The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1908-01-16
BOW TO BOSSES
County Commissioners Line Up
For Times and Nordstern
IGNORE OTHER bids
V0lc Count MOney away 10 S0sses
When They MIGHT Have Saved
Several Hundred; Dollars

Merely the announcement that The
Board Of County Commissioners had
awarded the county prinj in. at fifty
per cent OF the legal rate came over
the telephone last Thursday shortly
before The Herald went to press.
The Herald now has in it's possession
full history of the deal, and submits
it herewith for the information and
delectation of it's readers, including
the county commissioners.
AS stated last week, the board, at
its first meeting on Tuesday morning,
Jan. {, opened two bids, one from the
s.. Cloud Times at full legal rates,
and one from the Journal-Press for
one-half legal rates, the Journal-Press
Offering to publish all proceedings free
OF charge TO the county, in the Daily
and Weekly Journal-Press, Sank Cen.
tire Herald, the Melrose Beacon, the
Paynesville Press, the Cold Springs
Record, the Albany Tribune and the
Richmond Standard. The board, on
motion of Commissioner Kowalkowski
of st. Cloud, postponed consideration
until a. M, Thursday, Jan. 8.
From the time the commissioners
met, Fred Schilpin, business manager
of the Times, and Frank Zins, man
aoer of Dor NOrd ctarp wara constant
attendants upon the members of the
board, individually and collectively
Tuesday evening these two chaperones
took the members of the board to the
ten cent theatre on Fifth Avenue, all
expenses of the trip being betrayed by
the hosts. On Wednesday evening the
commissioners were the guests of
Messers. Schilpin and Zins at wine
supper at the Elks club rooms. Real
champagne was in evidence, and &C
cording 10 reliable accounts there was
no drouth.
Thursday morning, at 9 o'clock, the
board met. The Times and Der Nord-
stern were represented by Attorney ].
D. Sullivan, Theo. Bruener and G. w.
Stewart appearing for the Journal
Press. Mr.. Sullivan spoke in behalf of
his client. informing the commission
ers that they had the right to reject
all bids and then designate an official
paper. After an address by Attorney
Bruener the board voted to reject
both bids. Commissioner Ig. Kramer
of Cold Springs then pulled from his
pocket a typewriter resolution des-
ignating the Times the official paper
at one half legal rates. Attorney
Bruener called Kramer to order by
informing him that no bid had yet
been submitted by the Times, and
Attorney Sullivan then put in bid
for that paper at one-nalf legal rates.
At this juncture Attorney Stewart
put in new bid for the Journal-Press,
Offering to do the printing at One-half
of the Times new bid, or one fourth
legal rates. this bid being backed by
the six papers mentioned in the first
bid
The bid might as well have been
thrown into the Mississippi river, for
all the good it did to submit it; for
Commissioner j. H. Garfield of Sank
Centre, Immediately moved that the
Times be designated as the official
paper at the new rate it had SUBMIT
ed The motion carried, Garfield and
two others voting for it. Kowalkows-
Xxi shriveled up in his chair, looked
foolish and did not vote at all. Chair
man Henry Meyers Of Albany, where
the Tribune comes from, declared the
vote carried and the board adjourned
Just as soon as it could, the attorneys
for the Journal-Press filing notice of
protest.
The case summarized is this: The
seven papers having saved the county
over $1,000 by forcing the Times to
have saved the county some $500 more
had their second bid been accepted.
The commissioners "stood pat" from
start to finish for the Times and Der
Nordstern and ignored the rights OF
the other papers and of The taxpayers.
The Times charges that it is an at
tempted political deal. The fact is
that there was no politics in it except
what the Times, Der Nordstern, and