Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-01-23
GEORGE JACOBSON, Publisher

we COH"TGluldle clear wafer CUuL
on being successful in electing
board of county commissioners fe;
less and honorable enough to &C
s.der the taxpayers interests in t.
matter OF letting the county printil
instead of paying campaign debts
awarding the contract, regardless
cost to the taxpayers.
The following, taken from the Cles
water Republican of January 18th,
50 applicable to Gilmore County, al
tie suggestion OF a widows pc
son" so appropriate, that We giN
the article in full:
I'm order to save the Orofino
Tribune the burden of doing
county printing at sacrifice, the
new county commissioners cam
celled the printing contract given
the Tribune Friday, the day be-
fore the old board went out of
office, and gave the work to- the
Clearwater Republican. In other
words the Clearwater Republican
is now the official paper of Clear
water County, and will be for the
ensuing two years. Briefly stated,
the retiring board, that is, Zelenka
and Torgeson, in violation of at
least every rule of decency, and
without regard to the best inter
ests of the taxpayers, gave the
printing to their own party organ
at five cents line for straight
matter and seven and a half cents
a line for tabular matter. The
new board accepted proposition
from the Clearwater Republ.ca
for three cents per Line for all
kinds of matter, and one and
one half cents per line for sub
sequent Insertions. This is
duplicate of the price the Re-
publican proposed a year ago,
and is the price this paper sug-
gested during the campaign. 1t
will result i'm a saving of at least
half over the recent Tribune
uea., and Is but THIRTY PER
CENT of the price the Tribune
charged during 1914.
1t would certainly be a fun
ny law that would compel the
taxpayers of this couny to sub
nit to c. nt.nued extortion ON PRINT
ing. Ii |. r. Crow must be sup
ported at public expense it would
De cheaper to vote the old grand
mother widows pension
If the $500 pension voted to Grand
/ Hackney by MessTs Butler and
A4lson we're all, it would not be
Cumbersome ON the taxpayers; but
len public servants fail to be i'm
ca with a desire to protect tn,
ipaying public, they are apt to re-
It TO questionable means for pay
: their political debts.
A county officials political debt is
id and over with, If paid by him.
f; but when paid for with the
money, 1T is never entirely
d, and he must continue to allow
J paper or party to get the better
the taxpayer, however and when
n an opportunity offers.
And while we are on the subject
county printing by contract, we
Mt to ask the new County Attor-
: to scrutinize two bills paid to
paper holding the contract for
last two years, one bill, October |
1918, for $500, one of October
1914, for$14.00. These bills were |
d by the county for notices pub
led in the paper that was award
the contract to publish all notices,
s, proceedings and publications
ich are a proper charge against
1 county of Elmore, for the sum
5000. Had our bid, (Which was
one hundred dollars less) been
epted, no notices that were a
per charge against the county,
I'D have been paid for extra. If
y We're not proper charges the
nty should not have paid them;
they We're proper charges they were