Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1900 — Demand a Retraction, Do They? [ARTICLE]

Demand a Retraction, Do They?

We’ei See Them LaterThe editor of the Journal will make no friends, whose friendship is not a damage to him, by his 6wift ans blaokguardly attaok up* on the editor of the Republican for our reference to what Reformer Babcock charged for publishing tne State Board of Health rules. We stand ready to show that there arc other printers whose way of figuring would show that the charges made for publishing this notice by both the Journal and the Democrat were from sls to $25 more than iegal rates. We stand ready to produce priuters who will show this-- from the columns of the Journal and th 9 Democrat themselves We staud ready to show that these two men set up these rules in their own offices, in honest nonpariel type. That they inserted these rules in their respective papers. We 6tand ready to show that these rules thus set up in their own offices and printed, and after the measurement of the “enorm ously padded’’ headings had been scaled dqwnifo what the law allows, that tne notice would not have exceeded 82 or at the most 85 squares, and the legal rate upon wJp'Ob, for two publications, would have been from $123 to $127.50 Whereas they charged and were paid $l5O.

We shall show further, that instead of making their legal publication of these rules in this honest nonpariel type, they rejected it and sent to some other town and obtained stereotyped plates of the rules for which they paid 75 cents each That they used these plates to make the legal publication with, instead of the type they had set themselves. That their boughten stereotype plates were no better for the people in any way. and no good purpose was served by their use, in plaoe of the home-set notice, further than to afford an excuse for adding to the enormous oom pensation of the printers. And that these plates were set in such unnecessarily and unusually extended type, and with such unusual and unnecessarily thick spaces between the words, that the size and measurement of the notice was thus greatly increased. We propose to show further that fairly set in the nonpariel type of the ordinary printing office, these rules, measured in conformity to law, would amount, at legal rates, to from sls to $25 less than the rate§ charged last winter by the Democrat and the Journal.