The Globe-republican., 1894-11-30
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was correct.
The law is exceedingly vague upon
the point of publishing this procla
nation. It does not state how or in
what form it shall be printed, MOI
specify any other price than the lie
Igal fee of all ordinary publications
provided by law. The form used by
this Office was condensed from Geo.
w. Cranes blank by Sheriff Beeson.
and while some papers would doubt
less have published the same for less
money. we made the price of the
publication in accordance with the
law, and measured as printers meas
display advertisements in all reputa-
table establishments where work is
done by the piece. And knowing the
work was measured correctly, we
most cheerfully accepted the pay.
So far as printing the ballots is
concerned, our neighbor, in making
comparison of price with Pratt coun
~, entirely suppresses the fact that
the price allowed for Ford county
printing included a lot that were
printed according to Secretary of
State Osborae's orders, and after
wards ordered corrected by the Sec
rotary and had to be printed again.
He says Pratt county has more peo-
pie than Ford, but fails to mention
the fact that Ford has much larger
area of territory than Pratt, covering
ten more congressional townships,
and that there are larger number
of municipal townships in Ford in
proportion to the number of inhabit
ants than almost any other county in
Kansas. In printing ballots the
number Of township tickets printed
must be taken into consideration.
as any printer who has learned his
trade knows.
Some of our townships nominated as
high us three different sets of can
didates. There are twenty three
precincts in Ford county, and each
precinct required two changes, one
on each side, making forty six diff
ferent forms for the list of bollots,
besides those which were not used
on account of the secretary of states
mistake, and then changes in color of
ballots for each precinct.
R6~CoUNTY CLERK LE1D1GH HAS
SINCE RECEIVED FROM THE STATE Forty
FIVE DOLLARS OF THE AMOUNT ALLOWED
FOR PRINTING BALLOTS. The populist
editor was fully advised by the coun
ty clerk that forty-fve dollars of the
bill was for the ballots laid aside by
order of the secretary of state, yet he
never made the least mention of it in
his "Bold Robbery" article. Can the
taxpayers rely upon the statements
of a newspaper that will thus know
ingly suppress part of the facts in
order to throw false light upon the
acts of county officers, and thus
wrongfully traduce old citizens who
have ever lived upright lives among
us?
This is the most difficult kind of
deception to deal With, but when the
public comes to fully realize that this
characteristic of our populist contem-
porary, his power to injure fellow
citizens by slandering them will be
very much diminished.
We made our price tie same as
Cranes retail price list for blanks,
which considering the many changes
in form, and small numher printed
for each township, and the great rush
required to get them done in time
after the late date the order was Civ
en-, was fair basis upon which to
estimate the job:
The Western Herald, of Jetmore,
publishes list of prices charged for
ballots printed under sharp compe
tition, taken from the Newspaper
World, and says that, according to
those prices it would be worth forty
dollars thousand to print those of
Hodgeman county. Our charge for
Ford county ballots was only three