The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-10-17
D OCT. ", 1919

er and securing representation
st :uc count. seat, and says:
"Now dear readers, there is DO
fight between the Leader and
the Benedict Banner, at least not
in behalf of the Banner and wv
see no reason why the Leader
should have any against us. True
We may not agree on certain
things, that is nothing more than
natural, and especially so when
our interests conflict as in this
ease. We are interested in north
en Mclean and the Leader in
Washburn and southern Mclean
county.
1.-The Leader acknowledges that
we are entitled to some Of the
ttcounty pie" and infers that we
should have a generous slice. We
understand the position in which
the Leader is placed. 1t is an
official paper and is compelled to
stick, it is and always has been
one of the favored ones who have
been allowed to nibble at the
country crib" it is the voice of
Washburn and the mouthpiece Of
the county officials. We don't
hold this against the Leader at
all; not a bit of it, it is entitled
to just a little the most, it is
the oldest paper in the county
and the only one at the county
seat. And why should it not re-
ceive pay for its services? No
man publishes a newspaper for
honor Or pleasure.
Our object in this article and
the clipping from the Leader is to
show you where the Leader gets
in It's work. Note how nicely the
editor conceeds the fact that We
are entitled to something good
how nicely they pat the Banner.
On account Of the lack Of space
We are compelled to leave a part
of this article out this week. II
you are interested read it and
keep thi copy to refer to next
week when the remainder will
be Banner.
We want to say to the Ban
ner that the Banner and the
Leader are pretty well agreed,
only we have different ways OF
expressing ourselves. We have
no fight with the Banner or with
any other paper in the
county that voices the interests o
the taxpayers. About the only
statement that the Banner makes
that We wish to disagree with is
their statement that hte Leader
is the "mouthpiece Of the county
officials" and that we r allowed
special privileges at the county
crib" for our services. This
statement is entirely wrong and
unwarranted. The Leader is be-
ing punished continuously by the
"puah" at the court house (by
those that have been pushing"
up the taxes for the past four
or five yeaw) and We have been
receiving no favors in the way of
county patronage except such as
the law specifically says that a
paper at the county seat shall
have. The Leader was cut out Of
the county commissioners pro-
ceedings four years ago and was
only restored to favor by the en-
actment Of legislation which com
PEELED the publication of commits
sioners proceedings in at least
Z. one paper published at the coun-
ty seat and the Leader being
only paper published at the count
seat there was no choice and the
proceedings Of the county board
fell to us by virtue of law not Of
choice. W. persisted in our stand.
for the taxpayers and continued
complaining Of extravaganza and
high taxes and as an additional
punishment the annual tax list
was taken away from the Gus
tomary and logical place Of
publishing it--at the county seat
and as a consequence for the
past years has been given to out
ride papers. So the Banner will
readily see that the Leader is
not receiving any special favors