The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-07-13

gust last year. The bill as rendered
on November |, it not having been
presented before owing to the care
lessness of a former emplOye, was
for two squares 104 times, $1O2.4S.
IN fact the notice measured one and
nine tenths squares, but in all news
paper offices this would be called two
squares, fractions less than one-half
| not being considered.
Now after all the fussing and Tuning
Of the Union, this bill was strictly
| within the terms of the Statesman's
contract with the city for advertising.
The contract rate was II cents for
the first insertion and 40 cents for
rate the cost of the notice would have
been about s110. but the bill was made
out for a less amount. 1t was the fault
of the water department that the no
tice was allowed to run four months
instead of two, as intended.
At ten cents line per day, the rate
charged other advertisers, the twenty
lines would have cost two dollars a
day. and about 5000 for the four
months that it was allowed to stand.
The Union says that the notice was
! not two squares, but only one and a
half squares. An examination of the
Unions bill printed on the same page
of the morning paper will show that it
charged the city for twenty lines,
which any printer knows makes two
squares. The difference in the bills
rendered to the city for the publica-
ton of the notice four months in the
Statesman and two months in the I'm
ion will give business men a correct
idea of the relative value of advertis-
ing in the two papers. Advertising
in the evening paper is worth about
ten times as much as like service in
the morning paper.
SO much for the Unions big cam
paign hOld-up story.
Now let us see what the record of
the Union is for using the big mitt."
Referring to the files Of the Walla
Nalla Argus. We find this statement
in the issue of October "a. 1901:
For instance the Argus has it upon
good evidence that the Union printed
several hundred Summons publ
cations under the new delinquent tax
| law, where it should have printed but
| one. Other counties included all de-
| linquent tax descriptions under one
| general summons, paying therefor ten
cents for each description. The Un
! ion, however, is said to have devoted
| a whole summons to each desert pton
and to have run up bill of more than
thousand dollars"
| Thus it will be seen that for the
publication of one-hundred descrip
| tiOns, which, if Included in one notice
at ten cents each, would have cost the
county only ten dollars, the Union
rendered a bill to the county commits
siOners for One-t thousand dollars and
got the money. Compared with this
eXtOrtionate charge the price charg-
ed the city by the Statesman for that
water notice was insignificant. 1t is
true that when the water committee
! protested against the size of the
| Statesman's bill for this notice the
$40, but he did this voluntarily after
being rendered $45 by the chairman
| of the committee. II he had been as
grasping as the Union management
in dealing with the county commits
SiOners, he would have insisted upon
| the payment of the whole bill. as the
law and the contract were plainly on
his side.
The fact that the machine organ
gives nearly it's whole front page to
a trivial matter like this shows how
, meager has been its stock of campaign
material. 1t has simply magnifed a
mole hill into a mountain. 1t says by
the publication of this story it called
the Statesman's bluff" 1t will be no.
iced that the alleged expose was not
f regarded as of enough importance al
this office to require any explanation
prior to the election.
MACHINE ORGANS INSULTED
; PRESIDENT