The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-07-14

The county roads are getting might,
dusty.
Are you asking the candidates whe-
Their they are. for or against the sal
Don? That is the great question this
year. and it is causing more annoyanc
to some of the candidates than they
care to admit.The saloon issue is go
/ ing to be one of the greatest issues
of the campaign.
The new Vancouver interurban is
completed to SuInas. according to the
News. and trains VIII be running with
III week or SO.
During the past two years the Be
then papers in Bellingham have fire.
quently made scare head announce
ments that the Herald was grating
on the county printing. The Herald
had gotten the printing away from
the American by offering to do it Tor
nothing. The American, sore, charg-
ed and recharged that the Herald
in collision with county officials was
really charging and receiving hun
dreds OF dollars. Frankly the Tri-
bune never believed the charges be-
cause it realized the source, Yet some
people did, and last week the Pomona
grange called for an investigation of
the Americans charges by grand
jury.
The Herald gets off on the wrong
foot once in a while. AS for instan-
&c, at the present time it is fighting
our friend Bixby. But on the whole
We believe it is an honest publication.
working for the best interests OF
Whatcom county, and though in a
measure it enters into competition
with the Tribune, We believe that
in justice to it as well as to our
readers We should say SO. Its state
ment which the management explains
wasnt given before because the charge S
until now have been made by ire
sponsible parties. We believe is a
sufficient answer to all charges. YET
we dare say the Herald will not OBJ
ject to grand jury investigation for
II has nothing to fear from it, and
the American will again be proven
''yellower than yellow if the Her.
aids statement as published is cor
rect. 1t says in part
For the past three years the county
has been more fortunate in the matter
of its printing than in any other line
of expense. If il had been as fortu-
nate in everything else its repositories
would be bullying with gold and its
debts would be paid. Since July !.
1907, just three years ago. The Herald
has received from the county. all
told, for publication of notices just
S3S9, and every dollar of this has
h,a
terms of its contract with the county,
as explained below. If this is graft
it is a mighty small graft for big
newspaper to be engaged in; and IT,
after reading what follows. anyone be-
leves the charges preferred by The
lieraid's puny rivals, he does 50 be-
cause he has prejudice which an APP
peal to his common sense will not re-
move.
The Herald's free bids and contracts
based upon Them have been persis-
tently garbled and misre presented
and the amount which The Herald has
received for publications have like
wise been grossly and wilfully exag-
gerated.
The Fairhaven Publishing company
never proposed to carry county official
publcatlons in both the World Herald
and the Daily Herald. In every con-
tract ii has teen plainly stipulated
that publications may be made in
citHci the uallN or weekly edition.
the county to designate in each case
which paper should be used. In many
cases by order mott ccs have been rur
III both papers and in such cases the
publication has been charged for one
paper.
Instead of $500. as the American
has persistently stated. The total
amount paid The Herald for such pub
hcations printed in both papers has
been only $3.50 since July j. 1907. the
cate OF the first free contract.
Inc case is precisely parallel to
tnat OF the American Printing COM
pahy with reference to the city print
ing. That company entered into con
tract II DC the City printing free in
Inc Reveille, but has rendered several
hiiis ana received pay for publications
ID the american which We're not re-
CURED by law-simply given to them
Tor the cake of additional publicity.
Just as the county notices have been
published at times in both The Herald
and World-Herald. on January 6,
, 1909, the American Printing COMPANY
presented bill for SIS for publishing
two-iRch notice only one time in the
American.
If the members of the Grange take
seriously this cry of graft" regarding
the expenditure of county funds for
such additional publicity not required
by law let them have the grand Jury
American Printing company in No
vember, 1908, for publishing the notice
of nominations, In order to secure
wider publicity for the notice of the
nominations for the general election
the county auditor ordered il published
in The Herald. the World-Herald and
the American. Every legal require
ment would have been met by It's
publication in the Daily Herald, which
would not have cost the county one
cent. As = matter of fact this notice
was never published III two news
papers until 1906. 1t is a fact thai
the American Printing company has
iecelved more county money fuI
publicati ons that were not required BY
law than the total amount Of all publ.
cations charged for by The Herald
during The past three years
Publication of certain notices in
both daily and weekly editions /.
proper and just. Few reCple in the
towns of the county ever see a copy NJ
The weekly, yet they are just as much