Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1902-11-06
roo pAR7YSAN.

"To, tFw victors belong the spoils'
j. perhaps the carrect thing in dis
peusing public patronage in the
way Of making official appoint
Ments, but this practice is some
times carried too far by public oili-
eials when trausacting business for
which ether people pay, Reverthe-
hess it appears to some public oth,
ciafs as their incumbent duty to
give all patronage or business COM
ing from their eiIfce 10 their party
associates, regardless of the wishes
Of the persons directly interested
those paying for the service.
An instance in point is the Uni.
ted States land office in this city.
The lspd laws give the register of a
hnd office the right to designate
III what paper notices for publica-
tiossrp that is notices of mtention of
settlers to make final proof on land,
shall be published, the only restric-
tion being that the notice shall be
published in a paper situated near
est the land. Until the present re-
gime registers and receivers have
not been arbitrary in this matter
but where two papers were publish
ed in the same town, they allowed
the party who pays the publication
Zee some option in the matter, and
If be desired his notice publish
ed in a-certain paper the officers
would so designate. But with the
present incumbents of this land
office party lines are distinctly
drawn. With one exception dur
ing the past four years, no demo-
cratic paper in the district has
been designated as the paper in
which final proof notices might be
published, if there was republican
paper published as near the land
Notwithstanding settlers have fire.
quently requested the privilege of
paying publication fees to the pa
per Of their choice.
This practice may be entirely in
keeping with the law, yet it is an
Injustice to the people who pay the
bills, ltwould be fullyas consist
ent for the county judge of Wasco
county, who is democrat. to re
fuse administrators the privilege of
choosing in what paper their notice
shall be published. He could with
as great a degree Inconsistency say
that all notices coming from the
probate court should be published
in the Times Mountaineer, it being
the only democratic paper in the
county, as the register of the land
Office can say that all land notices
shall be published in the republi-
can papers of the district. This
however, would be considered aw-
fully partisan. Times Mount
aineer.
And this is not all. In one case
at least, the.land Office business
was taken from a paper of recog-
nized circulation and given to an
upstart sheet that had no circula-
tion, as required by the postal au-
.horities, for purely partisan rea-
sons, even after the paper Of recog-
nized circulation advertised its
willingness to publish such notices
at one-third the rate charged by
the upstart sheet. Numerous peo-
pie when desiring to make final
proof on land wrote pesonal letters
to The Dalles land Office request
ing them to designate the paper of
greatest circulation aud smallest
charges and their letters were not
even answ cred; A number of peo-
pie in this section of Gillian coun-
ty can vouch for this statement.
They cannot easily forget about
being "held up" for that $500.
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