Omaha daily bee., 1898-06-17
THE COUNTRY PRESS.

The conspiracy Matched in the inner re-.
ccsses Of the Omaha Fakery to have the
exposition sandbaggcd or ignored by the
country press has proved n Hat failure.
Notwithstanding the covert attempts to
create disaffection among the publish
ers of the country weeklies by the expo
sition management, the country press
with very few exceptions Is standing up
nobly for the greatest enterprise ever
undertaken to advertise the resources of
Nebraska. The average Nebraska editor
knows a hawk from a handsaw. He
readily reads between the lines that the
effort to array the country press against
the exposition is inspired by malicious
mediocrity under cover of sympathetic
friendship for an abused country press,
They have manhood enough to resent the
imputation of supreme sclfishnCss that
would magnify and praise the exposition
for the sake of n season pass or belittle
and misreprescnt its scope to vent their
spleen upon its management for failing
to comply with all the demands made
upon 1t. Even those who have been
inveigled into the crusade are conscious
of the fact that they have been made
to play n despicable part when they give
credence and publicity to baseless filings
and downright falsehoods concerning the
policy pursued by the Omaha exposition
toward the country press. They know
that the advice to ignore the exposition
given by the self-styled organ of the
State Press association emanates di.
rectly from the sub-editor of the Omaha
Fakery, whose name appears at the head
of the editorial columns of this spurious
organ and who, while advising the coun.
try editors to spurn the tender of an eN
position pass, carries one in his OWL
pocket. They know also, as everybody
who knows anything about the courte
sizes extended by the Worlds fair and
other eXpositions to the country press
that the Omaha exposition has beer
more liberal than any of its predecessors
toward the country weeklies as well as
city dailies. They know that there is nc
truth whatever in the assertion mall
ciously published by one of the Lincoln
malcontents who get their inspiration
from the Omaha Fakery that Nebrask;
editors or any other editors have beef
rendered Photographic term passes fol
which n payment of So is eXacted in ad
vance, when as Il matter of fact al
editorial passes issued or to be ISSUED
are on plain cards and no fee whateve>
or even Il pledge to reciprocate in al
yertising is exacted. And this is onl,
one of the many contemplate fakes tina
have been industriously circulated
among Nebraska publishers by the in
famous gang that is striving to brin:
the Department of Publicity into disre
pute.
In spite of the brine that is bein;
poured into wounded suSceptibilities ant
tender sensibilities the Nebraska coun
try press knows that the Department o
Publicity labOrS under II great strait
in dealing with 10000 publications
and necessarily must be governe'
by uniform rules and safeguard the in
terests of the exposition against undu
abuse of privileges. 1t was an open Sc
| cret that in issuing tickets to the Ne
braska. Iowa and Kansas country pres
good for the month of June only the eX
position was actuated by Il desire to Sc
cure from the country press the earlies
possible publicity of the magnitude an
attractions of the exposition from PEI
sonal view. There was no disposition
however, to compel the attendlnce Of an
publisher during June nor is there an
I disposition to curtail the privileges O
those who come after June. On the col
e trary The Bee is in position to ssure tn
country press that the most liberal coul
e tesy will be extended to all who ma
come and make known their desire t
visit the exposition grounds at any tim
between now ard the closing of it's gate