The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-08-05
CHIEF CONTEST
MANAGED CALLED
TO THE RESCUE
CONTINUED From Page One.)

] ION the square, and that $500 reward
is to be saved, it is up to someone to
give satisfactory answer. Miss Eckel-
brett was being supported by many of
the leading residents, who are highly
indignant because of her disqualifi-
cation. and those who have already
assisted her to secure votes are con-
siderng ways and means to secure
! value received for the outlay of cash
representing her 10000 votes.
Anyone with half an eye can see
that the thing is ION the square" as
far as padding the list is concerned.
The young ladies whose names are in
the list are fairly turning the old town
secure votes; the fact that nine tenths
of them are out of the city and know
nothing of the contest does not, APP
parently, prevent them from working,
and the success of the sO-called con-
test will be surpassed only by the
number of inaccuracies to be found in
the list of bonafide contestants.
1t is refreshing to + ote in the col
umns of the bunc that signed state
ments could be secured from men who
take prominent part in the affairs of
The northwest, to the effect that the
n~t &c hn ~ n
further deceive the public. 1t won't
work however, and The Statesman,
right off the bat desires to claim that
reward. If the entry of young ladies
who are opposed to the contest; the
elimination of young lady who had
secured 10000 votes; the quotation of
the mayor, when he never mentioned
the bunc's contest in his annual mes
sage, are not proofs of the shady
methods employed by the bunc man
ager in the endeavor to swell his sub
scription list with a few names, The
the $500 reward to the Woman's Park
club
Mrs. b. H. Barger whose daughter,
Eva, has been forced into the con-
test, in speaking of the affair last night
to a friend. said her daughter had
been in Helix, Ore, for several weeks
past and knew nothing of the so-called
contest. She was highly indignant
that paper should take such liberties
with the name of her daughter, and
indicated that she would demand the
elimination of the name of Miss Eva
Barger from the "bonafide" list
Throughout the city the feeling is the
same. and it is therefore nothing short
of amusing to many to have the bunc
come out each evening and tell, in big
black headlines, how hard the fair
| ones are struggling to gain a prize
| worth few paltry dollars, when the
| majority of them are out of the city,
J basking in the sunshine and cool
| breezes of seaside and mountain re-
sorts. with bunc cdptest farthest
from their consideration.
Sure, It's Square"
| There's not the slightest doubt in
| the mind of anyone-(not &C .Mainted
with the bunc manager)-that the
contest is on the square. But those who
| are conversant with that persons
system of pulling political wires. with
his underhanded methods in other
| walks of life: with his overbearing anG
dictative disposition will never feel
satisfied with a simple statement in
the columns Of the bunc to the effect
| that everything is all right. There is
an old saying that gees something like
| this: You can fool all of the people
! half of the time, and you can fool
| half of the people all of the time: but
when you undertake to fool all of the
| people all of the tine. just make up
| your mind. you're eff on the wrong
foot
That applies quite nicely to the
care-worn manager of the buncoing
bunc down the street. The people of
Walla Walla have had the wool
pulled from their eyes during the past
| few days, and the talk of the town is
the fraud perpetrated. not only upon
the public, but upon the so-called con-
testants themselves. in the name of a
| grand. brilliant. original and copy
, righted' contest BY the way that
''copyrighted' line was left out last
night to make room for the introduce
! tory to the mayors message. Has the
time limit expired? If so, take a dollar
out of the Statesman's five hundred
and renew it. 1t would be a shame to
| have anyone else get hold of such a
! dazzling success.
The Seaside" contest conducted
several years ago by the bunc will not
| be in it with this latest fizzle al