Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-03-24

night in an adjourned session to con
slider the reconsideration of paving
Johnson Avenue, also the side street
leading up to the Delaney property,
and north to the DR.. Britain corner,
opposite the garage. Ordinance to
this effect was passed, and when it
came to having it printed the village
clerk read bid from the Clearwater
Republican offering to print it and
any other ordinances the village
might have at S cents per line for
first insertion, and 2Ac per line for
subsequent insertions, point type,
making the bid clear and definite.
At the previous meeting the council
had paid I. R. Crow $50 for this same
ordinance, or just twice the price of
our bid. Councilman Frank Jones
said that it was nobody's business
where or how the council spent their
private money, but in spending public
funds they should get as much as pos
sible for every dollar. Councilman
Will Noble could not see why they
should pay more for printing than
they could get it for, and asked if
any of the members would pay cents
per pound for sugar if they could get
it for cents per pound? Mr.. Grow,
of the Tribune had in no bid, and
said he didn' see why he should bid
that ne was entitled to the village
business at TEN CENTS per line, and
had the nerve to tell the council that
the law required them to pay Ten
Cents per line, and that it was moth
ing but meanness and spite that
prompted the Republican to submit a
bid at exacty half the rate charged by
himself; that the council must pay
$50 when it could get the identical
service for $40, and then gave the lie
to his own argument by cutting his
price to $50, or SO per cent more than
the Republican bid. Mr.. Crow said
he must have these public jobs with
velvet, which simply means an
enormous profit, or he could not stay
in business; that he was having an
awful hard time trying to keep the
Orofino Tribune from going to the
wall; that the taxpayers must be
skinned for his benefit. Further Mr..
Crow assured the council that the Re-
publican could not make any money
at the price it submitted, when
Councilman Jones proposed letting the
: Republican have it and thus go broke,
which was Wharf.-The Tribune and Mr..
E Zelenl,a wanted.
Curtis and Zelenka were for he
: Tribune regardless of price, and when
it came to vote Councilman Noble.
after his discourse on sugar, voted for
the Tribune, paying that paper $50
over the offer Of the Republican to do
the same work for $40. In other
| words Mr.. Noble paid cents a pound
for sugar when he was offered the
e same sugar for 4 cents per pound
But prehaps it is alright when pub
r lie official is spending the taxpayers
e money.
Mr.. Zelenka said he would not let
f the Republican do the work at any
. price, and that he considered the Re-
/. publican very bad paper; that i,
i had never done the community any
: good.
The Republican lays no claim te
: great accomplishments, but we die
I help to save Clearwater county from
bankruptcy and did save the people
thousands of dollars by helping to re.
tire this gentleman as a county com.
missioner. We did help put a stor
to the raid on the county funds; we
did stop the robbery of the people out
of interest on public money deposited
in banks without interest to the
people; we did try to prevent Mr..
Zelenka and the gang from imposing
the Nease cruise on this county; we
did stop the printing graft. enjoyed b,
the Tribune; we did expose the boot.
Logging graft running rampant ir
Clearwater county during Mr.. Eel.
enka's term as commissioner we die
expose the extravaganza and graft
that piled up warrant Indebtedness
on the people of 1926, 900, and in the
face of the positive assurance from
Mr.. Zelenka that the county was ou,
of debt.
And lastly, and of Importance te
the people, is the fact that neithe,
Mr.. Zelenka nor the Tribune car
grasp-after election the Clearwater
Republican practiced what it hac
preached before election-it has don.
county printing at the figure it agreed
during the campaign.
III Our bid Monday night was consider
ably higher than our county bid, anc
we are frank to inform the peopl.
that we can print their ordinances al
half the legal rate if they will cleo
men to Office who will not use yillag,