The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1916-04-21
COUNTY PRINTING.

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ing the past five years it has Deen
maid more money for printing and al
yertising by the county than all other
papers in the county combined. This
is probably true, although The Herald
has never been sufficiently interested
IN the matter to ascertain what has
been paid other papers. Mr. Wilkes
might also have stated with equal
truth that The Herald has a much
larger paid circulation than any other
newspaper in Maury county; that its
volume of advertising of all kinds
very largely exceeds, probably more
than doubles the volume of advertis-
ing of all of the other papers in the
county; that its volume of buiness is
greatly in excess of the business of all
other publishing and printing estab-
lishments of the county.
Mr.. Wilkes might also have stated
that the influence and power of The
Herald as shown by the almost uni
form success in Maury county of the
policies which 1t has advocated, are
growing all the time. He might also
with equal regard for the truth have
stated that The Herald publishes more
Maury county news; spends more mon
ey to get the news; devotes more
space and more money to exploiting
the resources of Maury county than
all other papers combined. He says
that The Herald has been paid some
$500 per year for county printing dur
ang the past five years. He might also
have stated that The Herald has
number Of satisfied customers in Maury
county who have annually spent with
It for several years considerably
larger sum than that.
Now as to county printing, The
Herald makes this plain statement:
ANY charge or intimation from Mr.
wilkes or from any other source what
soever, that one dollar has ever been
Maid to The Herald under its present
management by Maury county improp-
gerly or for any other than legitimate
purpose for value received and upon
proper account duly rendered and ap-
proved by the party making the pur-
chase, is absolutely and unqualifedly
false. No unclean dollar has ever
been received during that period by
The Herald No dollar that the high
est ethics of the newspaper profession
would not upon investigation sustain,
has ever been received, and The Her
aid here and now challenges Mr..
Wilkes to present proof to the con-
trary. Not only that, but The Herald,
because of its rigid and answering
adherence to the higher ethics of the
newspaper profession, has annually,
under the present management, re-
fused profitable business.
The point of Mr.. Wilkes whole con-
tribution is lost when 1t is remem-
bered that the county court of Maury
county has not and does not dispose
of a single dollar of printing or adver-
Using patronage Neither the court
nor the members thereof have ever
sought to influence the officials of Maury
county to give one dollar of patronage
to The Herald and this paper here and
now challenges Mr. Wilkes to obtain
the testimony of any official of Maury
county that such is the fact. All that
the county court does is to see that
bills for printing are properly audited
and appropriate the money for theil
payment. No man can truthfully say
that bills presented by this paper
have received any different treatment
than that accorded bills from any 9th
er publisher.
An injustice is done Judge Mcknight
su the statement that he has paid The
Herald a large sum. In fact, Judge
Mcknight pays no bills; they are paid