Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1906-02-21
Editorial Comment
NOT KNAVES BUT NOODLES.

In awarding the printing obscure weekly
MARTINEZ the Board OF Supervisors have only committed
cgcgous bundcr defiance wishes of the
payers the county Judging the expressions opinion
heard for the past days the of this city 1t the
first time the history Of the territory that the printing
been given outside OF
instance of such ooness in the annals the California
The action of the board contrary all precedent opposed
public policy will be
which requires that proceedings of the supervisors shall be pub
ed paper Of general circulation The MARTINEZ News-IIcrad
under stretch Of the imagination be cassed the
Of paper Of general culatonone whose subscription
parts the county To hcrmaphrodc sheet
would be definition of its peculiar dictionary
affords for half of uates the lower of county and
under the guss Of the Wickenburg Miner with changed heading
also masquerade Of the Of Marcopa
county, .,..,.t
" The JohnalNinc has no fault find with Mr. Perkins for
attempting the contract That his privilege and he
congratulated for his perpaciy discovering that he
dealing with set OF duars He wise enough not to
make the circulation of his paper for he knew
that attempt compare with that of the Prescott papers would
eonake himself aud his assertions Supremacy ridiculous The
from the but AZ
Martinez and assuming that the Newserad reaches
(which mprobable) the of
county comprising precincts Congress- Gilbert
Grande. Hot Springs Walnut Grove Kirkland Briggs and Place
'ita that would only make total of Contrasting this small
muWber with the $3.50 pod county
occasion the county printing
hilarious farce and the of the board might by be
pretcd as bctraying symptoms of mental alteration.
1t is that the board hides itself behind the sub
teruge that the the MARTINEZ
lid the lowest but action the
ether contractha OF physician which the award
made to the highest bidder
AS matter Of cold fact, the board animated by
vcs of economy II why the bids rejected that first
opened February s. Had the lowest bids been accepted
that time for the county printing the register there would
have been saving of 81 50 t,.
Is possible order enable Mr. Perkins
raise his figures when he realized that he had mistake
bidding too low incidentally be explained here that the
MARTINEZ had done this work before being cxper
,nced character therefore bidding
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1t is understood that the supervisors attempting
their action the that the bids of the Journal
Miner cousvc This emphacay deny. and Colonel
Rogers whose word o honor and integrity has been
toned in this position do the il he thinks the
IT, Such assertion is prcpocous
Which made yesterday to the of the Journal Miner
certain supervisors palm had been creased"
In placing the county printing Martinez the
ave known that had they given the calm reflection
luk Of the SLIGO that To be paid for the work will spent
Phoenix Every consideration justice public poy and
ormity spirit of contract should
have been placed in Prescott r. X. N, ,,.
The action of the board intellectually
enton Office of the superintendent Of the hospital liter
been tried and convicted of audng the county reported
Than the of the board unanimous the county printing