Show To The Public June 22nd there appeared On Friday an advertisement call in the for Enquirer votes from the public for their ing choice for Goddess of Liberty in the celebration The com of July Fourthof select the Goddess cJnssts of mittee to Mrs Annie Atk nand Ellen aiteman Mrs White the last Mrs James and THE lady has never called at named office and wo therefore DISPATCH with this knoW her not in connection matter Saturday June 23rd the two first On named ladies seemingly having ascertained that they made a mistaite inserting the same advertisement in not 116PATClI as well ag in In THE ment and office Se cillstt a this the Enquirer published requested that tee notice be inTheB columns The discourtesy was in these overlooked and the notice was inserted in-serted Tuesday June 26th it i became On caB at thlS of were votes known that lady On that certain young fica for a to boat to the effect day rumors uegan dId not want her committee thti that claiming that she IS voted for to be waman It waS not in the an impure of this paper to sit In jl1dg province girl and blaken tillS young anent upon character althougn the Enquirer her 11 her name m Its by refusing to publish did 60 column published in these Tier name was rumors continued to columns and the not elen a ODe person no grow out found committee was memuerof the member that the who would say in our presence girl and of course not a pure lady IS the from not take her name we could Now comes a card written columns commit member of the evidentlY by a CVlUCUblJ j u 1 signed by the young ladys j and tee betaken that her name fattier demanding This gentleman taken from the list undertaken has Who first is the person his daughter bears to Bay pubiiciy that tuat cue is not fit such a reputation Which lor respectable people company is the teat us b y implication only he does reason by for the withdrawal of her name The lady herself writes THE DISPATCH stating that she did not author PATCH withdrawal of her name As izu the for her and can legally act is of age she the card from her self in this matter lather is withheld Now when this matter was first THE DISPATCH for publication offered it was asked it presented the contest lady who was open to the public the in emphatic language was The reply that Ult is and it was suggested guage v w u J v the com better plan would be for committee the plan ten ladies for mittee fo nominate say committee had decided the race but the cided fully upon the matter were positive pos-itive and would not listen to any suggestions sug-gestions The notice was published strictly in accordance with instructions of and votes were cast the result which has been published each day THE Uispxrca sold several thousand copies of the paper of Monday and Tuesdays date Now comes the committee com-mittee and demands that the notice of Contest be withdrawn from these columns col-umns and announces through the Enquirer that no votes from this paper quirer 28th that bear a later date that June will be counted a d no votes that have not the name the paper from which they were cut It was not at first de cnanded that the name of the paper i Pl siould 1 appear on the ballot Had it i I Y as been it could have been printed easily as not and th ° reon as been Yesterday Mrs w mId have Atkin asked that the words THE DISPATCH be printed on the ballot This was done but several thousand copies of the paper of an earlier date had already been sold Now the committee I com-mittee would entrap us into a trick for obtaining making us liable to a suit under false pretenses We sold the money papers knowing full well that they were bought for the votes they contained con-tained Those votes will be counted |