The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-07-19
PUBLISHED WITH No Apology.

PUBLISHED WITH NO APOLOGY.
The account rendered by The Wiz.
ginian against the city in the sum Of
$3.50 for the publication Of the
proclamation anent the clos
ing of the saloons on the last special
election day, May 2Sth, referred back
by the council at the previous meet
ing for correction, was brought up
tuesday evening Though the reading
OF communication IRON the man.
agement OF the paper in which it
was stated the work was performed
at the request and upon the order OF
mayor Murphy, and in which the
Was maze That the space
OCCUPIED, 80 inches III two issues o.
the daily and in one Issue OF the
weekly, was the space specified in the
order, and that prlce charged, rs
cents per inch, was the same charge
made to business men OF the city for
display advertising.
At the conclusion OF the reading OF
the communication the mayor arose
and stated that he ordered such pub
LEGATION, and that he had no apologies
tooffer to anyone; that he asked Mr..
foirier, former city attorney, If it
made any difference in which news
paper such proclamation was pub
lished and had been informed it did
not; that there was not time to have
1t published in the Enterprise prior
to election, and he had it put in The
Virginian.
AS we stated last week, the amount
OF the account is not of great mo-
ment to us, particularly, inasmuch as
our charge for the legal publication
of the mayors proclamation under
our contract with the city would have
been $1.20, the rate for city publish
ing this year being the same as in
1911 and that being the amount of
our bill for the publication OF the
mayors proclamation to the saloon
keepers at the time of the first re-
call election in September last. But
we do feel that, in consideration OF
the fact that the Enterprise is under
bond for the doing Of the city pub
fishing for the present year, at a rate,
the work should have come to the
Enterprise had it been publish
ed In this paper the bill therefor
would have been $l.20 instead OF
$3.50; and as to the statement that
there was not time to have the pub
LEGATION made in the Enterprise we
will submit that Mr.. Murphy never
asked the Enterprise whether or not
1t was too late for such a notice to
appear in its issue Of May "a, the
date on which first publication was
made in The Virginian, and that II
appeared in the Daily Virginian sew
eral hours before the issue of the En-
terprise for that date was on the
press. And we fear no contradiction
when we state that the publication
could have been made in the Enter
prise OF May oath had it been brought
to us at the same time it was taken
to The Virginian
The Enterprise has no personal
quarrel with Mr.. Murphy or with
anyone else in this matter, but we do
not believe in being the goat" 1t is
not the amount of the account but
the principle for which we are stick
ing, and We believe that had Mayor
Murphy contract with anyone for
the furnishing Of certain material,
and was under bond for the faithful
performance Of the work, he would
feel likewise. And he may take this
in any spirit he may see fit, for, like
himself, we have no apologies to Of
fer in the premises; what we have
said in the matter has been strictly
right, and been said so plainly that
child can understand-and we be-
lieve none who read may need an in
ternrater