The Arizona sentinel., 1897-06-26
HON. @ BOARD OF CONTROL.
The PhoeRix Gazette Comes to the Rescue.

THE Yuma SENTINEL is wrong in it> accusations against the board of con trol, and when 1t asserts that ti4e bids were awarded to tlle highest bidd.rS it asserts that which is not true. Even the printing bid Of the Sun was the lowest, and as to the flour, that con tract was awarded on the personal re- eommendation Of the superintendent, as the board of control did not like to override lis wishes in that respect. The hil Of the SENTINEL was lowest for publishing the annual call for bids, but was higher on the publication of the minutes of the board, and the Suns wns considered the best and ch. apest bid. As to the balance, the contracts were given in every instance te the lowest bidder It pays t0 be fair, even if you do disagree with this affidavit ridden administration.-Gd- zette.
 The Gazette above takes ns t. task as being unfair in the article on the Board of Control. in last week issue of the SENTINEL; but. we think if brother DuEb bar w;ll carefully read the article he will find out that iu his defense of the board he has acknowledged our whole contention, viz: That the board did not follow the Jaw when they failed to award the contracts to the Invest bidder on each sepa- rate article. The law is very speci 6c on that point and the board have no descretion at all in the mat ter. They must 0Oard the contr0c, to hs LoWeSt responsible bidder On each ssparote article. As we sad laet week the SENT:NEL's bid for ad veTtising was fifty cents per inch while the Suns bid foc the same was seventy. five cents.
 1t makes no diHerenc whether the .SNtm's bid was lower for the minutes of the board or not; the SENTINEL Was e..ti,ied to the advertising as it Was the lowest for the item. But tHis i> not all, there Is according t, l the admission "f the G3=stte itself. one thing which proves our whole case, that is the bIi 0n flour. H'lt ! G1~etts acknowledges that the Dntrd awarded the fl ,ur tu the highes. bidder, hut offers as n exruE.> iAa; th. superintendent uf the Dr:s | recommended theIa to Go SC. lhi' Is indeed a great excuse, when tht b,AaGd arc so hard up for a de- fence that hey find it necessary t, offer for their plain violation of tht law, the recommendations of tin prison superintendent, the stric lures of the SENTINEL are mid in- deed. This kind of rot won't g. down with the tax payers of the Ter r;t,ry But worse still they not onl, awarded the contract io the higheS
 bilier, but they discriminate against Arizona flour, in othe
 words they were so anxious to giv
 the contract 10 some one who woult
 furnish outside four that the,
 were willing to pay twenty-fv
 cents per barrel more for it. Bu
 this is mt all, we can show if nee e;sary shat it was only when the, had been threatened with law -hi that they gave the lowest bi1de anything And why? Is it tha Gandolfo & Sanguinetti were Me
 Cord men7 We don't know, .bu we have heard very strong rumor
 that way. In fact we nave hear It said that to speak McCord's nam in the presence of Grandma" Wa
 like waiving a red rag at a bul
 Arizona should offer genera
 prayer next thanksgiving day thu , "irandma" only reign,d shol time. Bro. Dunbar d1n't try {
 defend the undefencible.