Semi-weekly herald., 1910-01-27

Mr.. eeouton was compelled 70
vote no. although ~ shove stated,
he favored the Wallace bridge and
waited to vote for It, but could
NOT Do SO without stultifyina him
ssn.
Thus the taxpayers will have
70 pay something like 1880 for
. useless bridge and located at .
point not connected by road and
seldom used. And this 10 a sam-
pie Of the way the peoples money
Is being sauandered by the COM
bine and accounts for the boy
eettins OF Commissioner seouton
bscsuse he will not stand for the
work. It was especially iiiustrat-
Cd when the robbins printing bills
wore allowed, = regular steal and
we are prepared to prove II and
will do so later on. And this in
the face Of the commissioners be-
+. ing warned in advance Of tile rob-
berry, not only In the bills to be
allowed At the time the letter was
written, but attention was called
to the robbery and illegal bills
filed and allowed during the year.
Mr.. ecouton, having taken oath
along with other members, to ad-
minister the affairs Of the county
honestly, could not vote for the
allowance Of the bills when in
formed Of the situation.
And when II came to letting Of
printing contracts for this year
Messrs. Tovrea and Reister made
no more pretense to looking after
the interests Of taxpayers than as
though they had been wooden
men. The county advertised for
bids for legal and commercial
printing. The Herald put in a
bid that would have saved tho
county $500 to 5000 during the
year, according to bills allowed
last year, but this made no diff
ference with the combine commits
sionerr. The fact that the Demo-
erat had put in a bid year ago
and then robbed the county out
Of hundreds Of dollars above what
even the law allows, made no diff
ference. Mr.. Scouton would not
stand for the robbery.
: rhs Herald realizes that II is a
hard proposition fighting the peo-
pies batties-that Il costs money
to 90 II single handed, but we
never lie down, and the courts
will be called upon for relief not
only for the purpose Of ascertain
Ing II the commissioners have a
right TO pay double for printing,
but also II the commissioners
have 4 right, aftar being Informed,
to pay out hundreds Of dollars H.
legally. II is high time something
was done to protect the interests
Of the taxpayers and we are pre-
pared to fight the battle through
the highest courts, " necessary.
=! u the law 10 to be ignored in
tbs. matter Of printing what is to
/, prevent the same conditions in ,es-
psnditurs Of money In other chan
/, nels. Why not permit one under
taking company $50 for burying
;PsVpers when some other COM
,,pans Will furnish sans thing for
ye1o; why not pay some hotel a
sdoi+ar whsn some other landlord
will serve the same meal for 35
Gents, and - on down the line.
And Il would not be 30 bad II
printing contract was honestly
Lived up to last year, but we state
most positiveiY there. was a steal
-and the combine comm missioners so
informed, but in face Of this the
.3raft bills were allowed-in some
eases almost double to what the
= law allows and the law permits
very liberal rate for papers in this
stats.
We do not believe the courts Of
Colorado will stand for the dirty
'work. Al any rate we are going
down the line and find out both In
city and county.