Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-04-03
Two PAPERS CONTROLLED BY
SAME PARTIES At VARIANCE
The Daily Oiympian is a Strong AdvO-
cate of County Appropriation for
Portland Exposition, While the
Aberdeen BuIIetiOn is Opposed,
Although Both Papers Belong to
Same People.

When doctors disagree who shall de-
eide? The aberdeen Bulletin and the
Daily Olympan are published by the
Western Publishing Co., II. d. Craw.
ford, president, and Chas. F. Cork, sec.
retary, and are presumably under one
management, yet, while the Bulletin is
fighting an appropriation by Cheha,is
county for an exhibit at the Lewis and
Clark exposition, the Olympian is work
ing overtime in an effort to convince ths
commiss ioners of Thurston county that
justice to that county demands that it be
suitably represented at the exposition,
and that the only equitable way to do is
to appropriate public money for the pur-
pose. The following extract, from the
Olympian of March 80, will show the
attitude of the Thur.ton county end of
the Western Publishing Co.:
"The attention that has been directed
to the matter Of rhurston county's pro-
posed exhibit at the Lewis and Clark
fair at Portland by reason of the action,
or lack OF it, OF the county commissioners
in the matter OF an appropriation, was a
general matter of conversation among
the business men Of the city yesterday.
Almost without exception the business
men agree that it is imperative that this
county's showing at the exposition must
be the best that can be collected and
that it is but justice that property and
business interests of the county share
equally in the expense necessary to
make such an exhibit a success. AS all
will share equally in the benefits derived,
such contention appears to be justified.
''It was pointed out that the condi-
tional appropriation proposed by the
commissioners amounts to no more than
gate and that even this beggarly amount
ing. preserving. transporting and main.
tanning the exhibit.
"Should the commissioners see fit to
make an adequate appropriations the
amount per capita of the county's popu-
lation would be mere pittance, where
as if the burden OF finding the wavs and
means to make proper exhibit, and one
that will be OF ben ,fit to the county,
falls on the Chamber of Commerce the
money necessary would have to come
from the pockets of the merchants and
business men Of Olympia alone. While
Olympia will benefit equally with all
parts Of the county from the advertise
ment SUI IN an exhibit would give us, it is
unjust that the entire burden Of expense
should fall on few individuals.
"No one has yet come forward to offer
an explanation of the recent act Of the
board, but in spite OF adverse comment
no one is as yet willing to believe that
the commissioners will willingly and
knowingly y thwart the wishes of the COM
munity whose servants they are"
On the other hand, the Chehalis coun.
ty end of this facile company opposes
the very idea OF such an appropriation,
and omits no opportunity to defeat all
efforts in that direction. The following
squib from the Bulletin of March "a, is q
sample of its tone:
1.-THE fact is the money can be spent
to much better advantage especially In
new sections like Grays Harbor and
Chehalis county,"
The readers of both these estimable
journals are apt to become muddled on
this subject, and prone to wonder which
Of them is deliberately working against
the best interests Of its county.
Is it possible that this company, hav-
ing greater interest in Thurston county
than in Chehalis, has directed the Aber.
deem branch to prevent Chehalis coun-
ty exhibit, in order that Thurston county
may reap larger benefits from new immi-
grafton induced by it's exhibit at the ex.
position? The question is too deep for
US.