The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-03-30
PAY BIG PRICE FOR CITY
ADVERTISING.

The city council Monday night again
considered the city advertising. In
explaining why the advertising COM
mittee. consisting OF Chas. Humph-
i ris, Sam Thomas and j. b. Dana,
were paying 70 cents an inch for ad-
vertfsing. while the Standard Publish
ing Co. hnd bid so cents for the city's
business. Humpbris and Thomas were
not fnir to this paper.
Tho truth about the matter is that
the city advertising was referred TO a
committee for the express purpose OF
Furnishing this paper for having crit
ictsed some action OF the city gov
ernment
Counclimeu Humphris and Thomas
openly boasted on the streets of Og-
den that they had the giving out OF
the advertising and would Fix" tho
Standard. Hearing or this boast and
learning that, Notwithstanding the
Standard had a contract with the city.
all the printing for months had been
sent to the other paper. the manager
of this paper met both Humphris and
Thomas on the street. and accused
each with Furnishing the Standard for
exercising the right OF free criticism
OF the council Both admitted the
charge and proceeded to justify their
actions
Councilman Dana, however. wanted
the advertising TO go to the lowest bid
der without regard to any criticism
made by any paper. Messrs. Humphrls
and Thomas thereupon refused to ac-
knowledge Mr. Dana as a member OF
the committee and sent the printing
away from the Standard
Mr.. Dana brought the matter up In
the council about year ago and, as
result, Mr. Humphrls called on the
Standard business manager and asked
him to make verbal bid for the city
printing. The Standard manager said
that he would refuse to make n YER
bal bid, but would make sealed bid
TO be opened in the presence of the
city council Mr.. HumphrIs wanted TO
know why the Standard would not
make verbal bid and he was inform
ed that he (HumPhris) had been tell
ing on the streets how he was going
TO do up tho Standard and how he
was going to get even with the Stand
ard for having criticised the city coun.
Gil. that he had convinced the manage
ment Of this paper that he was an enc
my OF the paper and that he did not in
tend 10 be fair or just with this paper,
II was then agreed that the Standard
Publishing company should send a
sealed bid to the city council and
that Mr., Humphris should get verbal
bid from the other paper. The other
paper bid 70 cents per inch and this
paper bid so cents per inch. When
1t was referred to Mr. Humphris' COM
mittee, and the city has been paying
20 cents an inch for city printing
ever since.
1t appears that Councilman Humph-
ris and Thomas were placed on this
special committee by the council and
mayor for the express purpose OF pun
ishing this paper for not agreeing with
the city administration on its every
, act
Councilman ]. B Dana. OF course
saw from the beginning that there
was something crooked about the
committee letting the advertising
when the bills came In every month
for 70 cents per inch. and time and
again he brought the matter before
the council and denounced the action
of the committee, but the council al
ways voted him down, but when he
resigned from the committee the coun-
ell refused to accept his resignation
! and so matters went on until last Mon
| day night. when he again demanded
that the advertising be given to the
lowest bidder. So vigorously did
Dana fight for the saving of over AZ
per cent of the expense of advertising
bills that the committee was dis
| charged and new bids called for.
Mr.. Dana says that the 40 per cent
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