Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-04-14

abuse of this paper to have refused
TO have issued the warrant. But as
neither the board nor this very zeal
Gus auditor have filed any objections
TO our bills we cannot help but tend
to belief that they were all within
the price allowed by law.
William lays great stress upon
5000 tax receipts and the price
charged therefore. S1ii.00. On this
proposition we would like to be
heard for a minute, In the fall OF
1902 COUNTY Auditor Egeland came
into the Reporter and Farmer office
with the copy of a tax receipt in
his hand and stated that he wanted
5000 original and 5000 duplicates.
He asked both of the proprietors OF
this paper if they could print the
Job for Sl44.00. We examined the
job and saw there was "A profit in
the work at that price and therefore
took il at the price offered. We did
not set the price that was done by
Mr.. Egeland. If that price was
exorbitant the county auditor is to
l1n4,. e.. "a w, i,A-. hN,p.y-at.
that no office will take the job and
get out one single set of tax receipts
for S41.00. The reason that Per-
kins Bros. can do the work cheaper
than n local office is that they
have men on the road soliciting this
kind of work and have the receipts
of many counties to print and the
same form can be used for them all
with but slight change.
We want to say further that at
the time we got the order for these
tax receipts was about the time that
Mr.. Egeland was flirting with the
republican party in the hopes that
when he was nominated on the
populist ticket the republicans would
nominate nc n against him for his
second term as auditor. We want
to add that he made an agreement
with some Of the influential repub-
Leans at that time that if the repub-
licans did not nominate d man on
the ticket against him, his brother
would 90 into the republican party
that fall and that he would do no
work for the other populist can
didates and that the next campaign
would find him a true blue republi-
can. In other words he traded the
party that brought him into prom
for personal advantage. OF
this may had some influence
upon him in the price he offered for
the e5unty's work. He was making
a good fellow out of himself.
The county auditor went down to
Pierre during the last Legislative
session and while there made a
deal whereby he delivered his infiu-
ence in this county to Mitchell in
the capital contest. We do not say
he got paid for this influence.
William is above accepting pay for
anything. He was a free will offer
IL was here that the Reporter
seemed to come into disfavor. We
could not see the matter in the same
light az he did, therefore his infu-
ence was not sufficient so he could
do anything he wanted to with us
therefore we were cnt off his favored
list.
Mr.. Egeland says we asked him
for the tax list of 1908. Will has
got so in the habit Of prevaricating,
or lying if you will, that the truth
is not in him. He knows that we
never approached him for those
receipts.
We would have had no trouble
with the county auditor this year,
and would have continued to bask
in the sunshine Of his favor had we
been able to see the great political
gain Of the republican party nomi-
William Egeland for state
senator this fall, and also the same
party presenting his brother, Sig
Egeland, one Of the best deputy
ships in the court house agreeing
further when Mr.. Grue's second
term as register of deeds had expired
nominate and elect Sig to that