The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-09-15

Il
intended to put some lie INTO the
contest" but those young ladies who
have worked hard are fully alive TO
the difficulties of securing subscribers
to the boiler-plate sheet, and long ago
gave up hope of getting more than
months subscription from any enc
nerson. No wonder the contest mana
gers were so liberal in the offer of
votes with each yearly subscription
Before the end of the copyrighted"
fizzle the public may expect the an
nouncement that the auto Will be
awarded the first contestant securing
a yearly subscription.
Contestants can rest assured that
they will be given proper credit and
votes for all subscriptions sent to me
offices between now and Saturday. IS
the statement of the bunc manager,
who has at last taken cogniZance Of
public sentiment which is to TIE eff
feet that the young ladies are the vic
Tins of crooked work and jobbery Of
every kind in connection with The
count. But the votes will be placei in
the ballot box at once and not counted
until the finale, and by that method
the contestants" will never know
n |, pppGiJ
not It's a clever scheme, and wholly
in keeping with other details Of the
shady contst, but there are too many
wise ones in the community, and the
stunt will fail
Too Bad; Too Bad.
For there will be some wounded,
writes the representative of the Nortn-
western Circulation company with the
closed offices in Aberdeen, S. d. mo
one regrets more than the bunc that
everybody cannot get a prize. Those
who have made the campaign (an1 they
are few surely ought to be cOmpen-
stated, and it is with this in mini that
all candidates not winning prizes will
be paid five per cent. of the money
they have turned H. My, isn't hat
the magnanimous offer? The bunc
knows full we'll that those
who have made the campaign" are
so few that the grand prizes" Will nor
all be spoken for. and no payment Of
five per cent of the money turned in
will be necessary. In all of the list Of
50 names. it is doubtful if more tlan
six or eight can be found who are real
~ taking an interest in the fasco,
though the bunc manager and his
bunch of cheap 1ieutenants are doing
everything in their powerful inject life
into the event for the closing DAYS.
In selecting the list of names, some
one, presumably a representative Of
the Northwestern Circulation company
with the closed offices in Aberdeen, S.
D., got off wrong, and. being too lazy
to make a canvass to determine what
young ladies would take an interest
in the basement, found an old city di-
rectory, and forthwith published z
list of 200 or 300 names that were en-
tirely out of date. Many of thu young
ladies placed in nomination "hy their
friends" had married and moved from
the city; others had died while the
great majority We're out of the city on
their summer vacations, and haze not
yet returned
That start was enough to queer
anything in the nature of a copy
righted contest" and it did not fai!
with the bunc's latest game. Votes
have been padded from day tC day,
and those who have taken absolutely
10 part in the affair are now Credited
with thousands of votes. One instance,
in particular was noted by The States
Of eliminating the name merely
it to throw the wise ones off
the scent Stella Laland whose name
is given as stella LaLande,'' is cred
tied with 1S5,260 votes, after she has
requested that her name be
taken from the list. She is not a sub
scriber of the disreputable ra3, and
does not feel at all honored thai the
bunc manager has deemed it advisable
BILE to disregard her wishes and in
structions as to the use of her name.
But that is the object in copy
righting'' the big fzzle that IS to
create such a sensational finale.
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