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Show THE HOWL OF THE EXQUIRER. We folly expected the howl of the Enquirer to which we were treated Saturday on the printing award by the county court. It hurts that paper dreadfully fo be beaten on any propor I ltion and it can squirm, scold and prevaricate beyond anything ever seen when its grab-all propensities meet with the least set back whatever. We propose to treat it occasionally with a few of these same disappointments just to see the fun, not that there is, or will be in the future, the least profit in doing the work at the figure we bid on It. We want to teach this same cry - V' Tne call for bids published by Mr. Halliday was the usual call published in I ivery county where such bids are asked I f or.lt was clear .clean and unambiguous. I We asked for the specifications there was not the least difficulty in determining determin-ing the nature of the work desired at our hands. Then we also understood ' I that the specifications gfor stationery was one thing, the call for printing j mother. We proposed to allow the! stationery houses to struggle for that as . fhy choee, but la the matter of printing print-ing theyxduld not oo tn pete. We understood un-derstood that the call meant all the 1 "printing," either Job printing or pub lications in the columns of the paper. We grouped these as was the intention of the call and which is the . plain intent in-tent of the law. In bidding, our average was lower than that of the En-quirer, En-quirer, and an honest court, be it dem-"""l dem-"""l ecratic or republican, oduld not do I otherwise than award it Irs. Thie ia I all there is in it, and upon such flimsy I pretext doe the paper named open its I mud batteries on the coart. , B 1 grouping advertising arid" job printing, I the county has saved the differesce be I tween the averages ef Thb Dispatch and the Enquirer, this is illegal only because it does not suit' the grab-all proclivities of this insatiate and selfish Enquirer of our. Besides all this the Enquirer is not exactly truthful in its J I statement of the case. The Dispatch j bid for both the job work and the ad vertising. Mr. McEwan made no separate sepa-rate bid. lie signed the bid as superintendent super-intendent of The DisfatCh job-rooms. It U often remarked that when democratic dem-ocratic officers tail to do what the Enquirer En-quirer requires them to do they become be-come at once "spoilsmen," This volunteer insult to two leading well known and honest citizens will not in-S, in-S, - jura them but it does injure cruelly the - tonelerar journal which vents its spite ia thia unwarranted and utterly mean way. It fa sweet music in' the ears of The Dispatch is thia Enquirer wail, tnii helpleaa groaning over spilt milk. I 8fi2fr p Mr. Enquirer; take another I grip on your tear tank loot fate in the I face and resolve hereafter to be a man. I botn decent arid- honest and perhaps I fate, the county court and the law will I grow more kindly in your favor, but ! we doubt the sense of- your bulldozing policy. Try something else the " novelty of decency and see- how that will work. |