The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-01-20

number of tax payers. In fact we
think in this instance it represents
nobody but the fellow who wanted
the public printing but did not get it.
The Journal says the contract for
the public printing is ''wilful, delib-
crate and prodigal squandering of
public money! Let US again turn to
the facts for moment. Some years
ago, that is to say before the JOUrnGI
was born, the county printing cost the
county twenty-five hundred dollars
and number of years ago it cost
seventeen hundred to eighteen hun
drnd dollars.
In 1896, when the local laws had to
be published, the printing and pub
fishing done by The REPUBLICAN
amounted by actual measurement to
$979.40 for which we received 500.
The Journals statement that it
would have done the work for much
less does not count for much. The
paper is in its infrncy. 1t does not
know what Giving wages for print
ers are as it has not yet learned the
alphabet of the business Besides,
the JournGJ is only an experiment as
yet and there is no assurance that it
will live two years. Whilst it might
have given a bond, which in case of
20, .s,
esioners to damages, that would not in
any sense do the publishing. The
papers with which the Commissioners
contracted are old reliable papers
with a large bona .fde circulation and
are recognized advertising mediums.
1t is not always best to employ the
man who offers to do your work the
cheapest. 1t often happens that the
cheapest man cannot do it at all.
When the Journal has been in ex-
istence long enough to acquire bona
tide circulation and to know what
living wages" are it may have the
right as an advertising medium to
compete for county work but it has
no such right now.
The Journal says 1--WE propose to be
fearless in defense of the tax payers"
| If this be true it has certainly made a
very bad beginning for it has at
tempted to impose upon the County
| Commissioners by offering to give a
| bond 70 10 +ho+ liaI, 10 h.,
ability to do, and with the bond and
the Journal both the Coun ty Com
missioners would have been in a very
large hole. The money so far as the
publishing is concerned would have
been thrown away and the intent
and object of the law would have
been defeated.
If the Journal intends to be fearless
in defense of the tax payers let it give
an earnest of it's good intentions by
having itself taxed The Journal
with all it's plant, fixtures and good
viii does not figure on the assessment
books of the county and is paying no
itlACNs l4CJ IIlC JOttf ftttt CCiil UllC iU-
tention of the County Treasurer to
this fact.
An examination of the records will
disclose the fact that the Journal
charges just as much for the few legal
advertisements it has published as
the DemOcTGt or The REPUBLICAN
H. barpoS for +ba Gonna Lind Of y,,orly
What, then, can be its motive for of
fering to do the county printing so
cheaply? To us it seems very trans
parent The J0t2RaJ wanted a
chance to pose as the friend and
champion of the tax payers. 1t
wanted a chance to make the impress
sion that there is jobbery and corrup-
ton in the Commissioners office. 1t
viii fail in its scheme as it deserves to
do. 1t assumes that tax payers are
very,credulous but there are not many
of them who are so supplemented as
to believe that the JOu74sal was
started or that it is being run as a
Shl''' A''o'i0 oohSSih VI loi INV hOolo
purpose of defending tax payers.
Nay, Eay, Mr.. journal, you may fool
some al the people all the time or you
may fool all of the people some times,
but yoN can't fool all the people all
the time.
III conclusion, we will say TEE RE-
PUBLICAN has never received penny
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