Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-07-31
cb Barton County Fair August z56s 1908 Great Bend Kansas
A DOG in the Manager" Policy.

"Dog IN the ManSer" Policy.
A couple of young ladies from Great
Bend were here one day last week solicit
Ing votes In d Great Bend newspaper
piano contest. They failed to accom-
plish much for some upaccountabIe
reason. Perhaps it was because our
people have troubles of their own and
are too busy to pull other peoples chest
nuts ont Of the>f fire. The piano graft is
being worked to death all over the coun-
try with the exception of this communi-
ty where the people are too sensible to
be taken in by it. It would be different
if an Ellinwood girl had any show for
the prize, but as that is impossible the
best thing is to let the scheme severely
alone.-Ellinwood Leader.
There was once hungry, NANCY
cur, of no account whatever, but a
dog who thought he was the whole
thing, While shopping around the
stable hunting to fill his worthless
carcas, he crawled into the manger
and lay there all day long swapping
and snarling at the horses when they
came for their feed. He could not
eat the hay, nor the corn or oats, but
he thought it his bounden duty to
keep every other animal away from
this feed.
AS Miss Mary German, of 7Clafin,
and Miss Alma Craig of Great Bend
were in Ellinwood soliciting subscrip-
tions to the DEMOCRAT (and getting
them, too, Mr.. Cooke, in very salts
factory numbers) we assume that the
above uncalled for fling in the Leader
had reference to them.
The DEMOCRAT Piano Contest is
not graft" as Mr.. Cooke well
knows. Every dollar that is paid on
subscription to the DEMOCRAT is given
value received, and the proposition,
as Mr.. Cooke knows, is simply that
we take certain per cent of the
money we receive on subscriptions
between the 1st of June and the last
of December 1908, and purchase the
piano and other premiums which will
be given as awards to the young
ladies who secure the most votes.
Editor Cookies animus in the mat
ter crops out in the most virulent
form when he intimates that no "Ellin-
wood girl stood an earthly show" as
though it could make any difference
where the young lady was located, so
long as she secured the votes.
The DEMOCRAT has shown the
Leader the professional courtesy of not
"butting i'm to its affairs, and of saying
nothing about the way the corpulent
czar of the Ellinwood postoffice horn
swoggles his patrons and neighbors.
We have known of his charging one
of his own townsmen IS for a bunch
of business cards which any Office in
Great Bend would have made money at
printing for $1.25; of charging s4.O0
a thousand for stationery we would
duplicate for 1915, etc. But we
considered Elllnwood his field and re-
trained from calling the attention of
his people to the way he was "doing"
them. IF, however he should feel
tina: his duty calls upon him to advise
against the patronizing of this paper
which is paper for ALL THE CoUN-
Ty' and not local "puddin' (as
Cookie calls his Leader we shall,
in self-defense, proceed to "make
good" where heretofore we have
ignored his peculiar methods.
We have on our lists today nearly |
1000 subscribers; are adding hundreds |
each month; and believe that by |
January /, 1904 we will be furnish
ing the county news to fully 5000 |
subscribers. 1t will be worth the
S400 or $500 the prizes will cost US
to attain to this important circulation. |
And we shall continue to make the
DEMOCRAT worth more than the 81
a year subscription price to every
reader. in spite of all the swapping
and snarling of those who appear to
be jealous of its prosperity.
An Up-to-date Industry.
On making his weekly tour of in