The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-04
THE STATE EDITORIAL AssoCIA-
TION INDORsEss THE BANK
EXAMINERS EFFORTS
ANoKA UNIONS COMPLAINT
GRANVILLE s. PEASE OBJECTED To
BANK Examiner MEDDLING
WITH HIS ADVERTISING
MAKING HIS ADS TOO PLAT
A Committee of Editors Inyes-
tigated the Caxe and Their
Report Is Herewith
GiVen.

The editors of the state. city and
country alike may be narrow on party
lines, but that they are fair and honest
IN the open was demonstrated at the
meeting of the State Editorial association
last week Granville 8. Pease editor
of the Anoka Union made an attack
on Public Examiner Pope, and apneaIcd
to the association to join him in his crit
lclsm. large majority of the members
OF the association are, like Mr.. Pease
OF the Republican faith. Whether the
Anoka man considered that would helm
hlm IN his attack on Democratic state
oilicer, or whether he considered the po-
sition he had taken would on it's merits
appeal to his brother editors. is q matter
or opinion. 1t failed in either case and
Mr. Pease returned to Anoka with prac
tlcal and personal knowledge of how if
1eels to be mixed up with boomerang.
MR. PEASE' GRIEVANCE
1t seems the Anoka Union had been
doing some county printing. Other ma
pers IN other parts OF the state. it NAV
be said, had suffered the same exneri-
ence as Mr.. Pease but had let il mass
The public examiner; in going over the
accounts OF Anoka county, believed that
the Anoka Union had been charging the
taxpayers too much for the work He
accordingly had written the following.
st. Paul, Feb IS. 1901
oeIden McGaffey, Clerk Board of Coun-
~ commissioners Anoka, Mimi, Dear
Slr-Ihe attention of this department was
attracted to what seemed an unnecessarv
amount of space used and charged for
IN the publication of the commissioners
an aan9ual la statement for your county 1
mo therein two items which would seem
TO nave been improper One is A charge
OF 5000 for proof-reading the forfeited
tax sale list, and the other was an appro-
I;l.a RIiatIon ION, OF Sz90.W to pay premium on
any authority for the allowance -bV fhe
commissioners for either of those bills.
coming down to the publication of the
annual statement, we were favored with
a call from the publisher of the Anoka
Union, who claims that in the publication
ne followed copy. We have procured the
orlglnaI copy and have carefully examin-
ec the same, and am decidedly of the
opinion that the copy as furnished might
! nave been printed at a saving of at least
! 90 per cent of the space, and of the cost
determine how much Of the blame for
TINS unnecessary expense rests upon the
commissioners or the auditor as their
clerk or the publisheH. but simply make
half of the cost of that publication
might have been saved to the county bv
proper attention thereto on the part of
| hility.
Prior to the time when another publica-
tion of that characteristic be necessary,
this department will put forth standard
form which will, if followed, result in
a large saving to n5arly- every county
in the state in the item of the publica-
tion of the commissioners annual state
ment. and 1 wish to call your attention
to the proposition that whenever You
have a large amount of publishing done.
it would be we'll to revise the publisher. 3
proof, and see that space is economical d
where it can be done without sacrifice
of intelligent explanation. Very truly
yours, e. NJ. Pope,
Public Examiner
When this letter was shown to. Mr.
Pease he, went in the air He proposed
to have Gen. Prpe called down by the
State Editorial association. sI4e evidently
didn't figure that the equity of the ques-
ton would be considered rather than
the personal and political side of IT.
When he submitted his grievance at a
morning session of the association and
1t was placed III the hands Of {. commit
tee, Mr.. Pease was happy in anticipation
of its report Here is the satisfaction
which Mr.. Pease got out of it, being a
copy of the report Of the committee
which met with the approval OF the con-
VentiOn: ~