Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-05-02
The County Printing Matter. Hdi-
tor BoYd,s scheme.

vides that the County printing shall
be let to the lowest bidder, and the
editor to whom it Is awarded shall
furnish his paper free to every tax
payer in the county. We knew some /
time ago that this was a scheme of |
Mr.. Boyd's of the Logan Freeman,
who is manipulating things so that
by some hook or crook he cannot !
only cripple the county-seat papers,
but get the Freeman endorsed as the |
organ Of the Alliance. We knew |
that sooner or later the fact would |
come out that Mr.. Boyd was the |
cause Of this new movement. which |
either proposes to boost the freeman /
up, or if that cannot be done, to use
the Alliance if possible in breaking
the Phillipsburg papers down. Well
/ Mr.. Boyd himself in his Freeman of
April "a, lays bare his real design,
and furnishes the proof that he is the
real prompter of the Alliance resolu-
ton. He says:
"We have twice made a proposition
to do the work for nothing and furn-
ish a copy of the Freeman free. IN
der the proposition every voter would
get the paper free containing the pro-
ceedings. If 500 or 1000 new sub
scribers take the FREEMAN is it any
business of the Herald or any one
else. But says one man it is a one
horse paper published in one corner
of the county. All right gentlemen
if a one horse paper keeps them stirr-
ed up so at the county seat, if every
man who ought to take the FREEMAN
IN the county did take it, it would be
a four hOrse>paper and some horses
to spare. Don't worry gentlemen, we
won't get the county printing, but
when the 6. o. p. papers find that the
people are in earnest they Will do it
fOl nothing themselves. All we ask
is a credit mark for saving 5000 or
$500 a year in taxes. But we repeat
our offer of one two and three years.
We will do it for nothing and put a
copy containing the comm s3iont rs,
proceedings in the hands of every
: voter free. Do you hear"
So that is the scheme is it? Mr..
. Boyd don't expect to get the printing
to do, for he knows that it would be
ImprachcabIe eighteen miles from
the county seat but because he can
not get it he proposes that he will so
play on the prejudices of the Alliance
and so appeal to the natural selfish
ness in men, that the county seat pap
ers must do a great deal of labor for
nothing, and give away thousands OF
their papers. That is certainly a
very shrewd scheme but not a very
p honest one. Surely the honorable,
- honest members of the Farmers Al
! lance who try to carry out in their
every day practice the principles OF
right and of fair dealing will not en-
dorse this trick, which proposes that
the county shall get something 70.
nothing That is what Mr. Boyc
proposes to the people of the county
that he will do the county printing
/ for nothing and send his paper freC
d to every taxpayer who pays taxes IL
n Philips county. He does not expect
! to have his proposition accepted, h'
says, but does want the people tx
compel the county seat papers to d.
as he has proposed. Every persoI
- can readily see the motive prompting
IS the Freeman editor in making thi
d proposition. He knows that no pape
3 located away off in one corner of tn
n county could do the county printing
/ and do it correctly. As we'll Nigh
he propose that he will, if elected
- fill the Office of County Treasurer o
Clerk or other county officer for half
Of price provided the Office will be L.
5, Gated at Logan, instead of at tn
rs county seat The county pEintin.
7e for the year 1889, cost the count
~ about S3O5OO, divided among tn
N three Phillipsburg papers. The HEE
& AIDS share was S101.00.
The work is being done as low as
. can be without loss, and yet some O
e. Boyd's satellites are consumed wit
an almost insane desire to save th
county from the printing steal".
OF The printer has already been CT
.jf, down to the quick, but nobody pre-
ee5f poses that the legal fees of TOwnshr
mt Assessors, Justices Of the Peace, tn
an Sheriff, the Clerk, the SuperInteI
III dent, the Commissioners, or anybOd
,9A else doing public services, shall
les cut down for labor performed Fai
>, ing to get much Of a list Of subscuI
- 90 =, Liz TTn1nn I,al,nr nanar Edit.