Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1897-08-11

No wonder the Bulletin gets mad, paws up the
the earth and calls ohancres upon society. 1t
through the columns Of the Republican that the tax
payers called down the commissioners for allowing
him 20 rob the people, and they trimmed his quarterly
drawdown for doing the county printing from Sl2oo
year to S433 OF course everyone knows the Rue-
TIN and IT'S little ootere OF society people have the
st. Vitas dance of the jaw bone and not respon
sibe for what they say, but there is metre
tongue and will continue to let the taxpayers
know just what is going on.-Elmore County Re
publican.
1t is possible editor Simpson in
dited the above "scorcher," but we
don't believe he did. We spoke of
certain individuals venting their
spleen through the columns Of their
organ" but did not refer to the ed
itor of the Mckinley sheet. How
ever, by fathering the above, he ac-
knowledges that ''the cap fits and
jumps onto the BULLETIN with both
feet and again alludes to the great
county printing robbery" Here.
tofore we have ignored the insane
vaporings of the Republicans anon
ymous helpers, but now that editor
Simpson, who claims to be Union
printer and a Democrat, though he
occupies the humiliating position of
editor and publisher of rank Nc
Kinley organ, misrepresents us as
he does above, we deem it proper to
give few facts relative to our rob-
bling the county, without divulging
word, at this time, that the gen.
tleman has told US in confidence.
In January we proposed to the COM
missioners to contract for the county
printing at 5000 a year-not cent
less. They seemed to think the
sum too much, and one of the board
asked us if we would do county
work at the same rate that we
charged individuals, Our reply was
that owing to the liberal amount of
printing necessary to be done we
would do the county work for one
third less than we charged individ-
uals. The commissioners accepted
our proposition and for six months
the contract was faithfully carried
out. But meantime the Republi-
can kept up continual howl about
the BULLETIN robbing the taxpay-
ers. 1t was for political effect only,
with probably little envy thrown
in, and the cry was taken up and
reiterated by all the small-fry Re-
publicans in the county-from Sam
Kincaid down. At the July term
the commissioners, realizing the ac-
tual cost of printing, were willing
to contract at our first figures Of
fered, 5000 per year from the 10th
day Of January, 1897, or at the rate
Of $3.50 from July 10, to January
10, 1899, we having already re-
ceivcd $550-and a contract to that
effect is now of record. Personally
we respect Mr.. Simpson, and we be-
lieve if he were allowed to express
his real sentiments in print he
would frankly acknowledge that
cold Payne earns every dollar that
he receives from the county for
printing" In our former contract
we charged 5 cents per line for the
first insertion and 4 cents for each
subsequent insertion, and took our
pay in county warrants. Mr.. Simp-
son charges his individual patrons
10 cents per line for the first inser-
ton and 5 cents for each subse-
quent insertion, and makes them
pay him in hard cash. Yet we dc
not feel inclined to say that Mr.
Simpson is "robbing" his patrons
) We fear the OCTOPUS" has deathly
grip upon the Brothers Simpson
and would remind them to beware
of the fate of poor Wright, who
served ode combine" faithfully
for several wears