Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-11-24
POST ACCUSED Of
RECEIVING $4,000
IN BOGUS MAN
Newspaper Said to Have Printed
Election "Ads" in Sham
Sunday Edition.

In the NelT York American today the
Evening Post, of New York city, is
charged with having collected $4,000
from New York city for election adj
vertisements published in two bogus
Sunday issues. $
The mos respectable newspaper in
the world" according to the American,
has stopped, to one of the owest forms
of graft"
The Evening Post is opposed to Sun
day papers, and never issues a Sunday
edition. In none of it's weekly issues,
the American says, did it ever mention
that it had published a Sunday paper.
Yet, on Sunday. october 9, and Sun
day. october Is, 1910, it printed, so the
American AYERS, and William j. Patti
son. publisher of the Evening Post,
admits. editions containing more than
four pages of city advertisements at
forty cents a line.
These editions, acordikg to the
American C'with the exception OF a
few columns, contain the same reading
matter that was contained in the Sat
urday editions precedir go, were not
intended for circulation, were looked
upon in the Evening Post office as a
Joke" and were issued "only for the
sake of obtaining money from the city
treasury"
James ]. Waterson. of SO West
Ninety-f1rst street, New York, the
American says, sent a letter to Mayor
Gaynor asking him to bring suit
against the Evening Post FOR the recov-
cry of every cent of the money thus
f%raudulently obtained"
When asked if he ha any comment
to make, Mayor Gaynor, according tc
the American, said:
Now, don't ask me about it. 1t only
adds to the uncomfortable feeling which
I have had for years, that those who
/, profess all the time to be better thar
the rest of us are seldom as good as the
worst of us"
The mayor admitted, the American
asserts, tina he had taken steps tt
recover the money.
The only defense to be offered, say
/. the American. is that the Board o
% Elections required the appearance o
the advertisements on the day befor
p registry day, which in this instanc
. was Monday. Since Sunday is a lega
holiday it is asserted that Saturda,
! is the day upon which the advertise
ments should have been run.
Ending it's alleged expose, the NeS
York American says:
This is the first time that n news
paper was ever caught making profit
without circulation" II .
1.-THE Evening Post periodically take
9 great credit to itself for not PUBLISHING
a Sunday newspaper. 1t rejoices tina
it is not like other newspapers. Othe
4 newspapers ought to be
j When Mr.. Pattison, the Evening Pos
publisher, was seen today by an Eve
g ming STAR reporter he made the fol
: lowing statement:
1.-THE Evening Post did not solici
this advertising. 1t came under tn
: direction of the Board of Election l
a the conformity of the law g~overnin
the advertising of registration an
S election places"
When asked whether he had oni
! printed a few copies of the paper an
Y whether or not two Issues had bee
printed he made the following remark
my recollection Is that we only pull
u iished one Sunday issue. and that sew
eral thousand copies were distributed
and that before the Evening Post &c