Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1913 — Recurrence of His Old Trouble—Bellyachitis. [ARTICLE]

Recurrence of His Old Trouble—Bellyachitis.

Our brother with the sour grape disposition has just had a recurrence of his old trouble, bellyachitis, and throws a conniption fit this week because The Republican did me printing for the poultry asociation, alleging that the association is a republican aggregation and not worthy of democratic support. In the same article; to show how foolish the charges are, the editor admits that he printed the catalogue in 1908, 1909, 1010, 1911, and he does not show that The Republican ever objected in any way or ever used the fact that The Democrat printed the catalogue jus an excuse for not boosting the poultry Show in every possible way. During the fall of 1911 a democrat who represented the association as a committee for giving out the catalogue job called at The Republican office and after doing some figuring we made the bid of $40.50. He came to The Republican office a little later and said that The Democrat had bid S4O. We did not question the legitimacy of the transaction and did not make a babyish fuss to try to prejudice the public against the poultry association, and now, when The Republican printed the catalogues for the first time In five - years, The Democrat charges that the association has gone republican. As a basis for its “holler” the charge is made that The Republican received $59.11 for the catalogue. This is not true. The sum of $59.11 was paid to The Republican for the catalogue, for 500 date lines, 500 large manilla envelopes and for all the advertising that was done. The Republican printed 14 extra pages over the agreed size of the catalogue and that many more pages than The Democrat had printed in previous years and like so many ext fa rooms on a house, the cost was against the persons having the work done. During the past year there was an increase of 10 to 20 per cent* in the price of all paper, which would make a little difference In the cost of any job. But this is merely an incident that we do not eare to discuss further. The Republican was told that The offered to do the job for S4O, without the extra pages. The Republican’s price was $45, with 500 manilla envelopes for the catalogues thrown in. The job was given to us. The work was done according to all requirements and the bill was paid. It is probable that there was $lO profit above stock and labor and we are sorry that our neighbor feels so sensitive about it. A reader of The Democrat read the following paragraph from that paper: “If it Is the intention to make this show a purely republican partisan affair, so far as the expenditures of the funds are concerned, the sooner democrats awake to the faet and withdraw their patronage from it altogether the better.” He then remarked: “Bah, it is such cheap things as that that have tended to disgust the better class of democrats In Jasper county with the editor of their party paper."