The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-01-24
That Bond Sale.

More than little comment has been
created by the snap bond sale affected
by Treasurer Kuhl and the denuncia-
t,on is not confined to republicans, nor
is it for partisan purposes.
THE REVIEW has always beenl dis
pc, ed to deal fairly with Mr.. Kuhl ard
at this time it has nothing personal
against the county treasurer.
In the matter of the band sales he
has proven himself either incapable of
being or unwilling to be fair and what
concerns US more he has lost to tie
Taxpayers not less than $780,
The grounds for the belief that Mr..
Kuhl was unfair may be briefly stated
as follows: He gave to MIR. Bechtel
the pledge that he should be allowed
chance ut second bid on the bonds
should his first bid be raised. This he
did not do although the county could
only have been the gamer by his so
doing.
AS to the date; January Goth was the
date as understood by almost every
party interested, so far as we have been
able to learn, except, possibly, MIR.
Kuhl.
The Denison papers printed Jan. 20
as the date and Mr.. Kuhl made no
effort at correction.
When on Jan 16 MIR. Kuhl gave
police that Bechtels bid had been
,--s-1Ns1 his attention was called to the
calenN Itwith the remark that this
gave but four days to get an answer
and one OF these Sunday. and still
Mr.. Kuhl made no effort to let MIR
Bechtel's representative know tina,
the 10Th not the Goth was the day set.
Mr.. Kuhl never mentioned the 10Th as
the date of the sale. He claims that
he said he would receive bids sup to
the 2O'' until the 20th''. Every bust.
ness man knows that such expressions
always mean and include the day
named: If Mr.. Kuhl meant the 10Th
why did he not say so? All this would
amount to little of public interest did
it not involve two things, first the
right to lay a charge of unfairness
against the county, and second a
pecuniary loss ct 81 g than $500 to
the tax.paYers.
Sc Bulletin says, "Mr. Kuhl is not
to t. s AIMED for handling the bond sale
in a straight, fair and business-like
manneft, with justice to all bidders"
The Bulletin knows that Mr.. Kuhl did
not do this, it knows that his action
amounted to unfairness, that it was I'M
business like, and that justice was not
done to all bidders Personally we
believe the editor of the Bulletin
agrees with US, but for party reasons
he wishes to smooth the matter over
with weak defense.
Is it not strange that the chairman
of the board, Mr.. Bechtel and his rep
resentatives, Mr.. Lally, representing
another party, the Bulletin. the RE
vIEW-all those interested. either per-
sonally or from news standpoint, un-
derstood the goth to be the date, that
Mr.. Kuhl made no effort to correct the
Impression, but opened the bids and
declared the bonds sold at P. M. on
the 10Th?
1t looks, that instead of being anx-
ious to obtain the most possible from
Mr.. Bechtel or any one else, Mr. Kuhl
was really afraid that if he waited until !.
the Goth higher bid might be received |
and the people get more money
We are informed that members of the
board are seriously considering the re-
scinding of the resolution empowering
Mr.. Kuhl to make the sale, refusing to
ratify the sale made and opening the
matter for renewed bidding. Should
this be done the premium would be
very apt to go up to much higher fig
ure than the $3.50 offered by Mr.
Bechtel.
Mr.. Kuhl attempts to justify his
action on the ground that in his tele-
gram of Jan. Goth Mr.. Bechtel did not
specify that he would also bear the ex-
pense of issue.
n the first place under Kuhl' 8 ruling
ould have made no difference had
/ tel's offer been $4,000 instead of
10. he bonds were already sold and