The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-01-25

@..<...' WINDY BLAST
Globe Casts a Conniption Fit
Because T. Fails to Land !.
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TRADE Of Scurrilous Abuse Hurled
at the County Commits
sioners and Successful
Bidders.

sioners and Successful
Bidders.
The Globe last week devoted the
greater part of it's space to airing
it's pitiful and asinine opinion OF the
county commissioners and the
papers to whom the contract for the
county printing was awarded, be-
cause it's bid for this work was
turned down.
The publisher of the Globe SEEM
cd perfectly satisfied to enter into the
arrangement regarding the county
printing. that has prevailed tor
some years. until some of the pub
fishers objected that the Globe and
Wilmont Tribune were not legal
publications. As to the Tribune's
standing there is no question, and
as to the Globe the case against it
seems equally clear. A. year ago
the publisher of the Globe refrained
from bidding for the county print
ing for the reason, which he freely
admitted to his fellow publishers,
that it was not q legal paper. 1t.
did not have the required 240 SUBJ
scribers. :
The defect referred to could
hardly within the realm of
probabilities have been remedied
in time to make it a legal paper at
this stime.sasI Iha@ gituation awell
known to the other publishers, and,
we believe, to most OF the County
Commissioners, This being the
case the Com missoners did the only
thing they could do, and gave the
work to papers of whose validity
there is no question. They could
not afford to jeopardize the interests
of the county by doing otherwise.
The Globe makes much of the
alleged saving that would have re-
suited from accepting it's bid. There
are approximately 5000 tax payers
in Mobiles County, which has an
valuation of over $8, 500,-
600. The saving would be about 10
cents per capita for each tax payer
or about 4 cents, two 2 cent stamps,
on each $1,000 of assessed valuation.
1t is an insult to the public spirit of
the people Of the county to contend
that for the saving of such a pit
tance to each of them they would
be- willing to forgo the wide circula-
tion now given the county board
proceedings and other important
matters of general interest. The
Com missioners adopted the view
that as the law provides for the
of these matters, pub
licity was the end sought, and on
that score the bid of the seven
papers offered better value than
that of the two obscure publica
lions of doubtful legality. The
county is getting service in seven
papers at the price of one, and this
price is the same as that paid by
private citizens everywhere for
ike service, viz: legal rate.
None Of the legal papers of the
80 far as the Advance is
.ware, was willing to do the work
'or less than the legal rate. This
oeing the case the tax payers are
Indebted to the iberality of the
publishers for consenting to the
present arrangement, which serves
Ill parts of the county very we'll.
The arrangement has given uni
7ersal satisfaction, but it was not to
be- expected that disappointed
olackguard who eviuces degree Of
vindictiveness that would |
10 credit to his sulphuric majesty, |
would lose an opportunity to vent
ts malice. The Globe is an ex-
pert at playing ths martyr and
seems to hope that by arousing a
little charitable sympathy it's pre-
,arious existence may be pro-
longed.