The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-16
WHAT HAS THE "BUNC' DUNE!

With blatant verbosity and ASST
| nine brayings that buccaneering, poll
teal Judas, the Evening Bunc', at
| tempts to set itself up as real news
paper and vainly strives to create an
| impression that it-and 1t only-ls
needed in Walla Walla. Upon what
honest plea, or under what stretch OF
imagination. is based the Wabbly Vap-
orings of the diseased rag, none but
| the "Bunc" itself may say. NO one
| else may evolve the presumptuous ex-
cuSe
What has the Evening Bunc' done
what is it dOing-to lay claim 10
considerable treatment, or pubic pat
ronage? Can you point to one busl-
ness reason why such a miserable bit
of newspaper patchwork can honestly
plead merited existence?
Generated in the womb of ma1fcs,
born of the spirit of revenge and cradl-
ed in the laps of political parasites and
discredited curbstone politicians 1T did
not have the excuse of meeting de-
mand Or creating a legitimate field of
usefulness. No person cOnversant with
the situation but knows the "Bunc'
was foisted upon the public for the
sole purpose of attacking Senator An
keny because, as the owner of the
Union he was compelled to discnars.
trusted employee discovered betray-
ing his employers interests, selling
political secrets and, even then, under
grave charges of misappropriating po-
litical funds. The venom displayed in
it's infantile villifications of the senat-
or and his friends was that of snake
which, warmed in the bosom of phil
anthropy, turned upon its benefactor
with poisoned fangs to destroy. The
animus was known to all, the chagrin
of a treacherous servant, detected in
his treachery.
With boastful bellowings this crea-
ture of evil intent began it's career
One has but to recall the malicious in
vective. the slanderOus falsehOod, the
abusive billingsgate hurled at the An
keny people. Drunk with it's forced
license the organ of traitors and dis
hOnored. taxeaters declared it's inten-
ton of driving Ankeny from office and
exposing such awful corruption OF one
b. D. CrOcker that the erStwhile Walla
Walla man would be glad to leave the
country and take refuge in Persian
harem
But the exposures came not. The
novelty wore off and the people, firing
of listening to charges which could not
be supported. turned away Then
came the "Bunc" and it's buccaneer
crew to their proper level 1t ceased
to be terrible creature of destruc-
ton, Forthwith it became an opJccr
of charity-a beggar-an asker Of
alms-a public sponge.
Hat in hand the "Bunc" has gone
from door to door begging a pittance
that it might live. Business methods
were abandoned, honest competition
strangled. Anything to get crust
became the motto
Business men will tell you they are
placing limited advertising in the
"Bunc" because it is the only way they
can secure payment for bills due. Two
thirds of the "Bunc's' ads are traded
out before the ads are published. The
other third are dead" ads or those
taken for a price which no real news
paper would consider. 1t is a starve-
ling. supported for the moment by
| charity and by the efforts of those who
must have an organ to push forward
| their rotten claims to further pOlit1ca,
preferment and continued feeding at
| the public crib.
Yet this is the pitiful mendicant that
| would have you believe The Statesman
the long established newspaper which
the "Bunc' was to put out of business
in three months-is going broke" and
is ''all in. This is the miserable sup
] plcant which tells you a live newspa
per, adopting more modern methods,
is a disgrace to Walla Walla 1t is
this lying rag that declares The States
man, long your family paper, has no
| right to the field it has so ably and
| honestly filled as fearless vendor Of
live news-an honest. successful BUSH
ness enterprise. wearing no mans col
| lar, asking no mans charity.
| Too cowardly to come out into the
! open and fight, the Evening Bunc"
takes refuge behind anonymous COM
| munications written by it's own en-
ployes and signed with pseudoTsyms
designed to mislead innocent readers.
Under such cover it brazenly demands
that The Statesman retire to leave
the field to the "Bunc's" grafters and
spoilsmen.
Take into consideration the men be-
hind the "Bunc" Recall its avowed
purpose of invading a field already
filled satisfactorily-ask yourself what
it has ever done to merit recognition,
or commercial patronage, other than TO
put forward the claims Of political pi-
; rates. to demand backsheesh to black
mail and to betray.
Then give it the contempt its servil-
ity and cowardice deserves.