The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-09-21
GIVING THE NEWS

LII NcSiuS VI oily hS"oPc>PSA
i to it's community lies in the
efficiency of it's news columns.
When a subscriber pays his mons
ey he has a right to expect that
the publication will supply him
with the news of his community
as quickly, as accurately and as
completely as possible.
With this aim in view the
Courier-Reporter has always en-
deavored to render it's readers eff
ficient service and to give it's sub
/ scribers value received. An ex-
ample of ourier-Reporter SER
vice, as contrasted with some of
the other newspapers Of the
county, was furnished last week
in reporting the results of the
primary election in this county.
Altho forty miles away from the
county seat where the returns
are compiled, this paper carried
a much more complete report of
the election results than did
either Of the county seat papers.
In fact, this paper, thru loss of
considerable sleep and the ex-
penditure of some money, was
prepared at daylight Wednesday
morning to give it's readers more
complete election returns than
either of the Prosser papers gave
in their issues of last week.
The Courier-Reporter devoted
separate story each to the re-
publican ticket in the county, the
republican ticket in the state,
the non-partisan judiciary ticket
in the district, and to the county
democratic ticket, and gave it's
readers a total of 35 inches of
election news. The Independents
Record, with one story gave it's
readers IL inches of news while
the Republican-Bulletin devoted
just four inches Of space to the
election, which was the big story
of the week.
Attic the official figures had
not yet been compiled in the aud
itor's office, the Courier-Repor-
ter gave it's readers the total
vote in the county for U. S. sem
ator, congressman, governor,
state senator and all county Of
fees where there was contest.
The totals given for district and
county offices were correct save
for an error of one vote in one
total. The Republican-Bulletin
gave no figures at all and the
Observation-Disclosures gave incom-
plete returns but failed to &C
quaint it's readers with the fact
that they were incomplete. The
Courier-Reporter was the only
one of the three papers that
made any attempt to give any
returns for superior judge in
either Adams or Franklin coun-
ties. The Ccurier-Reporter gave
complete Benton county returns
for this Office and accounted for
all put 81 votes in the other two
counties. 1t might be mention
ed also that neither the Pasco
nor the Ritzville papers attempt
ed TO give any judiciary returns
outside Ct their respective coun-
ties.
In its four inches of space the
Republican-Bulletin informed it's
readers that "For county COM
missioners, Bash, democrat, and
Gibson, republican, are nomin-
ated in the Kennewick district,
Timberlin, democrat, in the 3rd
district and for the republican
candidate, the returns are not
complete" It so happens that
Bash is republican and Gibson
a democrat and neither of them
were candidates in the Kenne-
wick district, but in the Han
ford-Kiona district. There never
was a candidate either republi-
can nor democrat in the third
district named Tinohor1in ond r.