The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1908-06-20

CidC CHe people SnOulQ De allowed CO IIldke Cileh
own laws. A study of the acts of the last con-
gress will be sufficient to show why democracy is
necessity in the next congressional session.
S~S
Numerous inquiries have been made at the Ex-
aminer office this week regarding the county print
ing case, wherein the Index secured an injunction
against the board of county commissioners and
The Colville Examiner restraining them from en-
terng upon the performance of the county printing
contract. Many people have expressed the hope
that the commissioners would appeal the case,
while others have urged the Examiner to continue
the case.
So far as the Examiner is concerned, no appeal
will be made. If newspaper can not secure the
county printing at the lowest bid there are other
actions more important than legal appeal, and
these actions can better be taken by the public
than by the Examiner. If the republican party
has men in office who allow private gain to inter-
fere with public good, no newspaper can expect to
do county work unless it pays commission to the
officer who let's it, and this the Examiner refuses
to do. Work at the prices bid by the Examiner is
not particularly profitable and would contain no
profit at all if legal appeal had to be made to
secure it. The commissioners undoubtedly have
good reasons for an appeal in order to save the
county money on it's printing, but owing to the
length of time it takes the supreme court to hear
a case, and owing to the refusal of the auditors
office to furnish information to the commissioners
or the county attorney, it is doubtful if such an
issue would pay The Savage-J -Jesseph-Index Com
pany has secured the printing and will probably
keed it as long as the people allow it. If for any
reason this fall the voters of this county should de-
eide that the county auditor or his deputy should
not also be in the job printing business then the
Examiner may perhaps put in a bid for the county
printing next year. But until the auditors office is
made separate from that of the Statesman-Index
office, the Examiner can not logically make any
claim for the county printing.
All newspapers in the county should be on equal
footing in matters of the county printing. The Ex-
amner is in no worse position than the newspapers
outside of Colvle, for none of them receive any
thing from the auditor. Some of them evidently
like it, for they are willing to support the same
men for the auditors office this fall If the defeat
of L. E. Jesseph for auditor is made the result of
the recent Savage-Jesseph-Index fight to secure
the county printing at big profit, such things
may not occur again. If l.. E. Jesseph is elected,
Mr.. Savage will remain in control of the situation
as deputy and the Index will undoubtedly be
able to purchase some much-needed equipment.
The decision is with the voters on clear-cut ques-
tion
The public debt of the United States increased
during May $11 H. 379 and the cash in the treas
ury decreased $10 $685. 49, while the efforts of the
republican majority (of SOY to maintain policy of
greater economy were frustrated by an obstructive
and recalcitrant minority" according to Congress-
man James A. Tawney. The appropriations of
the congress just adjourned reached the triaing
sum of $780, 681 1888 than the entire estimated
revenues of the government In billion dollar
country nobody cares for little matter like this,
but it is we'll to know and remember who is to
blame for the hard times and high taxes
By announcing the pardon of Caleb Powers and
James Howard, Governor Wilson has closed the
last chapter in one of the most noted criminal
cases in the history of Kentucky in which people
all over the United States have shown their inter-
est by petitions for pardon In the closing days of
January, eight years ago. while the contest of Will
lam Goebel for the gubernatorial seat occupied by
Governor Taylor was being held, Goebel was shot,
dying later from the wound The shot was be-
ieved to have come from half open window of
the secretary of states Office and as Caleb Powers
was then filling that office, suspicion was at once
directed toward him, and his arrest followed. Four
times has Powers been put on trial for his life on
the charge of completely in the murder, the first
three trials resulting in conviction and sentence,
death being the penalty in two trials.
The Washington Democrat is the only strictly
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authority all state matters of interest to voters
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