The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-28

In it's issue Of the 9Th the editor Of
the Dixie Advocate again donned his
mask and sailed forth with his little
piece of lead pipe slung i'm an old
stocking. This time he was after the
county commissioners and the county
clerk (the loyal board, as he pleases
to term them.)
The board had siuned, at least so
said the Advocate editor, And thus 1t
was, am election coming ON this fail,
the commissioners as their duty re-
uuiTes sought to purchase the election
supplies There were three bids sub
mitted, as our quilldriviug friend IN an
outburst of truth admits, but mis-
didn't happen TO be the lowest tai
though he had made frightful en-
deaVOr TO that end, and he lost, ana
Shelton Publishing company of Provo
won. This was awful and the editor
. felt EWfuler. And i'm his mad unrea-
son he struck out with his lead pipe,
he knew not where, and as so OIten
results from fury unrestralned, ne
struck himself worst of all, completely
shattered his own argument and Wei
nigh forfeited all claim TO the common
characteristics OF manhood.
Now let US the tale unfold. Inc
Dixie editor called up the clerk and
asked him TO give them chance 10
I bid on the election supplies and al me
same time told him that Mr.. Ewing Of
the Nephi Record was on his way down
[ looking after contracts He received
I the reply that no action would be tax
en- without giving him chance TO put
I In a bid. Some little time elapsed
when the editor came Ia person ana
/ inquired as TO what bids were IN, ana
was told that the NepEi Record and
/ Shelton had put in bids. Then our
/ loyal editor asks that he be allowed TO
see the bids, which the clerk very
properly refused to permit. The edt-
( tor did a little stunt about Ii being no
I secret and If they were very low ne
wanted to know IL, as he might not
want TO bid, etc. But IL was no go. lie
was told that he knew what he could
DO and might submit his own bid &C
COrdingly. He was much Tuffled at TINS
( lin fact, entirely unit TO go out IN
/ quest Of his society news. lie pre-
/ scented more the appearance of one who
had slipped on piece of orange peel
or some other nasty thing. Shame
and modification We're depicted on ms
face. And as all i'll IempeTs unchecked
always do, he was led TO do worse. he
went out. hunted up the chairman and
/ asked him TO come over and pry those
+ bids open in spite of the clerk. This
f tie chairman Indignantly refused TO do-
I He now goes TO the county attorney TO
find out if some way could not be con-
/ COCIed to pry the lid off those gosh,
/ goIdarned. tarna ton. beiiggcTed daTua-
ton bids. His pulse was high. his face
red and his brain feyered. If relief did
not come in some form he would have
Z to stuff the next Washington county
edition of the Iron County Record with
I all Iron county news. A long suffering
people might then kick, a little of
which has already been done, with
: more to follow.
The present falling him. he would
! consult the past He found figures on
years not presidential and by q brill
liant manipulation of his grey matter
( decided that a cut below such a year
would beat all of those Internal mod
/ eru robbers who were seeking to pill
/ iage his beloved winter home, Wash
/ iugr0n county, and thus deprive his
] beloved summer home, Iron county, Of
all this work. VIXEN his think tank
gave birth to this bright scheme he
/ gave vent TO wild and eXultant yells,
/ his Office girl fled to the street shout
/ ing that Charley had taken to drink
I and that he was Interviewing his nrSt
I dose of snakes. But this was not so.
/ Charley does not drink and he never
sees snakes except when he sees the
/ loyal board.
5.But alas. the plans Of mice and men
gang aft agiee' Charley was still TOO
/ high, and he didn't gang aglee. either:
/ he was hopping mad, and tried to say
+ things iu such a way that shows plain
/ Iv that he. thinks his little paper is
( supported by the people ia order TO
I give him chance to vent his spleen
upon them. and club them just when
/ ever he thinks that he would enjoy the
I fuu A word OF advice TO the dear boy,
Z the editor IS lost who thinks his paper
/ is but the vehicle for the distribution
/ Of his own vile abuse.
As TO keeping money at home, where
( IS the difference in sending money to
] Provo. or Cedar2 The Dixie Advocate
I is printed i'm Cedar Nearly all their
I Job work is done there. II they get our
+ election contract the work would have
/ been done at Cedar. They admitted
/ that they could not make ali of the
I various items and would have to suDlet
them. They pirate aCout being I'm close
touch. avoiding decays, etc, There
( would be ten times the danger with a
f. firm that could not do the work than
/ with one that can and would. and.
I above all. has the necessary experience
. which they have not.
The board has no right TO legislate
I in favor OF one county above another
( when eXpeudiuE the peoples money.
+ Nor has SC the moral right to dicker
. with one firm TO the detfment of am
other A fair field and no favor should
be its motto, and was I'm this case.
The EDITORS advice 10 the voters
won't go. He is disguIut1ed and that
is a lithere is to it,
Desiring to treat our editor friend i'm
a fair and square manner we came
right out in the open and submitted To
him "a plain and simple statement Of
the facts I'm regard to this little tiff. and
asked that it be published i'm the issue
Of the Esd. The representative i'm
charge here said that ne did not know
whether Charley would want 20 enter