The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-14
CONTEST RESULT REFUTES
PESSINIISTS

Inc outcome OF the ldahO Repub-
lican prize subscription contest
seems to have made everybody hap
py. Each contestant received a re-
ward commensurate with her effort
and achievement in the race. The
Idaho Republican also comes out of
the campaign winner in every way,
with more money, more subscribers
and more good will than ever before,
and feels itself very much the debt
or of the Charles Partlowe company
and its representative, Mr.. A. NJ.
Stewart, who managed the cam
paign.
The Partlowe company has been
engaged in staging these successful
newspaper contests for many years
fifteen or so-and the final result of
our own subscription race adds but
one more feather to the cap of men
who do not know the word failure
The management of the Republi-
can had intended to have Mr.. Part
lowe commence the contest in. March
or April, and was disappointed when
circumstances postponed it for more
than month, because May, 1920,
saw the long-looked-for reaction
from easy spending everywhere in
America. However, tight money, as
an obstacle, did not look any too
terrible to either the Partlowe people
or the Republican bunch, and
there was no hesitation in beginning
when the stage was set.
A few of the pessimists kept say
ing that in the first place there was
no money in Bingham county, and
that the paper could not make any
thing out of such a contest, if the
announced prizes were given away.
Yes, they even limited darkly that it
had been known to happen that news
paper prizes were sometimes won
but not awarded.
Our contestants found plenty of
money in Bingham county to put
over the greatest subscription cam
raign ever attempted in the county.
1t was said, too, that in every such
affair some person with plenty of
money always stepped in at the last
moment and bought the prize, as
electioneers are often accused of do
ing in politics. But the Partlowe
company is no beginner at the game,
its managers are not mere boom
ers, and its policy is not the result
Of talk around a card table by a
few promoters. They carry on a
straightforward business that puts
out a service much in demand in the
publishing business, and have been
in the game quite long enough to
have found a means of overcoming
such drawbacks as an arrangement
whereby contests would tempt reo-
PIE to unfair measures of winning
One of the remedies used against
this human weakness is that of re-
ducing the vote power as the end |
draws near so that it would take |
more money to buy in
to first place as the thing proceeds. |
And there are countless other de- |
tails of this contest business that
busy newspaper folks could MOI hope
to catch on to in one short cjm-
paign. The Republican bunch adj
mits that it could not have carried
out such contest all alone. Pitfalls
FOR the innocent are many, and to be
success, the campaign must abso-
utely result in good will on every
hand, as this one has done.
The Idaho Republican is glad to
see the prize winners in possession
If their rewards, as are also the hun
1reds of friends who watched with
interest the progress Of contestants.
And those workers who did not sue
iced in winning any stated prize
nave been nevertheless repaid for
heir time and energy by cash COM
MISSIONS.
1t has all been interesting, exciting II
md satisfactory. Another milestone
s up on the onward path of this
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