The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1895-05-18
The CITY printing.

~ meeting OF the city council on Monday
evening, the council made the GRAPHIC the Off
cial paper of the city in place of the Index, so
the GRAPHIC can now with proprinty place at the
head oil its column under the misleading heading
Official paper of Biuie coun y the words
city Official Paper aid the Index will gruce-
fully pull down lis sign. In this instance one
beat four ,uld we stopd nowhere in competi,iun
with tho Demo GRAPHIC man. Tho Index will
be run FREQ from all entarg.ements and dividing
up and covering up with other papers 50 that
when you read it you may know its authar--In-
dex.
We hoped TO be spared the trouble of
referring to the city printing less
wranglc between the local papers the
better-but Mr.. Maynard has been so
unreasonable about the matter-as the
foregoing pettis., item partly shows
and may be trying TO place tile council
in false light, that simple justice to
that body alone requires some explana-
ton.
No one knows better than Mr.. May
nard that the city printing has been di-
vided between the GRAPHIC and Index
equally ever since the town was incor-
porated. He knows, too, that politics
does not enter in municipal affairs in
Rimball 20 more than in nearly all the
other towns in the state. The members of
the council were not placed there because
they were Republicans or Democrats.
MIR. Maynard, as private citizen, was
narfpaf1u co}icfaI until, l,n t;po-
der of things. He is doubtlessly now con-
tented and happy with the way our mu-
nicipal affairs are run-jointly by Re-
publicans Democrats and Populists--
except in the matter of $40 or SIS in
printing. It's funny how a few dollars
will change mans idea of the right and
wrong Of thing. Mr.. Maynard never Oh
jected to Mayor Foote'S appointment of a
Democratic assessor two years in success
sion and we know that he is perfectly
willing that Democrat should hold the
office Of treasurer year after year. Then
why begrudge the GRAPHIC, say $l5 a
year every other year out of the munich
pal pie? Is Mr.. Maynard any better Re-
publican than Mr.. Willis or Mr.. Ham
mond, or Mr.. Thorndyke, or Mr.. Drips?-
none of these claimed the printing by
divine right.
When Mr.. Thornayke was running the
Index both papers, by an agreement be-
tween the publishers, did the city print
ing jointly at one price. This was high
ly satisfactory to the council and still
more so to the public. The appearance 2
on the scene OF third paper-the Kim
ballite put a stop to such an arrange
ment, After the Kimballite was bought
by Mr.. Drips and the writer the GRAPHIC
had the printing one year and the Index
one.
/ Tho subjoined letter from Mr.. Thorn
dyke bears out our statement as to how
the printing has been apportioned in
former years;
Loveland Colorado, April 30 1896,
Mr.. c. n. Tinan, Klmbail s. ID.
Friend Clate:-So far us our memory goes all
the time NC were in Kimball the city printing
was divided equally between the GRAPHIC and
the Index. we both printed the MATERIAL; Il, Tie
ordinances, and all the other matter-as the
files of the two papers will show. When ! went
on the board there was u law made thatn mem
Der of the city council could furnish anything
to the city-so then l did my part free
yet yoS turned over the half which should have
had if had presented my bill as in the old
style. It appchrs to nc that you ought to re-
member all this without my assistance-but
am always willing some of my vast knowledge
for the benefit of others. The hest way for YOU
two people now to do is us we did whan there
each print the matter-an each put in bills fol
one-half the fee, One can set up tho matter al
one time, and the other the next-sometme.
borrowing the set matter from the other. That.
the way we used to do, and don't see why yor
people do not do the same thing.
w. L. TnoRNpYKE.
The members of the council-fiye Of
them anyway-were very anxious for 4
resume OF the old arrangement, ant
while it was the GRAPHIc's turn to have
the printing absolutely, the old way was
highly satisfactory to us. But MIR. May
nard would not agree to it, insisting thai
as the council was Republican five to ont
he must have the whole hog and cx
pected to get it. The council, elected as
nonpartisan body could not look at TIL,
matter in that light, and righiiull,
named the GRAPHIC the official paper
much to Mr.. Maynards cbargrin and dis
appointment. This is where THE Index
Observation-Disclosures
: and dividing up and cover ng up with
otherr-papers. .so-tha hat--when--you re ad it
you ,may-knoW-it's-author" comes In.
When Uncle Chauncey assays to writ,
| an item common courtesy toward til,
: more intelligent portion of humanit,
would prevent anyone else being charged
with its authorship.