The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-23
From the Daily eff Sunday.
That Explanatlon.

The Inter Mountain, in it's issue of th
18th inst, promised to give "a clea
plain and simple explanation of til
:vay in which the county printip
was awarded" We were led
believe by the promise, and from th
fact that 1t took two davs to prepar
it, that when it was made it woul
be over the signatures of Chairman
VIM. M. Jack, and his man Friday
II. c. Kessler. 1t must be presumed
however, that the Inter Mountai
scribe received, what ne terms in las
evenings issue of that sheet, :"
statement of facts" from one or totl
of the Commissioners named. Tha
they did not affix their signatures t,
shis so-called Statement of facts" i
owing, propably, to the fact that they
dare not stand sponsors for the tissu,
of. bare faced falsehoods and mis-
eading statements. which tn,
Inte, Mountains explanations con
tanned.
Without noticing for the present
all these talsehoods and misleading
statements, we will come right down
to the ground occupied by the Inter
Mountain. That paper asserts the
MINERS proposal to do the county
printing was not submitted before
the contract was closed with the
Inter Mountain. If this were so, this
controversy would not have been
commenced by the MINER. But it
is not so, and no one knows that it IS
bare faced lie better than VIM. NJ.
Jack and H. G. Kessler. Now for the
proof: Mr.. Kessler knew he could
close no contract with the Inter
Mountain. Whatever agreement he
might have made with that or any
other paper had to be ratified 6y he
hoard before is svas Of effect. When
did the Board ratify the agreement?
Not until after the proposal of the
MIN EK accompanied by a S., 900 bond
Was before the Board. Tue MINERS
proposal Was placed in the hands of
the Clerk of the Board before that
body met the morning of the 7th
inst. This can be proven. Now let
US see when the Inter Mountains
contract Was accepted and ratified by
the Commissioner In the instru-
ment they submitted to the Commits
~ioners are the following words:
Contract accepted and ratified Jam
nary 7, 1884, at meeting of the
Board of County Commissioners of
Silver Bow county, NJ. T."
These are the facts in the case.
They prove the Inter Mountaia's con-
tract aUas not closed before the
MINERS proposal was submitted,
and any as ssertion to the contrary by
the Inter Mountain CIR Mr.. Kessler is
false. We know whereof We speak.
Again we are told that "Mr. Brown
business manager Of the N1INER)
that the old contract and the
Did prices were still operative" This
8 faIsehood number two. Mr.. Brown
claimed nothing of the kind. ut
he refore," adds the mouthpiece of
he commissioners, "he (Mr. BROWN
lad retained the old contract with |
I'll the rights as to charges it con.
erred, the Commissioners could It
,ive him another contract at lower
ate, because they had DO assurance
hat Mr.. Brown would not continue
o base his charges on the schedule
established ~ the higher power of
he Legislature" This is a very
mall hole for Mr.. Kessler to crawl
hrough, but Mr.. Kessler is a very
mail man. In answer to all this it
) only necessary to say that the
dINER's proposal to do the county
printing at the rates specified in the
was made in good faith,
Which fact Is shown by
he proposal being accompa-
lied by a bond with good and
utficient sureties VINO bound them
elves in the sum Of S. 900 that the
should be done in a work.
nanlike manner and at the rates
pecified. There is no getting around
his fact. 1t is a matter of record.
Now a word in reply to the whine
# the Inter Mountain. fee, He J
.nows or should know that in the
liners contract to do the comfy
for Silver Bow County,
which contract bears the signature
f the Inter Mountains god-Gov-
rnor Crosby, the MINER can make
% charges. 1t simply makes out its
ills according to the rates aAowed
yMe law itself. It cannot make
nem out in excess OF these rates. It
nay make them out for less which
t has done in some instances.
In the letting of this country print
ng both WIN. NJ. Jack and II. G..
kessler have sho wn themselves unfit
, manage the affairs of Silver Bow
county. They have proved them
elves unfaithful to the interests of
he county in the matter. The pre-
''mption is they have been unfaith-
ii IN others. Men in official positions,
rho permit their political preju6ices
D influence their action in the ad-
ainistration of the peoples affairs
re unworthy of the peoples conf
lence. They cannot be trusted.