The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-04-11
Pioneer Press Asks Why Not Tell The Truth in its Issue
of March e. in Answer to the Expose by the Producers
News its Scandaous Robbery Sheridan County in the
Printing of the Primary Baots---The Truth Follows
Primary Ballots are Cheaper Some Places
Never Made A Cent Says Gang Organ" Yet
$6O,00405 is what Dolin Got From County in
Three Years.

Did the Paytriotc Pioneer Press
Profteer?
That subsidized organ of the gang
that has plundered the taxpayers of
Sheridan County out of $4,000 dur
ing the past ten months says the al
legations of the Peoples Paper are
ridiculous, and slanderous, and "to
take any exception to them or offer
any contradiction by the Pioneer
Press or its editor, whom the ar
ticles are intended to SANDER, is but
waste of time and valuable space" !"
Under the editorial head of 'Why
Not Tell the Truth" the following
humorous aswer to the facts and
figures published in the Producers
News, appeared in the Pioneer Press,
and are reproduced that the farmers
OF Sheridan county may peruse and
have laugh.
For CUTS the Pioner Press has a
fertilizer factory backed off the
board.
Why Not Tell the Truth
The Producers News, in several of
its recent issues as well as the Doc
ley Sun and few other minor peri
Odicals throughout the county have
been devoting large portions of their
first pages to articles, led off with
real big town scare heads, inform
ing Cd or rather mis-informing
their readers about what they are
pleased to call the county printing
contract scandal The articles in
question are so far without founda-
tion and carry so little semblance of
truth as to make them ridiculous in
the extreme, and to take any excep-
ton to them or offer any contradic-
ti0n by the Pioneer Press or it's edi-
tor, whom the articles are intended
to slander, is but waste of time and
valuable space.
The Producers News has misrep-
resented and distorted the facts and
figures in the case in a vain attempt
to mislead its readers and make them
believe that the county has paid an
exorbitant price for its printing un-
der the present contract. Why is it
Chat those papers so carefully guard
from their readers the fact that
Sheridan County is getting its print
ing done for thirty per cent less than
the statutory rate, the rate which
the legislature of the State of Mon
tana placed on the statute books as
being fair and equitable one. Why
not tell their readers the truth, that
numerous other counties throughout
the state are now paying and have
for several years been paying the
full statutory rate.
"All We have to say is this, the
printing contract is on file at the
court house, it is public property
and open for all to inspect, all
claims and bills for printing done
under this contract shows that print
ing for Sheridan county must be
delivered at A Saving To The COun-
ty Of Thirty Per Cent less than the
rates and prices as allowed by law
to be charged for such printing. All
bills are in conformity with such
contract and any interested taxpay"
er may satisfy himself on this score
by inspecting contract and claims
filed and thereby verify the truth
fulness or untruthfulness of the
statement made in the undertaking,
slander sheets by men of the Red
Flag Taylor type and pusillanimous
characters such as rube vezina.
"Any sane, level4headed person
who viii but stop and think a NOM
ent will realize that the furnishing
of all printed matter, supplies and
blank books for a large county the
size of Sheridan, costs a large sum
of money, and more especially dur
ing a year when two elections are
held necessitating the large amount
of election supplies, however the to-
tai which Taylor and his followers
would have you believe was paid by
this county. during the past year is
i'm no manner correct as he includes
several bills for supplies furnished