The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-08-28
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that vast array with which the bunt
started it's contest" to deceive thu
public The padding of votes has beer
shown to a certainty, Miss Flora Cum.
mings of Wallula, having been boosted
to the top of the list, when the young
lady has most emphatically announced
that she will have nothing to do with
the contest. Miss Hazel Jennings, who
has been in Seattle since the opening
of the contest. is credited with several
thousand votes when she probably
does not know her name is appearing
stances that show conclusively the
tactics employed by the bunc gang
in order to give the contest the copy
righted" appearance claimed for 1t
when it was launched.
| Dear Contestants" writes the bunt.
manager, you are making valiant
effort to stem the tide of public Opin-
| ion, set in motion by the expose of
| The Evening Statesman, but we have
! hopes that the contest will turn out
as per schedule. We are padding the
vote daily in order to make a showing,
and must confess that your efforts for
| the grand prizes have not been all we
| had hoped for when your names We're
taken from the city directory. How
| ever. if you can succeed in turning in
portion of the back money due us on
comings along the line of securing re-
newals and new subscribers will be
overlooked.
We are not yet quite certain who
will win the auto. for we are having
difficulty in choosing our favorite.
| However, an effort is being made to
have every young lady in the contest
reach first place at least once, and
possibly twice before the grand finale.
We would urge upon you the necessity
of going after some of those dead
head" people who nave been reading
| every time you part one of them from
some of his coin, we will give you an
additional bonus of $4,000 votes. This
is confidential. though, and we do not
want The Statesman to get wise. 1t
is no easy matter to separate some
people from their coin, and in asking
you to do it, we realize fully what you
are up against. Consequently we have
made this most magnanimous and un-
precedented offer of big bonus,
which. however, will be in effect only
| until midnight tonight We need the
| money.
Relative to the request you have
| made that your name be eliminated
| from our contest, we would most re-
| spectfully present the fact that yOu
| have been nominated by your friends
| and they would be sorely disappointed
| to lost the votes they have worked SO
hard to secure for you, to say nothing
| of the money expended for subscrip-
tons Do not be discouraged because
you are several thousand votes behind
there is always a chance for you
with our improved and copyrighted
OIL of no
be one of our favorites, so it behooves
you to keep on Studying around in
search of bunc subscribers who owe
u sfor three or four years subscrip-
ton
Within week or so we will have
determined our favorites and private
bulletins will be mailed those who win
our royal favor. The Statesman thinks
it has hunch as to how we are going
to close this contest, but those fellows
have yet another think coming Jus,
be busy in your campaign for votes
} and renewals, and suddenly you'll
l be riding around town in the magnifi
cent Maxwell touring car that will be
: awarded on condition you turn it bach
: to US for a small stipend.
+. S.Whatever you do, don't tip any
} of this dope to The Statesman or the
! Wallula Gateway, for that might spoi
, Your chances of becoming one of the
managers favorites"
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