Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-07-27
SOME MORE FACTS.

SOME NUKE FACIS.
Our recent discussion of the county
advertising question has been produc-
tive of results that are highly crafty
ing.
1t has not only enlightened the coun-
ty board of commissioners to point
that has enabled them to dispose OF
the matter on a proper business-like
basis but for the first time in all these
years it has made the gentlemen who
have been raising all the trouble pub
lish some actual, facts.
The facts referred to appeared in
last Fridays issue of their papar and
include extracts from the records
showing the amounts that have been
paid to The ENQUIRER, The Yeoman
and the Rock Hill Herald for adver-
tising and printing.
The presumable object of the publ
cation of these figures is to show the
large amounts that have been paid
The ENQUIRER by the county. Our
bill in 1898 was SS41.02. In 1894 1t
was S6s6.4O. In 1895 it was $22. In
1897 it was $51.52 and in 1898, $l32.9 80.
This is according to the figures as pub
lished, and while we have taken no
occasion to verify them, we have no
desire to make question as to their
correctness.
fit is not the large size of the bills
that brings out this publication we do
not know what it is. And if this is
the reason, we are yet waiting upon
our friends to make their point. And
the point is, is there in these figures
any charge that was not fully warrant
ed by law or contract, as the case may
have been? Did THE ENQUIRER print
any advertisement that it was not au-
thorized to print? Did it charge
more for any advertisement than 1t
was authorized to charge? Did any
public official publish any advertise
ment or have any job printing done
that was not necessary. If any OF
these conditions apply to any of the
advertisements or any Of the job print
ing, then there is something rotten
either on the part of THE ENQUIRER,
the official who had the work done, or
the officials who paid for it. The
whole thing is now matter of public
record. If the owners of our esteem
ed contemporary are not able to inves-
tigate and discover existing rottenness
in such a plain case, where all the
facts are so easily obtainable, then
their manager ought to be, and we
hope to see them, in their next issue,
expose the whole business.
But in this statement of facts re-
ferred to, there is another little item
that is much more interesting to US
than those magnificent" bills, and we
think that this little item will also be
of interest to the public. We refer to
a charge which is laid down in the
statement of "cold-blooded facts" as
follows: "December Is, 1896. Paid
the Yorkville Yeoman $100.36." This
is also from the records. We have an
itemized copy of the bill that goes to
make up this account, and we know
all about the contract under which the
charges do not seem to have been
made. We will give some "cold-
blooded" facts in regard to the matter
and leave the balance to be explained
by the gentlemen who have always
maintained that there was something
rotten about the public advertising,
except when the public funds were
being used to help them carry their
little load.
On January 80, 1896, in accordance
with a silly statute then in force, but
since held to be repealed, THE YORK
WILLIE ENQUIRER offered to do all the
advertising for which the county might
have to pay during the year for "a
cents hundred words, and the York
Vile Yeoman offered to do it for Is
cents a hundred words. Both propo-