has pretty thorough
established the reputation of bein
witty and cunning but very visional
and wholly unreliable and unscrup7
lous. As a journalist he is discount
Gus and personally abusive, and seen
wholly unable to reason with a CO.
temporary on a subject. but invariab
answers argument by the use of Vi
epithets, and low slang. As an g
Union soldier he seems to be dIspise
H j. Shaver, an old soldier, Ia
week in a column article published
the Logan Republican says:
OF all men living. Boyd is the Ia
man who should complain Ot III trea
ment from the members of his 20.
when it is we'll known that the histO
81 BOyd's connection With the q.
R, s. full to overlooking with NAL
EGl7s misrepresentation; with vlrule
vitWpaERtioR and unstinted abu
hesPed upon ~ bead Of every mel
Der of hlF pest. Or .a4g other post
Phillips coRPtEs that ep.aF dared
differ with him, Gr VsBa whom be eF
got into controversy.