Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-01-16
CITY OFFICIAL PAPER.
THURSDAY, JAN. l6, 1902
THE REAL FACTS.

The Grays Harbor Gazette persists IN
Haunting the county printing steal be-
fore the public, and in its last ISSUE de-
votes a column of space to an article un-
der the caption, "Facts Stated" Now,
to state a fact without wandering into
the field OF imagination and personal
abuse appears to be totally beyond the
capacity of this BENEFICIARY OF partisan
board Of commissioners and pet OF a SUI
perior court, and this attempt is no ex-
ception to its rule.
But one fact is discernable throughout
the article, and that is fact that the
writer has told so frequently during the
past six years that is bears no claim to
novelty, and which the Gazette strenuos-
" endeavored to prove false in the camp
align last year. This is the statement
of the county printing steals OF 1929
4-6. This is real live fact, but the Ga
zette could not be made recognize it when
made by this paper. But, during even
the balmy boodling days of the early
'9O's, no set Of commissioners we're found
to award the printing contract to the
highest bidder, and no court was discOv-
cred that would find that while bid
was lower than the one receiving the
contract, it was not sufficiently low(on-
ly 1874 COY to disturb the contract" How
long it will take, under these presidents,
to Guido the looting gang OF the '90's the
intelligent reader can readily figure.
So much for the solitary fact, late even
though be its admission, let us investi
gate the imaginations. 1t is NOT at fact
that tire HERALD complains that the Ga
Zette receives to much for the work. Its
own bid was one-eighth Of a cent per de-
scription higher. The cases OF the HER
AID and Vidette are NOT mutual. This
paper opposed the bid Of the Vidette on
idcntically the same grounds the Gazette
did. The HERALD DID NOT have an OPP
portunity to appeal to the supreme court
from the unjust decision Of the superior
court. The commissioners delayed the
trial Of the case in the superior court for
over three months with the express pur-
pose Of preventing an appeal by this pa
per. 1t required four months 10 get q
decision from the superior court, and
they well knew that the delinquent list
would be printed ere We could possibly
get action in the supreme court. We're
this not so the case would surely have
gone to the upper court.
That the Gazette shifts the blame for
the poor job done on the delinquent list
W. VIC OiIlCIdl5 WIDE; hhtJ ~ war w pre-
pare the copy does notlesscn the force,
or business Of the criticism made by this
paper. And, in making it, we but voiced
the expression Of number Of inter-
csted parties who came 10 thig office TO
gee the first issue OF the lintg, - the cir
culation Of the Gazette being limited al
most to its exchange liet outside Of IIo-
quiam. We have received copies Of the
tax list in our exchanges from more than
half the counties Of the state, and all of
them. sage Chehalis county, are printed
in some sort OF tabulatcd form, SO that
the average citizen may readily under
stand it.
Concerning the abuse Of the Gazette,
we shall adopt the digniiied method
practiccd by our ancient ancestor, King
OF Ulster, when the historic donkey
kicked him.