The Red Cloud chief., 1881-04-28
A TsIt With Tie Beard q County Com.
-s>ss,aNe

In tniS articic We shaii, pcih'PS,
criticise the actions Of u county
commissioners. but i'm doing 40 We
wish 70 lie understood as ~beiieveing
tina. they meant to do what they con-
ceived was for the best interests Of the
county, and that they have enddav-
ored To do 30 We have no doubt. That
the commissioners DO not fully under
stand their duty TO the people Il the
county in regard to the much talked
Of investigation matter, Is plain ~ III.
We took occasion to state to the
board ut their netting April 10Th,
what We believed vas their duty III
the premises, viz: That the petition
for an investigation was placed before
them by the people of the county and
| that it was clearly their duty to act
upon il and to grant the PRAYER Of the
petitioners or refuse to do So, which
would end it, and that anything fur
Their than this was simply childs play.
This position We still maintain to be
the correct one, and we must confess
to a feeling of disappointment and
disgust when ut their meeting last
Monday they pursued pretty much
| the samc course, the whole desire
seeming to be to shift the RESPONSE
bility of the affair upon the shoulders
| Of some one else. The commissions
crs even went so far as to send a sub
pGna after Us to compel us To go be-
fore them and take part in the per-
Torrance. an attempt which We de-
fcated 10y demanding Our fees in add
vance, We might here add that when
the child's play business is dropped
and the commissioners com an
investigation, then we arc ready to go
before them at II time in the capaci-
" of Il witness and il will not cost the
county a cent. As stated above, our
only reason for refusing TO appear
when called on last Monday was III
natural repusnance to becoming a
party to or assisting at what We all
know to be simply a farce. That the
commissioners do not want an investi-
CATION is plain to everyone. and If they
can satisfy the people that they have
done that which is for the best, all
right.
We have at different times asked
that the commissioners cause all
the county printing to be let to the
lowest bidder, and we are glad to say
that they have taken one step III that
direction by ordering the county Supt.
to have his notice to teachers publish
ed where it AN be done the cheapest.
1t seems somewhat curious To us, and
, doubtless will look strange TO the pco-
4, pie of the county, that while the com
4. missioners order the county superin-
tendcnt who has his notice published
, i'm the CHIEF to ask for bids for pub
/, fishing the same, they did not give the
+, same order to the county clerk who
has all the other county notices pub
I lishcd in the argus. We ask the com
missioncrs if there is any justice ol
fairness i'm this action. We ask them
: that if it is their duty to order ono
t county officer t get bids for his work
Il for which the county pays, is it moi
Il clearly their duty to give the sam,
n orders to each of the other county
officers. We have never charged thu
@ county full ate for publishing that
# notice. but the board want 1t don,
Y cheaper-all right, we will do the wOrs
still cheaper. The county has paid Il
the rate of $50 per thousand for blanks
and other printing in proportion, whei
the same could be furnished for bu
@ little over one third that amount if lei
% To the lowest bidder. Gentlemen, d'
Q YOU really wish to make II reduction
i'm the county's expenses? If so. CIV
4 to the other county officers the sam
s orders you gave to the superintendent
let us have no half way measures, le
= even Justice be done to all. 1t ha
K already been said to us that the reason
j. for this seeming discriminate
2 against the CHIEF in the matter
lcounty printing &, was because tn
iCuuEF advocated an investigation
n county affairs. While we are nc
n prepared to believe this report, "
re acknowledge that there might b
Il some truth in it, and we call upon tn
H. people of the county, whose servant
IL the commissioners are, to judge b'
&c tween us and them. If the cOmmi
he sioners have a right, in their capacit
IL, as public servants, TO discriminat
Id against this man or that man becau:
at his views and opinions are ut varianc
r with theirs, then We bow to tt
er inevitable and humbly submit. Blu
on the other hand, if it y clearly Il
On duty of the county commissioners
conduct county affairs i'll the interes
Of the people at large, without favo
he itism, then We demand that they Ii
'er struct all the county officers to &
their printing, which the county pa,
al. for. done where it can be done Il
nit cheapest. and that an equal chsn'
aw be given the two newspaper ofhc
FOR in the county TO bid for the same.
ye -
Snu8sd Out.
=. The investigation seems to hay
been pretty effectually snuffed pu
The commissioners at their meeti1
Monday concluded that they Won
=, not GO on with it, but would lay {
matter over until their meeting