The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-19
Contract Was Finally Awarded
to the Madisonian.
INTRIGUES DIDN'T WORK
A Combination Which Found ITSELF
Hoisted by Its Own Petard-Univer-
sal Satisfaction Among the
County Officials

son county was made by the newspa-
pers bidding for the public printing con-
tract for Madison county.
The contract was finally awarded to
the Madisonian, the so-called DAILY
! cratic organ. 1t has been the boast of
the Clark people for months past that
| they had started the Alder Gulch Times
| for the purpose of absorbing the county
| printing as well as everything else of
| Importance in the county. The mana
| gers and so-called owners of tire Times
| gave it out cold that they had been
promised the contract to do the print
| ing and went so far as to solicit SUBJ
| scriptions and business on the strength
| of their mythical belief that they were
| to be the whole thin~ next year. They
| declared that. they would underbd all
| the other papers inasmuch as they did
not have to make any money out OF 1t.
This. however, did not deter Joseph
Smith H., editor of the Madisonian,
from putting in bid at greatly reduced
prices.
When the time came for opening and
considering the scaled bids. Dec 5,
Joseph Smith H., editor OF the Madi-
sonian, and A. w. Noyes, editor of the
Pony Sentinel entered a protest in writ
ing setting forth the fact that the Alder
Gulch Times was not entitled to bid for
said printing, in that it had not been in
existence six months Immediately prior
to the awarding of the contract as con-
templated by the statute. copy of
the first issue, bearing date June 8, 1899,
was exhibited to the board. The board
as well as the representa- tves of the pa
per admitted that the paper was not
eligible under the statute to receive the
contract on that day. The protest urged
the further fact that the paper known
as the Alder Gulch Times had not been
published within the county the full
period of six months Immediately prior
to the awarding of the contract in that
1T had been printed and published in
Dillon, Beaverhead county, Montana,
for period of two months of the time
required by law.
Witnesses We're sworn and 1t was
proved beyond a doubt that such was
the case. Yet, so anxious was a GER
tain member of the board to bring his
favorite within the time limit that he
induced the board to postpone the mat
ter for six days, which postponement
the gentlemen and the Times attorneys
held would obviate the first objection
The board also decided by maj@r
vote. and in the face of preponderancc
of the authorities hat the fact that
the Alder Gulch Times had been printed
and published without the county for
period of two mouths would not in
validate its bid. "a
Then came the fun. 1t seemed that
nothing could keep the Alder Gulch
Times from getting away with it. hut
the member of the board who stood
sponsor for the Times in moment of
exultation, believing that its bid was
the lowest, proposed that the bills of a
previous year be figured on a basis OF
the bids submitted and that the con-
tract be awarded to the paper figuring
the lowest by that method This was
nd nah ~ al,, IT.
Times boosters. it was found that the
bid submitted by the Madisonian was
considerably lower for the year taken.
Whereupon a ma jority Of the board, In
compliance with its own offer to let TO
the lowest bidder, awarded the contract
to the Madisonan, but it was observed
by those present that the face of at
least one member of the board be-
traNed no more signs of pleasure than
it did when he heard that his f'rtla
scheme to keep State Senator Clark
away from the Welcome trial had
failed.
There is universal satisfaction among
the county officers and business men
generally over the result of the fight
The citizens of Madison county have
taken a just pride in the Madisonfan
for great number of years, and natu-
rally rejoice when it is successful in
any legitimate ENTERPRISE.
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