Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-12
NOT BEGGING FOR EXPOSITION PAT
RONAGE.

NOT BEGGING FOR EXPOSITION PAT
RONAGE.
And now comes the subsidized organ
of the exposition with the charge that
the comments made by The Bee upon
the fake advertising of this project are
inspired by the refusal of the mana
gers to pay The Bee several hundred
dollars for advertising the exposition.
The exact language of the organ Is
"that the management has so far failed
to yield to The Bees entreates." This
Is about as true as anything that the
organ has published concerning the eX-
position or the motives that have I'M
PEELED The Bee to refuse publicity to
certain bombastic announcements which
it knew to be outra geously overdrawn.
AS a matter of fact the exposition
managers have never had an oppor-
tunity to decline an advertising propo-
sition from The Bee. From the outset
of the enterprise to the present day
all advertising propositions have come
from exposition officials or through
members of its own directory. The
first of these was embodied in the fol-
lowing letter:
Greater America Exposition, Omaha,
March s, 1S99.-Business Manager. Omaha
Daily Bee, City: Dear Sir-At meeting
of the executive committee, Greater America
Exposition, held March s. 1899, II was moved
and carried that the committee offer The
Omaha Daily Bee the sum of $75 per month
for six inches OF space on the editorial page
OF each edition of The Morning Bee. This
offer to be good until the opening of the
exposition, July /. In case Of your ac-
ceptance of this offer please notify the
committee. Very truly yours,
j. j. POINTS,
Asst Secy Elk. Com
To this proposal the following reply
was made:
OMAHA, March II, 1S9s.-Mr. ]. ]. Points,
Asst Sec. Executive Committee-Dear Sir
Allow us to acknowledge your favor OF
March s. We are compelled to respectfully
decline your offer of 'seventy-hve dollars
for six inches of space on the editorial page
OF each edition of The Morning Bee"
This offer is rather vague and somewhat
peculiar. We presume that you desire dis
play space, as reading matter on the edi-
torial page is not for sale at any price.
We regret that other contracts will not
permit us to give you display space on that
page. Allow us, however, to submit price
of six inches of display space in each edl-
| tion OF The Morning Bee from March 10
| to June 80, inclusive, at our regular rates.
The price of such space full position, would
be S4O2.06, or, for the run of the paper,
! S312.O2 We will be pleased to have your
committee accept the above proposition.
| Very truly yours,
THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY,
By c. c. ROSEWATER,
Business Manager.
| This offer was supplemented by a
tender of half page per day, six days
of the week, at a nominal price. Both
of these offers We're respectfully pigeon
holed. On May 27 Manager Penfold
applied to the business Office of The
! Bee for quotations for display space in
the morning edition for period of
three months and a few days later the
publication of display card was ne
! gotiated.
Does this show that The Bee has inn
portuned the exposition for advertising:
If the organ which willfully seeks 10
place The Bee in n false light before
the community has reference to more
recent negotiations for adv yertising the