Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-10-28

Aio0i lis paper! lHc OTAR Olu was
cheaper thar any other bid, and the
STAR fairly got the printing. Such
winning walls are abou' Oh "a par with
the babyisl act OF the Times-Herald
editor wherein he tried to have the
STARS bid on the city printing set
aside because the Timns.IIerald editor
went away and failed to get his bid 10
the city council at al, and the STAR
bid therefore was the only one
presented. and WE got the printing and
it costs the cit7 no more than il ever
did.
Since the foregoing was in type Au.
ditor Stanley hands us IL letter which
he sem to The Times-Berald for publ
cation. 1t may appear in that paper
and The IL may not-but it will do no
harm to give the STAR readers the ben.
eft of it also:
October "a, 1898.
T.. S. Amcs, ESQ.
EditorIimes-lierald.
Last weeks issue of yuul naper con-
tanned an item in reference to the
county printing in which you seek to
create the impression that there has
been lrregularity and dishonesty in
the matter OF letting these contracts
for p rintins- CLOSING tho item referred
to with the insulting and v~il.ifying
remark the auditor who will Engage
i'm such trickery i, moi worthy of con
iideace in pnoiic affairs" Ii you mean
by this TO say that | have opened or
caused TO he opened any bids of amy
KIND before the proper time Cor such
opening Tor the purpose OF giving one
bidder an advantage yer AN other. or
for any other purpose, or have AT any
time shown ;ly favoriiism i'm the mai
ter of accepting bids tor amy
you wilfnlly and nialiciously falsify, as
every member OF the board of county
commissioners we'll knows. The pro
posnls for printing wcrc asked for by
publication at my suggestion for the
purpose OF av"ining any show of favor
ltism as wei! as for The purpose of Sc
curing The very lowest rates for tho
county. Yours Respectfully.
WILLIAM III. STANLEY.
County Auditor.
Please publish 1he above in this
weeks issue Of fhe Times Herald.
STOLEN.
n vslua! 4lsiis,ct iilcd away in IA
va'tit 'lo court house WAS recently
stole ant 49, a. Sion Naturally ar
lscs. who is ..po.,siblu and how cnulI
II thief gtlin ac,.cNs tn the vault? \ re
our couslig g,cus,s safe from mutila-
tion or 'h"s': Times llelala.
ihr abs! act referred 20 vas not the
property Of Tho county. lmt MAS made
for Rev. y. a A-owa nr Chas. hotham.
the compete, al.i honorabic aAstract-
er who otices with ~ gi7iee of Deeds
Smi,hSo'i. anu snii distract. retorc us
delivery to Mi. Brown. W., valuable
only To Nj. Hotham in the amount of
WORK h" had expended in making it.
Lit So h%appenei that WHEN !sov. i,rown
called FOR the ah~itact il could not he
found. ii having been temporarily mis-
laid, bat be asiorwar,t, found IL i'll IL
drawer III the vanit whore ii bad pre-
%vionsiy been placed uud it WAS dcliv-
cred TO Mr.. Brown. So thal the ub-
stgact WAS not "stolei." and 40 "thief"
has access 10 the countv records. VIII
Ancs apologize 10 Col. smithson and
Charley lothian for his Infamous
chargos of ~larcency and cgrlossness in
their oilice?
The STAR doesn't cnioy discussing
such miserable SANDER. and we real
lze ,nat the people do not all enjoy
reading such things, but when IL pro-
tossed newspaper boldly makes such
serious charges there possibly may be
some people WHO would lie inclined TO
believe them were they not denied.
AT least the Times-lierald makes such
statements with the hone that some
body viii believe them and will there
by be misiead aud form wrong ideas
regarding honest men and officials. 1t
does seem TO rs. however. THAT by this
time the public should fully under
stand that they can place no relian ce
whatever upon anything the Times
Herald MAJ says. aGd they shouid un-
derstand too the aaimus and purposes
of such siahler5 and wholly uatruth-
full ~attac;=. But tine Times Herald viii
continue 10 male inst the anne kind
OF atiacks-@iMl ssr anything no nat
ter row siigrs es ~tairntnfal. that
may com - i iiter N na+ uiiiG hop
ina & eicii.f We fa49 laie eQ "a i ireju-
dire II prone as5ll sa tAus bring
about ttee IA ed e republican