The Bemidji pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami County, Minn.) 1896-1917, 1901-01-31
To Critic Haner
"A Partial Resume Of His C0ntOrted
Record as Auditor OF the
County OF Beltrami,
WHICH is ALMOST BANKRUPT
Through His Nearly Absolute Mis-
management of Its Affairs
Since Being in Office.

The Beltrami County News
went on the warpath in earnest.
last week and devoted nearly al
page to war whoops. We are too
busy to fight just now, but will
stop long enough to praise the
editorial ability of Auditor Haner
who talks real mean about the
PIONEER and its publishers. We.
are glad Mr.. Haner announces
that he will write more from time
to time. His last letter reveals d.
style Of argument which strongly
resembles the heavy editorials Of
Editor Martin. In fact, s'swad-l
ding clothes and ''mangy dog
sound so familiar that we can all
most believe Haner wrote that
article by deputy
There is some truth in Mr..
Haner's patriotic appeal. No
doubt he has been badly abused.
Our heart aches for him but we
cannot shed tear. His loss Of
standing, friends and peace Of
mind is the result Of aping old
Dog Tray deserving friends for
bad company. The PIONEER
helped put Mr.. Haner in office
and stood by him up to twoi
weeks proceeding last election.
Mr.. Haner says we have been
against him since January 19O0l
when he took the county print
ing away from us and went
around Dragging that the PIONEER
would soon bust. But he is
wrong We Thought II strange a
stllat i republican oflfiicial would
give the printing to newspaper
which had fought him, and ALI
other republicans, and we sus-
pected a rake-off had been de-
clared somewhere, but we said
never a word against Haner. The
Pioneer did not oppose his nomi-
nation last fall. But no sooner
was he nominated than he went
out trading votes with the popu-
lists to down certain other re-
publican nominees. All efforts
to get him to fall in line and work
with the party failed, and just
two weeks previous to election
we branded him a party renegade.
Against his character as a man
or official we said nothing. If Mr..
Haner will tell us who holds a
mortgage against any part Of the
PIONEER plant Outside of about
$500 on our cylinder press) we
will at once pay it off SO that he
can begin proceedings for crimi
nal libel against us at once.
Mr.. Haner slurs himself when
he says for three years the Plo-
NEER charged more than legal
rates for printing. It is one of
the auditors duties especially as
purchasing agent, to fight all
Illegal bills. Why didn't he do
so! The truth is, and Mr.. Mar
tin has more than once called at
tention to it, that Mr.. Kaiser in
those days called an inch of sin
gle column matter a folio. By
such measure, the county was
the gamer.
About the county ballot deal,
we have a new question 60 ask.
When the county auditor and the
News man decided to leave Com
missioner Johnson's name off the
official ballot, the ballots were
hurredly printed without regard
to law. When they were ordered
by the court to put that name on
the ballot, the ballots for John
sons district were reprinted.
Who paid for this little spiteful
play? Was that one reason why
the bill for official ballots looks
large to the. taxpayers
The printing of all the ballots
for the last past election was
done in the Pioneer Office for Mr..