Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1904-01-07
The Sullivan Herald being SO

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badly pregnated the spirit Of kicking
couldrnot help..belching up some of
its grasshopper spit and ..casting it
at County. .supt. NJ. R. Black, charg-
ing him with heedlessness because
he did not use the. columns Of. the
Herald in announcing the program
of the County Institute. in connec-
tion with the other three papers of
the county. The Herald feels that
the County Supt. was partial and
that the public suffered the lack Of
information on news of signal i'm
portance. 1t tseems to make vast
difference with the Herald as to
whose OK is gored.'a There is less
reason to believe that the public
was not sufficiently informed OF
the institute program it having
been published in two party papers
and one neutral organ of the county,
than it is to suppose that the legal
advertising of the Sheriff s office,
limited to the narrow confines of
Democratic papers only, receives
the proper publicity which the law
intends it should have. Never
before, to our knowledge, has this
county had sheriff sale advertising
confined wholly to the narrow linn
its of one-party publicity. Just
why the Republicans of this county
are at present so openly ignored is
beyond the News Items explana-
ton although it has repeatedly tried
to learn the cause. The mystery
is yet unsolved. No cause having
ever arose to separate the sheriff
and editor from pleasant social re-
lations which at present exists,
the reason can only be surmised
why the Republican side of the
county are cut off from this i'm
portant information. We have.
however, strong suspicious as to
the cause. We do not know that
this condition is brought about by
the instance of the Herald, and
will not make that assertion. We
do, however, believe much of the
manifested evidence that the Her.
aid is the heart, backbone, lungs
and liver of the Democratic county
machine which dominates many of
the weak within it's rank, only a
few of the strong daring to assert
their freedom of action. State laws
wisely compel officers to distribute
election advertising in two party
papers each of which represent the
two leading parties, thus giving all
an opportunity of making them
selves familiar mith matters that
concern them. Why should any
legal advertising which the law
allows two papers, be otherwise
treated? We know of no other
county, other than Sullivan, that
finds it's officers confning the adv
ertising brought under their dis
posel wholly to papers of their
political faith. There is nothing
political about a sheriff sale of real
estate. 1t is business in it's entirety.
Business, politics and church are
all distinct classes of their own, and
never have they mixed we'll togeth-
er. Politics should in no way en-
ter into the proceedings of a sheriff
sale. The object of the advertising
is to make the transaction as public
as possible to bring buyers at the
sale. 1t is not the sheriff. money
that pays the bill. Why should
they take the right to use it to fur
ther their personal or political ends?
HE selection of the mediums best
suited for the locality, by moral
right, belong to the attorneys who
are working for the best interest of
their clients, or those who have to
furnish the means to pay the bills.
This is the practice that is being
carried out in most counties of late
years and it is as commendable as
it is good business practice.