The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-01-24
NO ..OFrICIAL DETERMINATIONS"
E. H. A.

NO 'sOFFICIAL DETERMINATIONS"
The Observer owes it to its subscribers
to explain why its supplements of last
week were so late in reaching them.
The exploration is this:
When the supplements came on Tues
day at midday we went at once to the
postofice and inquired of Assistant Post
master Communicating Postmaster By
mum not being inf we could send the
supplements out that night. He replied
positively that we could not-that the
law did not permit it. There was nothing
else for us to do but wait for the regular
issue of Friday; and the supplements
lay in our Office until Thursday night,
and we're mailed with the regular Friday
paper. Accidentally we discovered on
Thursday night that, while The
Observer supplements had been refused
admission on Tuesday, the Herald and
News supplements. which were also the
governors message, were permitted to
60 through the postofice that night.
So othatit was not our fault at all that the
Herald and News readers received their
supplements two days earlier than ours
received theirs; it was piece of favorlt-
ism on the part of the postofice.
Such discrimination IS not only vlo-
-lation of the postal law, but is viola
ton of all official decency. There IS
not much satisfaction in saying this, but
it is about all the redress that we can get
for being served so contemplate trick
We hope the new administration will
administer the affairs of the office with
out partiality.-Observer, Jan. 21.
The explanation of the above article is
this: The Observer was badly beaten
by the Herald an New in giving its sub
scribers the annual message of the gov
ernor and instead of acknowledging its
defeat and resolving to do better next
time, has fallen out with the postmaster
about it. We have no interest in the
matter at all except to state and to prove
that no favoritism was shown this paper
by the postofice, and to correct mis-
statement in regard to the Herald and
News, and we are sorry that our contem-
porary belches up so much venom
simply because "The Herald and News
readers received their supplements two
days earlier than ours received THEIRS
The Herald and News did not print a
Supplement- to its issue of January
18th. 1t gave the governors message to
its readers in an extra edition of the pa
per dated on January 18th and mailed
the same day. The postal law on the sub
iect of extra editions is as follows: "Ex-
ira editions, marifestly issued for the
purpose of communicating additional
news or imparting additional infor-
nation germane to the publication,
and not for advertising purposes, or as
a special independent issue, are mailable
at the second-class rate" Under this
section of the postal law it is clear that
the extra edition of The Herald and News
could be mailed just as regular edition
of the paper, which it was.
The Observer printed a supplement
giving the governors message. That
supplement was dated the 18TH of Jan
uary, and was headed "Supplement
to The Newberry Observer" and was,
therefore, supplement to the regular
issue of the Observer Of Friday, January
II. The postal law OH the subject of
supplements is as follows: "Supplements
must, as the law requires, be folded
with the regular issues they purport to
supplement. If mailed otherwise pos
tage must be prepaid at the third-class
rate" "Supplements must in all cases
bear K the date corresponding to the
regular ISSUE" From this it will be
seen that the Observers supplements
could not, under the law, have been
mailed until Friday, the 18th, the date
which they bore.
There was no discrimination" and no
''favoritisn" on the part of the postoffice
in the matter. They sim
ply obeyed the law as they were sworn
to do. The editor Of the Observer should
have learned by this time the difference
between all extra edition Of a paper and
a supplement to paper, and he should
not let his anger, caused by being left i'll
his readers the news, cause
him to nlisstate the facts in order to,,abuse
the postmaster. He should at least state
the facts. The Herald and News issued
no supplement
If the Observer intended to send the
governors message to its readers OIL
tuesday, the I4th, then why did it have
its supplements, containing that message
lated Friday, the 18TH? And if the OBJ
server intended to give its readers the
governors message on Tuesday, the 18th,