The Globe-republican., 1894-11-30

man who covets his neighbor's job OF
work to that degree that he proposes
to do it for less money, is an unsat-
isfactory and undesirable employee.
They do not regard it in the interest
of economy to employ such men, be
cause there is always something else
crooked in their makeup which will
soon crop out to the disadvantage of
the employer.
We do not wish to detract from the
personal character of our esteemed
contemporary, but think it is extreme
ly doubtful if our county commiss
toner's would be pleased with the kind
of service he would render them.
In order to relieve the taxpayers
of any apprehension they may have
that the work might have been done
for one hundred dollars, we will say
that our job foreman informs US that
it would have been impossible for the
populist organ to have printed the
ballots in the length OF time allowed
for this job. That establishment has
not the amount of material required
to set it up. It has no stereotyping
plant to cast plates of part Of it at a
time, as we had to do, neither has it
a press of sufficient power to bring
out clear print upon super-calen-
dered book paper such as was used,
on form so large at that of the of
fetal ballot, nor the speed to do the
printing in the short time allowed.
The pop editor may think he could
have done the job, but our job fore
man has much greater knowledge of
the printing art, and his skill is of
much higher order than the former,
hence we prefer to believe him con
corning this matter rather than take
the opinion of our esteemed contem
porary-
The Dodge City Democrat Office is
far better equipped with material for
doing such work than is the shop of
this newly constituted guardian of
Ford county, yet the force in that of
flee will tell you that they could not
have printed the ballots at all at any
price. They know something about
the material required and labor nee
essary for such a job. Two men of
populist inclination assisted us in
getting out the ballots, and both of
them will tell you that the pop edi
tor is simply talking through his hat
when he says he would have been
glad to have done the work for 500.
County Clerk Leidigh. who has al
ready shown himself to be the most
radical economist in behalf of the |
county that has ever occupied that
Office, rendered constant and valued
service in getting out the ballots, and
can assure any doubling one that
the organ of villifcation could not
have begun to get ready to do the
job.
1t only requires short time and
little practice to print newspaper,
but to figure ON job printing one
must have instructions for years I'M
der competent master of the art
preservative, and this part of our
contemporaries education has cyl
IDENTIFY been neglected, therefore his
estimates of value Of job work are apt
to mislead himself as we'll as others.
In conclusion we will say the most
of our readers have too much conf
dence in the common sense and hon
esty of the men who compose our
board of county commissioners to
take the unsupported word of man
who has only been known to them a
few months, charging them with per
hitting ''bold robbery to be per
petrated against the county, but there
are always few people in every
community who will take for granted
as true any SANDER circulated by
total stranger against we'll known
citizens of irreproachsble character,
and we have fully explained the alb
surdity of this .'false alarm" for
the benefit of the suspicious few who