The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1906-06-15

mand for the. wheat of North Dakota
farmers. Personally, he was one of the
representatives that voted himself mile
age from Washington to Fargo and back,
during the closing of one term Of cohg-
ress and the opening of another; which
journey took place, in his Imagination,
in the space of time that it took the
speaker to strike his gavel twice on the
desk IN front OF him. One session open
ing as soon as the other closed.
Fourth, would-be but never-was and
.never-will-be Governor George B.
Winship. Mr.. Winship's forte is that of
an honorable" The domination of the
"boss" is his fetish. He has evidently
learned the badness OF the bosses by his
habits of Stunning with them in the
sinks Of iniquity. For he has had no
other associates in the political arena for
his lifetime except the men whom he
now. denounces as thieves and robbers.
And now comes the Grand Forks Times
with what it claims to be documentary
evidence that this honorable" this 'im-
maculate" is party to the creation of a
printing monopoly through which the
state is made to pay exorbitant prices for
its public printing and the proceeds
shared among the members of the trust.
The procedure was as follows:
Under the plea of patronizlng home in
stitutions law was passed by the legis-
lature that all public printing and sup
plies OF that sort must be purchased by
the state and the counties in the state, of
printers and binders within the state.
The facts are that at the time when the
law was passed that there were only four
printing establishments in the state that
could furnish the bound books and ruled
blanks needed. Hence, it is easy for the
reader to draw his own conclusions as to
the parties who were interested IN get
ting the patriotic law passed. Then
these four concerns formed trust and
pooled the profits. In a signed agree
ment printed in the Times, the Herald
company agrees to pay to the other
members of the monopoly thirty-six per
cent of the proceeds of the share OF
printing that came to it through the ac-
ceptance of its tender or ''bid''
against the bids of the other members oil
the same monopoly. Of course, under
such circumstances the amount of each
bid was arranged by the parties at in
terest beforehand, and the share of print
ing that each should do and divide with
the others was also agreed to.
We do not know how extravagant the
bids were to the state, but we know tina,
under the law the State had no other
thing to do but to accept such figures as
the members of the trust chose to make,
and If the Herald could afford to give
away thirty six per cent OF the proceeds
to the others, then after keeping profit
for itself, the price to the stare could moi
have been "a very small one.
That's, Of this honorable quartette
who ask to be made bosses Of the
politics Of this state at the primary elec.
ton next Tuesday.
Major Murphy is under the charge ol
grating in highway labor.
Joe Devine is guilty Of grating in
salaries. s5s s 1.
B. F. spalding is an attempted CRATER
Of salaries.
George B. Winship i 4 member Of the
printers graft
One half ofthe delegates on. the Re,
publican ballot represent these -four
grafters. What can you expect Of these
grafters i they get control Of things
Voters make no mistake when you
mark your ballots next Tuesday.