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That Protest.The Editor of the Warder had the hardihood to enter a protest against the award of the printing committee of the County Council last winter, by which theCounty printing was given to the Watchman. The public who know the high character of the members who constituted that committee will have some idea of the sublimity of cheek exhibited by the Editor of the Warder in calling in question their decision. The “protest” was disposed of at the late meeting of the council, and the Warder most refreshingly satupon. The Warders tender was interlined and unintelligible, and would have been thrown out without any consideration had it not been for the courtsey of the gentlemen against whom the Editor of the Warder dared to utter insinuations at the “investigation.” The fact of it is, mental reservation constitutes a large part of the Warder tenders, and the public may judge of the cost of such jesuitical tenders, if accepted, from the fact that the last time the Warders (1886) was accepted the County paid 81000 or 81100 for the same amount of printing for which they now pay about $300. The Warder had the town printing for 1888, and the jesuitical interlining of the tender was partially successful, and the town paid the piper; but the accurate business heads who look after the printing for the County are not so easily gulled, and the W atch-Man* got the contract as a matter of course. At the January session of the County Council the Editor of the Warder got a tew of his admirers in that body to fumt the circulation in order to shut out the Watchman*. But the Watchman* had been growing all along, and not dying as the Warder had been industriously and privately circulating, and came in first, swallowing the plum at which the Warder had made so desperate a clutch. The Watchman is now holding the County printing for its second year, and will continue to do so for the future —for the County’s good. It has also in charge the town printing as well. Its tenders are just what business men delight in—straight, aboveboard, and not resembling an interliners translation of some unknown tongue. But the “most unkindest cut of all” to the H arder is that the public printing contracts should tall to the Watchman* above all others. Our enterprise, it is well known has been to that journal as disturbing an element as a “red rag to a bull.” Nothing will make the erratic French blood in the veins of the Warder effervesce like unto the mention even of our name. But thanks to the encouragement and support we have been receiving at the hands of our patrons the bitter and unmanly hostility against which we have had to contend, has only strengthened our forces. The following is what the Committee on Printing says about “ that protest” : “Your committee have considered the protest of Mr. S. Hughes against the award of the contract for printing and advertising, by the special committee and have examined the tenders received by the committee. Your committee beg to express approval of the action of the special committee in awarding the contract to Mr. Jos. Cooper.”md-tl
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Lindsay Watchman
Lindsay, Ontario, CA
Thu, Jun 20, 1889
Page 8
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Har-Leigh A.
CA 11 Aug 2023
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