Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-07-11


s. have seen proper to have the count
ie printing done in the common ordinar
Is type and style which is used in Al
n other reading matter in the paper'
% there is nothing in the law whic
70 renders such a contract either illegs
Il or inequitable. We suppose the pee
y pie Of the county have the right t
have their public business done in a
good style as any man has his privat
8 business done.
In support Of this argument tn
. law bearing on the publication Of tn
|, official matter ordered by the State il
: explicit in every detail and is as fol
lows:
"All printing ordered and required to b.
done in q newspaper shall constitute the
seventh class, and shall be printed on non.
pareil type, and shall be set up solid :"
This law found in section l55 Of
article $685. Of General Statutes,
states exactly the size Of type and
the manner Of its composition, which
the law bearing on other legal publica-
tions does not.
j A humorous incident Of this county
printing matter took place at the
court house last week, when the COM
bine appeared before the county COM
missioners and with crocodile tears
blowing deep burrows down their lily
white countenances, told Of the awful
things the REFLECTOR had done. The
story is best condensed in the follow
ing dialogue:
Combine-We demand an investi-
cation Of the RErLEcToR's methods
Of setting the county official matter.
(Not in the interest Of the taxpayers
but because the REFLECTOR is prosper
ing while we are living on dry
husks.)
Commissioners-Let's see, you fell
lows received sixty-six and two-thirds
per cent of the money drawn by the
REFLECTOR from the county, did you
notp
Combine-Y-y-yes.
Commissioners you make the
charge that it was illegally securedP
Combine-(Faintly) Yves.
Commissioners-And have any Of
you made a move to refund to the
county the share received by you and
which you publicly acknowledge to
be stolen from the county,
Combine-No! BUT
Commissloners-It rather seems to
us that you should purify you own
moral atmosphere before charging
others with being dishonest.
And the combine beat an ignomin-
iOus retreat.
Natural history informs us that
there is a serpent SO insanely blind in
its malice that it bites its own body.
The same authority gives account of
a bird so abandoned to filth that it
fouls its own nest. Neither of these
despicable representatives Of their
species is more deserving Of execra-
ton than the newspaper which will
invent lies to injure the credit and
standing Of its more successful rivals,
and the anti-REFLECTOR combine
which is swapping type and lies with
the same facility, is justly earning
for itself and each member Of the trio
the contempt and disgust of every
sensible person in Dickinson county.
The whole matter may be summed
up in three words;
Envy and
Jealousy and
Hatred
Envy Of the REFLEoroR's wide cir
Gle OF friends and admirers.
Jealousy of the REFLEcToR's grow
ing circulation and material prosper
ity.
Hatred Of all that is upright, de-
cent and Of good repute in business
and government.
I t
The REFLECTOR will continue to do
the county printing according to law,
as 1t always has done, 50 long as the
county commissioners see proper to
designate it as the official paper Of the
county. 1t will continue to publish
it in plain, legible form, in readable
type, and send it into every house,
hold in the county, so that all our
people may know the condition Of the
affairs Of the county.