The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-01-08
COUNTY PRINTING
TO St. CLOUD times
BID OF OUTSIDE PAPERS SAVING
COUNTY NEARLY $1,000
CUTS NO FIGURE.
LITTLE JOE" WHOLE WORKS
FINAL VOTE THREE TO TWO
SERVICE AND COST NOT
CONSIDERED.

Little Joe" is the whole works.
That was demonstrated quite clear
Iy at the meeting Of Board of County
Commissioners at st. Cloud Tuesday
morning.
Last year the combined county
newspapers outside the City Of St.
Cloud, put in bid for the county
printing at 80 per cent Of the legal
rate. Little Joe" and Fred Schiplin of
the Times, were at "outs" then over
the postofice, and for the first time
in the history of the county the print
ing was let to newspapers published
outside the City Of st. Cloud.
Mayhap Fred has promised Little
Joe" the postoffice again. At any
rate there is harmony in St. Cloud
camp once more.
Never before in the history of the
county has the proceedings of the
board and other county matters been
given as wide publicity as during the
past year, and the taxpayers outside
of st. Cloud were anxious to have the
arrangement continued.
The Herald as representative of
the newspapers outside of st. Cloud
put in a bid to do the work at about
two-thirds of the legal rate. This bid
carried with it the circulation of the
county matters in every paper in the
county and also provided for the cir
culation of several hundred copies in
the city of St. Cloud.
The st. Cloud Times put in bid at
legal rates agreeing to circulate the
proceedings, statement, ETC., in the
Daily Times, the abortive Weekly
Times and The Nordstern, a German
weekly.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
Herald bid would have given the tax
payers of the county the best possible
service, it would have saved them in
the neighborhood of $1,000 during the
year.
But what does a few hundred or a
thousand dollars of the peoples money
amount to when it is necessary to pay
off a political debt?
The Herald editor has attended
several political conventions in his day
and has seen several raw" deals put
over, but never before has anything
come under our observation equaling
the stunt of Tuesday. We have often
heard of the st. Cloud way Of doing
things but this was our first opportun-
ity Of observing at close range.
Mr.. Loso who is commissioner by
accident and who will more than likely
retire with the beginning of another
year, moved to accept the Times bid.
There was no second. Mr.. Garfield
moved to accept the bid of the Herald
and Val Herman promptly seconded
the motion. The question was called
for but Little Joe" refused to put
the motion. At this stage of the
game Little Joe''had happy thought
and pulled off stunt that probably
has never been paralelled in any de-
Lucrative or legislative body. He
called Vice Chairman Garfield to the
chair and seconded the motion Of
Loso, Notwithstanding that there was
already one properly made motion be-
fore the commissioners.
Meanwhile Commissioner Weber
was having a very uncomfortable ex-
perience, if facial expressions were
any criterion of his feelings. AS late
as hast Saturday, the Herald under
stands, Webber promised several of
his constituents that he would vote
for the bid of the printers outside of
st. Cloud, if their bid was the lowest.
Mr.. Hanna one of the publishers from
Webber's district was present and
keeping cases on him. In voice
scarcely above a whisper, Weber
asked for secret ballot The result
gave the Herald two and the Times
three votes. There can't be any doubt
as to who cast the third vote as Mr..
Weber was the man holding the key
TO the situation.
In his talk before the board Mr..
Mcdonald stated that he had been in
business in Stearn county for thirty
nine years and that he had had the
county printing every year but one.
rrha Inference from Mr. McDonald's