The Holbrook news., 1916-01-28
BRAXTON PLEADS GUILTY
Confesses That He Wrote Editor ioI in The NerOs lDhich WinslouO Mail Charocterizes as Untrue
 Redeemer Chapman Set Right.

At the risk of losing the high regard Editor Chapman of the Winslow Mail expresses for us. we will endeavor to correct the impression he seems to wish to convey that we did not write the editorial in reference to the let ting of the contract for county printing, which editorial was published in The News of Jan- uary IA last. We-Mr. Braxton, editor of The News wrote the article referred to in last week 8 issue of the Mail. We are the guilty arch conspirator;" the
 lame duck" who will profit by
 the fraudulent letting of the county printing. which robs the taxpayers of $500 or more for the year 1916"
 As matter of fact we write a good many of the articles pub lished in The News. Unlike Editor Chapman and Publisher Smith of the Snowflake Herald we are not able to employ a brace of lawyers to write our editorials for us; nor does our staff include such a willing bunch of disgrunt- led politicians as the Mail and Herald seem to have gathered a. bout them. In consequence. we must of necessity do a little writ ing ourself. And we are writing this ''plece" now, and we ex- pect to publish it without sub hitting a proof to any other per son on earth.
 Since we have probably already caused MT. Chapman to lose his good opinion of us by acknow- ledging that we wrote the editor ial Tn question-than which no greater calamity can befall us we may as well continue a bit further. slnce our typewriter seems to be working well.
 Much as we dislike the prac- tice of reiteration. we have found 1t sometimes necessary. especial ly with children, dotards and alleged editors of newspapers. Sometimes the last named class are hopeless. Such, we fear, are the cases of Chapman and Smith. The latter stated in his Snowflake Herald, issue of January ', when referring to the award of the printing contract: Brother Braxton knew the game better. " Right, for once, MT. Smith. And he did not have to turn turtle to get the contract" as you stated in your next issue. He secured the contract because his bid was the best, and his bid was best because he knew the game bet ter" also because he knew his competitors.
 The Malls statement tbat the taxpayers will be robbed of $500 or more because the contract for printing was not awarded to the editor of that paper is ludicrous; it's of piece with many of the other mis-statements the editor of the Mail IS so fond of making. To a person of even ordinary in- telligence It will be difficult to explain how the county could save $500 by awarding the con- tract to a man whose bid was higher, figured as a whole, than the figure at which the contract was let.
 It's easy to make false state ments and wild assertions: the only harmful thing about such things is that they are some times believed by people who either do not know, or will not seek to learn. the real facts. But we doubt that any will be- lieve the Mails statement in this regard. During the few months Mr. Chapman has posed as the editor of that paper, 1t readers have learned to discount it's ut terances. They are coming to ask for corroborative evidence when