Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1911 — “YAH! SOMEONE ATE MY CANDY” [ARTICLE]

“YAH! SOMEONE ATE MY CANDY”

IsHeartrendlngWail of Republican Because Democrat’s PIANO CONTEST WAS SUCCESS <r ■'** Infantile Spouting Reminds One of a Spoiled Child— of Wail Should Be Considered and Charity Extended. In a two-column first page article the Republican of Dec. 29 takes it very much to heart because of the success of The Democrat’s recerit piano contest. This in itself is not alarming. In fact, taken by and large, the entire article could be condensed into a single phraze of childhood days: “Somebody ate my candy-” The Republican- Says' it was a poof gamble. Not being gamblers, we don’t know. We never claimed it was a gamble,'’ just a piano contest, run on its merits. They also say The Democrat got the money. Gee! Isn’t that odd. As a piece of wonderful wisdom that gets the mustard. The Democrat ran the same kind of a contest as the Republican did a few years back. Was that a poor gamble? Didn’t the Republican get the money? Can it be possible that in the largeness of their exalted generosity they gave the money back? Is it possible that they are operating their plant and furnishing the paper to their subscriber free ? The Republican also said that a local dealer claims the piano can be bought at $87.50. As both Messrs. Healey and Clark i own pianos they ought to know' something about the value of pi-j anos. But this wasn’t an $87.50 piano. This was a REAL piano. I As to how much the piano] cost, we might reply by asking: “Who wants to know?” But as we have nothing to conceal we] will satisfy the Republican’s cur-, iosity to that extent. The piano cost $278- plus freight and cart-] age. The , following statement' is given as proof/: •

This is wholesale price,. or was so represented to us. And the representative informed us that the retail price of the instrument was $350. Not being' in the piano business, nor claiming an expert knowledge of any one’s business except our own, we could only take the representative’s word. .. T - ; There may be people on earth who claim to know ALL about everything, but, please God, we ido not want to be classed in that catagory. We claim to have lived up to our agreement in this contest to the letter and have not, at any time, wilfully or otherwise, misrepresented t the exact status of. the contestants nor the opportunity they, had of winning. As we said in our Wednesday issue of this week, it was undoubtedly the greatest contest ever held in Jasper county. It was a success, financially and otherwise, and we desire to again thank our contestants for their part in helping to make it such. i As to the opinions of the Republican on the subject, we care

not a continental whoop. Readers of their peurile effusions will agree witff us that in a “case of sour grapes,” such as this undoubtedly is, the only remedy is t'hat used to a spoiled child, consider the source and be as charitable as possible. Or we might buy it a box of cracker-jack and say: ' “Never mind, liffle boy, MAYBE you’ll be a grown-up some time.” Poor little boy, somebody stole his candy. As to the winner, Miss Ida Hurley, being a deserving girl, we fully agree with the Republican. This statement approaches intelligence on their part. But, why, in the name of common sense/does the Republican try to make Miss Hurley lose money on the sale of the piano by attemipting to distort the facts. Of course, no one believes their allegations, and very likely quite a few of Miss Hurley’s friends would like to shoot the alligator, but to all who have read their afticle we say again—be chariable?