Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-14

grades Of ink
| For 300 impressions or less .....,.. 10 4"
| For additional Impressions, per -
lur OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. :.-.....:--; w i'
| Per 1000 impressions, above FIRST - n
Extra stock allowance (per cent? : DC
! Extra percentage on cost of stock ~ lc
| I,xtra percentage on invoice IL "a a.,
stock is furnished by State 10 oc
| SO SO
4 careful comparison of these figures
would seemingly show the bid of MI
Davis to be 80 per cent lower than the
prices formerly paid for this work
This, it will be noted, is far from being
"approximately one half but niue
DISCREPANCIES of Ia per cent do ho'
count with Mr. Davis amid the
strenuous life of Il political campaign
As a matter of fact taking the state
work as it actually runs IN class T.
there is not Il SO per cent i'll difference
between these two sets of figures or
anything approaching it.
In order that this fact may be clear
" shown to our readers we wish to cail
attention to one significant item III hls
contract namely, For headings, top
lines. side lines or footings adjusted
to or for machine ruled blanks anu
typewriter blanks, per 1000 ems, face
measure-53 cents" This is cents
thousand more than was paid Burle'sh
e. FIvnt for this work under the price
established by the statute law OF 1880.
The significance of these figures VIII
he seen when we state that this class Oh
work constitutes more than one halt OF
all the work done in class ~. IN
other words, upon over one half OF the
class e printing Mr.. Davis is receiving
TODAY ) cents "A thousand ems more for
his composition than Burleigh & flyht
y-are maid for the same work under the
law of 1895. 1t will be seen that the
devotion Of Candidate Davis to the
great cause of economy i'll the state
printing has string to it in It's per-
sonal application. The acum'n, now
ever, which so largely recoupef MI
Davis in his specially low and losing
hid on half Of this printing, hy glVill9
him an exceptionally fat pric" Tor the
other half. Was not his own. 1t be-
men in Maine, a practical printer "i
long experience. who was at that time
IN his employ, and in practical charge
of his printing and publishing establish
rncnt Nj. Murphy had learned his
tlade in part in the Journal office; he
had worked upon the Stat" printing
r rot ONLY there but in the office Of th'
. Maine Standard, during q Democratic
| rule in Maine, and he was thoroughly
r this work, and the extent to which eacf
Y one entered into the total volume of the
Y printing. In signing as the repre-
r sentative Of Mr. Davis, his contract il
4 the private room of Governor Cobb
r Mr.. Murphy was frank to say that HI
= did not expect to get the work whc'
: he submitted his bid, and when tn
!. writer joked him upon the extra ia
Q Price, the largest which the State ha'
I paid for 20 years for the BIS item o
r the class 3 work he laushingly repiie'
o that it was necessary in a bid of tina
5 kind for his firm to have "some ancho
II to windward." 1t is very evident tina
$ in asserting. as he thus far has done j
5. his opening speeches, that he is dom
s class "B" of the state printing toda
n at 'anproXimatcly one half" of what
: was done for by Burleigh & Flynt, Nj
! Davis has entirely overlooked thi
s anchor to windWard."
n We trust that before he INDUCES j
y this loose and untenable assertio
l. again he will take some pains to loo
up the actual per centage of differenC
It between the old and new prices wit
l. special attention to this anchor" iten
N and ascertain the important part whic
lie it plays in enabling him to recoup hin
r. self on his exceedingly low biz
te on the other and less impOrtal
lie items Of his contract