The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-17
LORT, THE MIGHTY.

It's readers with anything that
has to do with the little even
Ing dodger on Second street :
= and its blowhard promulgator, .
but an article printed in the
dodger last evening entitled
y Remarkable Success of Dodger,"
y causes the Statesman to make
rev comments on the same.
In its article last evening the
y dodger blows off steam at a
y great rate-says it is the only
y paper in the city that has any
y prestige, circulation, ETC., etc.
y 1t also does not forget to slur
y the other city papers.
Such talk as the above is an
y old stunt with the wonderful
y man who directs the dodger
y while the sack holds out. 1t is
y something he has pulled off for
years-in fact, it is his main
y stock in trade. He peddles his
y hot air at this time to bolster
y up the victims who are putting
y up the money to run the dodger.
y With failure to keep the latter
y hypnOtised all would be lost.
y The greater his success in this
y line the longer the dodgers
y life; the longer Lort holds his
y job. And a life of tear-down,
y trickery, political excitement,
y with no good end in view and
y with some one handy to put up
y the money to keep things NOV
y ing is all Lort asks. What
y nuisance he might prove to the
y community never bothers Lort.
y When Lort isn't busy with
y other foolish things he talks
y himself into the belief that he :
y is a great newspaperman. But :
y practical local newspaper men
y well know that he is miles away
from being that. They
y know that all the time he <
y was managing the Union, with
y everything in his favor, that :
y papers monthly deficit ran into <
y the hundreds And because such <
y is true is the main reason why <
y LOrt lost good job notwith- <
y standing all things to the con- <
y trary. In the publishing bust :
y ness Lort is playing his last <
y card in this city. The thing he
y calls newspaper has no legiti- <
y mate field and therefore must <
y prove an expense to those fool <
y ish enough to publish it. This <
y is the history of every third <
y daily paper published in two <
y newspaper town. Lort with his <
y lightweight ideas, expanded <
y chest, head full of vanity, etc., <
= ETC., may not know this but it <
y is the truth nevertheless. Lort's <
. vanity is the limit. An idea Of <
= it: He says in his dodger that <
= he proposes to act literally 4
y with Senator Ankeny. Ye gods <
y and little fishes! Isn't such talk <
= from Lort, the limit? With <
. the mighty and sleepless Lort (
y on his trail how our worthy and <
y respected senator must tremble. (
y OF his advertising in the (
= dodger, Lort says that he gets 4
= no business from foreign adj <
= vertisers. Sure, Lort gets no 4
= business from this source. For 4
= eign advertisers are wise. Little 4
= upstart newspapers Of I'M (
= known reputation do not get 4
= their business. They use only 4
= newspapers of established cir 4
= culation like the Statesman 4
= paying good rate for their 4
= space, too. While on this SUBJ 4
= ject of advertising it might be 4
= said that Lort was the first pub I
= Usher in Walla Walla to copy 4
= without instructions to do so all 4
= the professional cards appearing 4
= in the city directory and to run 4
= them in his newspaper free of 4
= charge. But in doing such 4
= thing Lort deceives no one SO 4
= badly as he does himself 4