Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-10-29
THE MOUNTAIN TRAVAILED
AND BROUGHT FORTH
M0ITSEi


Under the caption, Trying To
Fool The People," the Democratic
Expositor of last week endeavors TO
convict the Tribune in the minds of
the Fulton County public of several
things, among them base ingraIltude
and the effort to keep important in
formation concerning the candidates
on the various party tickets at the
coming election. The article IN
question strikes US as "Much ado
about nothing" but the Expositor
writer seems to be deeply concerned
if not mortally offended and in or
der to prevent the Expositor writer
from DOING what he accuses us OF
lust TRYING to do, i. e. 'fooling the
people" we are taking the time and
space to answer the aforesaid artl-
Gle. The burden of the Expositor's
plaint is, that the Tribune refused TO
loan the type or form OF the balloos
to the Expositor in order that they
might print some sample ballots Tor
use in the campaign in behalf OF the
Democratic candidates and that IN 50
doing we were making an effort to
keep the thinking Republicans and
especially the women" in ignorance
of the names "of the unworthies on
the Republican ticket" also to keep
from them the opportunity OF COM
pairing the two tickets. In brief, we
are charged with being "rOckrlbed
partisan Republican" paper; (and
we sincerely thank the Exposltor
for that compliment) who thinks it
ga crime for Republican to read
Democratic paper; who refused TO
grant a contemporary publisher a
favor when said contemporary pub
Usher had in times past granted
much greater favors and which IS
cooperating with the Republican
machine" in keeping the people and
especially the women in Ignorance
of the Democratic candidates etc.
In the first place, the Exposltor
WAS NOT REFUSED the 'FAVOR'
they asked.
The contract for printing the bal
lots for use in Fulton County was
awarded to the Tribune as the low
est bidder and the Tribune is under
bond for twice the price bid for
printing the ballots, to deliver those
ballots to the Board of Deputy
State Supervisors of Elections for
Fulton County on Friday October
29th. There are over $4,000 ballots
to be bound in 156 books. The Trl-
bune is responsible and must keep
the forms in it's possession until as
surred that every ballot IS ready TO
deliver. The Republican County ex-
ecutive committee placed an order
with the Tribune for a quantity Of
each of the ballot forms as samples,
as soon as they knew that the Trl-
| bune had the contract, as soon as
| the forms kvere up these samples
and official ballots for the accomo-
dation of absent voters were run
off and delivered, the presses were
then set at work on the official bal
lots. The early part of last week
| one of the local Democratic leaders
came into the Tribune office to ask
about sample ballots, he was inform
ed that we could not possibly print
them until Tuesday of this week
because we would not have the off,
cial ballots finished before that time
| this gentleman was treated with
every courtesy, a copy of the Re.
publican sample ballot was secured
for him. On Thursday of last week
a member of the Expositor publish
ing firm came to our office and ask
| ed to borrow ballot forms he wa:
told that we could not let the form
of the Presidential Ballot go unit
we had finished running those bal
lots which would be about Tuesda!
e T1o o1e1 70 Of
ballot for which he asked; the senio1
Editor of the Tribune told the Elk
positor man that he thought tina
it could be arranged to loan tina
form as soon as a check could b.
made to make sure that all tn,
State and County ballots had beel
printed, but that the senior edito
would not say definitely until h
had consulted the Junior Editor VIII
bears equal responsibility for the full
fillment of the contract and the de
livery of the ballots.
HE WAS NOT REFUSED. From
the writer's personal viewpoint tn
article in the >Expositor is a bit :
"camouf1age" to divert the minds 0
the people who may read it froI
the real issues of the present cam
paign and discredit if possible
publication that is devoted to secul
ing a clean, efficient, wholesome, ec
: onomical and impartial governmer
which we have not had in State c
4 Nation under Democratic administr:
tion.
| AS to the Republican candidate
there is not man on the ticket 5
far as we know who is not cleal
able, efficient, honest and honorabl
We are not trying ito smirch tt
personal character of any of tt