Devils Lake weekly world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1911-1914, 1914-03-06
ABOUT THIS PRINTING GRAFT

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commissio. ners and everyday else con-.
nected with our county government,
that this county has a printing graft
and that the taxpayer of the county
arel having to foot the bills for print
ing and stationery, etc, at exhorbitant
prices. Nothing is further from the
truth. We have a board of county
commissioners together with a purchas-
ing committee, who are keeping close
track of.the county expenses, and all
printing is being furnished the county
cheaper than the same grade of goods
can. DO purchased by Il private individ-
ual. Since 1909, when the "only
democratic daily" lost control of the
board of commissioners, there has been
no such graft in this county. They
make a great ado about the price Of
a certain court calendar, which the
county paid 500 for to the Devils
Lake World. Now let US look into
this court calendar business and see
how il looks for the past number of
years:
For the January term of 1908, the
Devils Lake Journal furnished 200
court calendars and charged therefor
$1.0O per page. For the January, 1899.
term Of court this same concern furn-
ishcd a5O court calendars and charged
Ramsey county $1.20 cents per page.
Note their prices, one time they furn'
ished st. for $1.oo per page and the
very aext time they stuck the county
for $1.2o a page. In November, 1912,
(and, by the way this was before the
present management had anything to
do with The WORLDLY the World Pub
fishing Co.. furnished 800 court calen-
dars at the price Of $1.44 per page.
IN other words. here are the exact
prices paid apiece for these various
couit calendars and who furnished
them:
1908, the Journal Publishing Co.,
furnished the calendars and charged
"a dents each for the m
Id 1909, journal Publishing Co.,
furnished court calendars and charged
36 dents each for the same.
I1 1912, The World furnished the
court calendars and charged SO cents
each for the anne
March term, 1914, The World furn-
isheh,. the court calendars and charged
16 cents each for the same.
Nbw if there was any steal going
on, Eho did the stealingf The above
are 1.-The figures as made of record in
this county, and the Journal cannot
get hway from them by trying to warp
the Struth, and crying "stop thief"
in Order to try and detract the at
tentson Of the taxpayers from the real
issue.
TAX about graftl If that is the real
thing our brother would show up to
the Taxpayers of this county, let us
help him in his efforts. In 1910, when
the journal was in high standing with
the powers that be, that paper: publish
ed che Certificate Of Nominations, a
legal publication to be published in
the county. When the bill was put in
it called for $712.os and was duly
subseribed and sworn to by J. II.
Blodm, as being a true and correct
bill. But even the county commission
ers who were favorable to the Journal
and had been handing that paper ev
erything possible in the way of coun
ty printing, could not stand this coarse
work, and they used the K on the
bill 'cutting it to 1854. 95 (or a cut o.
the small sum Of $257. 13) and tn
jour mai took this amount and neve'
peeIed. Do you suppose they woult
hav1 done this if the bill had no
beef e%xhorbitant7 In other words
herd was am attempt to steal from tn
taxi payers of Ramsey county tn
small sum of $257.13-merely a haga
telld. In 1912 The World had tn
publishing Of the Certificate Of Nom
nations for this county, and for tn
SANG. they received only $165. 90. o
$2s4q5 less than the Journal receive
for:practically the same work in 1910
Tie: above statements are a matte
Of Record in our county offices an
cannot be disputed, and 60 to sho'
vefi .plainly who has been trying t
dol lie stealing. The tax payers o
til Stounty are not Interested in an,
s1thhper squabble. mol are we her
to tbSase and SANDER some Of our bes