Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-02-27

lNduDOISS WHICH aic PVPc'
charge against said county Of FL
more, or any officer Of said
county and now required by law
to be published, or hereafter
required by law during the term
Of this contract; =. :.
"Said second party shall fur
nIsh said first party with bond
in the penal sum of one thous-
aand dollars for the faithful per-
Torrance Of this contract"
The New Time bid 5000, the Elmo
County Republican bid $500 and the
Glenns Ferry Gazette bid we do not
recall. 1t Is needless to say the New
Time got the contract although it was
one hundred dollars above the low
est bidder. So much for the letting
by bids two years ago. Now as to
this years Juggling, Tor as Mr.
Hackney calls 1t, "PREVAIIING Con
DITIONS") The forms were sthe
same but the Glenns Ferry Gazette
had changed editors and when the
present editor came to Mountain
Home to bid ON the county printing
he said as above, Subscriptions we
sell by the year, but space in the
paper we charge for at rate based
on what the consumer uses" and re-
fused to bid. The Republican bid
at the same price as two years ago.
more, as we are informed by the
editor, to see what juggling would be
done to keep him out of it, than any
expectation Of getting 1t, though
equipped az the Republican office is
and the kind of work to be done he
could have done we'll, and the tax
payers would have been saved
the sum of 100000. The Republi-
can bid was not opened, ON the pre-
text that they would not open where
there was only one bid, and the print.
ing contract was awarded to the
Elmore Times for $780, So the PRE-
VAIuING CONDITIONS" were in part
these: The Gazette would not bid
where the contract called for the do
ing of work that might hereafter be
required by law to be done during
the life of his contract; the Gilmore
Times did not have to bid to get the
work, and the Republican 3 bid was
not opened. Some more of the PRE-
VAILING CONDITIONS are, that in
the contract awarded to Mr.. Hack
ney all that uncertain and objection
able part compelling him to do any
printing that may hereafter be re-
quired by law during the life of his
contract was cut out and he has only
contracted to do what the law re-
Quired to be done at the time of
his signing the contract. ALL that
part of the contract above quoted
which is I'm bold face type was omit
ted from the contract given Mr..
Hackney, including the furnishing a
bond, although the board have SINCE
ordered him to file a bond in the
sum of $500, Just the face of the con-
tract, which at this writing has not
been done and whether done in the
future or not the fact remains that
Mr.. Hackney was awarded the con-
tract without his having furnished a
bond or the contract made conditions !
ON his doing so.
But time and space will let me re-
fer to only one more prevailing
at this time. re-
fer to Mr.. Hackney's item appear
ing In his effusion over again being
awarded the county printing contract
to the effect that i'm the future as in
ne past the commissioners would |
probably pay him for additional
notices that they might wish pub
lished that were not required by
l.w to be published. We wish to
take this occasion to say to Mr..
Hackney that as his contract covers
all notices etc. that are proper
charge against Gilmore county, the
only notices he can collect for out
side of his contract would be notices
that would be an improper charge
against Gilmore county. Rather
delicate operation, but under PRE-
vAILING CONDITIONS, he may have
D plan for doing it.
In looking for some of those EXTRA
pay notices that he spoke of lin the
past" we ran across one for $14.00
Of October 10, 1914 for printing a
notice required to be printed by law,
and which Is PROPER charge
against Elmore county; and as there
is no question but what that is COW
cred by his contract, we will have
to ask MIR. Hackney 20 return that
money to the county treasury, and
relieve US of the painful necessity OF
taking steps to force him to- do so.
It may be a little announcement to