The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-03-13
THE END OF OUR SUBSCRIPTION
VOTING CONTEST
from Daily of March 7th:

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From Daily of March 7th:
Tonight at nine o'clock the Ban
ners voting contest will have come
to a close.
1t gives us great pleasure to say
that its management has been In ev-
cry way pleasant, agreeable and prof
| liable. -. ~
1t was, put on at a time when conf
dence had not been fully restored in
financial circles and the whole coun-
try was in state of more or less I'M
certainty; at time when the average
citizen felt like boarding his little
earnings to tide him over the rainy
day" that everybody seemed to be an
ticipating in a more or less degree.
1t was at time when we had just
raised the price of the subscription Of
our weekly paper from one dollar to
one dollar and half per annum.
which was met with some dissatis-
faction in some quarters, and this OBJ
lection had to be overcome.
To put on a contest involving the
expenditure of something over twelve
hundred dollars In prizes and commits
sions in the face of conditions as
above enumerated, was, we confess.
AN experiment that we entered upon
with some hesitation and misgivings,
but we are more than glad to say
that the success of the undertaking
has more than met our most sanguine
expectations.
/ The management of the contest was
left entirely in the hands of Mr.. B. G.
Owen and Mr.. Thomas A. Strayer.
Both gentlemen were entire stran-
gers to us and to those entering into
the contest, hence they could have no
bias in favor of the one or prejudice
against the other, and could have no
other motive than to conduct a fair
contest.
And that was the only injunction
we placed upon them-that every
vote cast should be counted and
counted as it was cast.
We feel that our injunction has
been strictly complied with, and
while it has been conducted with af
lection and favor this affection and
favor has been shown to all alike.
Not a dollar has been taken in ex-
cept on legitimate, bona fide subscrip-
tions-either on paid-in-advance or
past due subscriptions.
The remotest suggestion of tips"
or the giving of one the advantage of
another in any manner, shape or form
have not been permitted or tolerated
for a minute, and Messrs. Owen and
Strayer leave Ocala with absolutely
clean hands and clear consciences.
We take great pleasure in com
mending them as clean, upright, high
minded, heightened, honorable gentle
men.
1t is with more than ordinary pleas
ure that we say that no particle of ir
ritation or ill-feeling has entered into
the contest, and that those engaged
in it have felt from the beginning
that it was being conducted with rig
i'd, absolute fairness.
We take this method of thanking
one and all for the good will shown
throughout, and for the new friends
the paper has made.
We have added several hundred
names to our subscription books, and
we hope that they will remain with
us as long as some of our old-time
friends have done, who have been
with US since the paper was started
forty eight years ago. We hope that
our relations will always be pleasant,
and that by directing our efforts in
the same channels we shall all grow
prosperous together.
In closing we can true-heartedly
say in the language of ex-President
Roosevelt that we are "dee-lighted."
Mr.. and Mrs. Morton Turnkey and
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