The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-10-28

TnE llo,mfoiae., Is out in a lopg arti
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county commissioners for not advertising
a letting for the printing Of the election
tickets IN this county Ii Is brilliant
conception of the youthful leliily~-
Two weeks ago the size OF the ballot
was uncertain, and every responsible
printer in Pennsylvania who had put an
bids on election tickets Withdrew his bid.
In Allegheny county-where the young
man has evidently heard something
about letting having been made-the
printers of Pittsburg went together and
/ ag g ii to let one man do the hidd;ng-
/ practically no letting AT all-and then
/ divide the work. Had the attorney gen
/ eral decided, aS ii was for time feared,
| that the ballot would be fifty two inches
! long, three -fourths OF the counties IN
| Peunsylvania would have held no elec-
/ ton. IL would have been an lmpossl-
| biIitv to print the tickets, for the reason
that there were not printing presses
| enough in the state of size large enough
to have printed them.
The commissioners of this county,
| anxious to perform their duty In pro-
viding election tickets, talked with the
| proprietor of tie FREEMAN about the
| matter, and it was concluded that, III the
! h4
/ of the Baker ballot and the uncertainty
of its size, the proprietor of the FREE
MAN should, aS soon as the size of the
ballot would be known, at cnce make ar
rangements to secure the paper heces
sary for printing them.
This We did. and have undertaken tn
! priut ou,-half of the ballots. Unless
something unforeseen occurs. we expect
TO have them done in time. Why the
commissioners did not consult the No'ci
t,i,s.cr we do not know. II may have
been becau they knew his charges
would be extOrtiOnate if he got chance.
They had some experience, for IN
publishing the triennisl assessment hast
wear the Carrolltown NsUS and the
Johnstown,,, Herald each charged the
county SO, while the h0"nfdiH'''
doubled them both and sweetened the
pot two IoIlare, charging So for the
same work.
But We are spinning this article "ut
longer than We Intended and must cut II
on. The game is not worth the powder.
The readers of the Nonafaineer will, how
evc:. hc benefited this week, as ~. IJs
article it quotes literally from th" f"EE
NhN of several years ago, and, although
tine matter is a little old its readers vii.
have some good reading matter for once.
II may, however, be like casting pearls
before swine. and not appreciated.
But before We close We. wish To- quote
the Not,ntuinee1 in what it says in draw
ing parallel between Allegheny and
Cambria counties in printing the tablets.
II says
They Allegheny county Will pay
500 UUU for S4O. .Ouu utliylui and specimen
, ballots and 2lO. 600 cards of Instruction.
making total oi 1.n5u.ouu pieces.
which will cost them about Sl-"l per
thousand quite different figure from
the 80 per thousand which II IS sand the
| Cambria county commissioners will pay
| for their ballots Ii Cambria county
were paving for the Allegheny county
job at 81 per thousand she would pay
S3l 500 for it, or Sll 800 more tuan
! Allegheny county will pay for It.
And yet this verdant youth says in an
other column that his d" bid [fOr printing
the ballotsl had been prepared. Eyi-
dently ne has lain up at nights poring
over the problem, for he shows his famil-
iarity with the work. - Our bid had
been prepared" says the young man,
| who says "quite different figure from
the So ger thousand which it is said the
Cambria county commissioners will pay
for their ballots"
This young man who pretends 10 be
printer and who had prepared a
bid. ought to know that he could not
print little sxlO circular for much less
than 50 per thousand.
f, What the commissioners of Allegheny
! county inteud doing with 2l0, 900 cards
of instruction We are at a loss to know.
! The editor o. the. U0uHtrinspr, who . had
| prepared bid - for the work in this
! county, and who is therefore familiar
with the work, and who figures out that
the work in this county at the same rate
would cost S3l 800, or S1l 500 more
than Allegheny county will pay for it,
ought to enlighteu us.
! The man who wrote the article in the
! NOantGii,ter did not know what ne was
/ writing about. 1t is too absurd To argue
/ Three dollars per thousand would not
buy the paper, and if the editor prepared
a bid he could not help but know IT,
The editor of the HOuntaiaerT may be-
authority on what woman ia the neigh
bOrhOod has presented her husband with
n new baby. but on printing the ballots
| il IL self evident he knows nothing
Or course the protected manufacturer
/ Is for Il Protection system ont ot which