The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-04-23

pany Is held SO irresponsible we
wanted good bpnd 10 Ne sure that
you were not working a fake on MS as
has been your business custom for
years. and particularly when we learn.
ed from what seemed to us 10 be re-
sponsible sources that you had al
ready contracted IN st. Louis for an
initiation Of this above mentioned
Grade Of paper,-that the imitation
paper that YOU had contracted for to
nll the states order, was cheap
grade:-that while new and first used
would look all right, but was not Il
lasting quality fit for permanent rec
ords AS soon as we learned of this
fact. OF your intended duplicity, we
iiutiiied you ct what we lad heard
as above stated and warned You that
II would not be safe for you TO buy a
l1i of fake material and expect TO un-
load IL on the state. as we are advised
you were accustomed to do on your
territorial contracts.
The day that the bids were checked
up, you were notified that your bid
was accepted for Schedule Two and
you were directed to bring in yUiir
contract and bond Your bond was
not legally executed aud would not
have held the surety company in the
form you presented it.
We, that day, in your presence, told
you we would accept the surety com
pany on the showing of stability it,
agent then made, and we directed the
attorney general to prepare a form OF
bend that would protect the state In
a very fsw days the attorney general
had the bond form prepared and It
WAS given To you for execution. You
/ mad filed your original bid in dupli-
cate form One copy being locked
ur in our safe. the other copy you
borrowed to make your proposed con.
tract from. Last Monday You deliver
ed your proposed new contract with
the b2nd attached, together with copy
lof your bid as a part Of your contract
and you said tc me.--all these cop.
! les are truthful copies of your original
/ bid. On Tuesday morning we found
tby comparing the new contract forms
with the form OF your original bid,
thar one of the inside pages you had
4 scratched out the figures and word
1000 sheets which was part Of the
printed contract, ana had intorlined
1.-THE words per ream. You were well
laware Of the fact that ream. means
tive hundred sheets in the paper trade.
! hence, by this scratching and inter.
nnnc, your contract, you just doubled
the amount that the state would have
to pay, If we had been foolish enough
60 take your word for 1t and signed
the contracts without carefully read
ing every word of ihem You are al.
$50 aware that this little change, which
you interlined would have cost the
latate az least fifteen thousand dollars.
Let me ask you question
Why did you make this change and
then try 20 deceive The board by tel
ling thom that you had made no chan 6
lwhatevcr2
/ But 10 so further with answering
I lycur questi0ns,-W discovered this
lchango Tuesday and Immediately
wrote You. demanding your immediate
lpresence before the board We told
you Ia the letter that we had dis
I covered your trickery aud that we
lwcra wetng for an explanation. You
came bsfore the board in about "A
half an hour, bringing your clerk with
you. Your FIRST words on entering the
Injecting ROOM were that you had
I brought your clerk along because he
( had made the change and you knew
lncthing about Il and wanted him to
I leNplain H. He thepupon proceeded
TO try % explain. but his explanation
was simpS an admission that he had
made taa change without the kn0wl.
edge or cons nt OF tbe board and that
the eject of thascbange would be
what an of us "a niew Thereupon.
I want 10 WmhNiAuu. thar / asked
you % step 10 nay desk and ] showed
you aDur signature az the end Of the
contract and asked you Il that was
your ogn hand writing
You answered, Yes. of course"
then showed you the inside page
whore the words pcr ream" were in
teflined and asked you II you could
deny that that was also your hand
writing, and that II yuu did deny 81
we would have an expert ln ponman.
ship examine the writing.
You stood before my desk, pale as
ghost and trembling like whipped
cur and admitted m the presence of
the whole membership OF tho print
lug board. that SOU did interline those
words yourself
The very words that would have
given You. out oi the state treasury
about fifteen thousand dollars more
than ,nur original bid entitled you
90. r~f~g ~gseas9 q
Your only defense was that your
bid Al this increased price was sfill
the lowest, that yOu were entitled 10