The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1922-06-02
Dolin SHES at Co.
Printing Contract

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to be heard, and again, this time with
out Mr.. Quinn who seemd to embar-
rass them by his statement Of facts,
and deliberated for hours before Jud
Watkins could inject enough courage
into his puppets to get them to go out
into the commissioners chambers and
publicly vote, in the presence of hon.
est men, to again give the printing
contract to Joe Dolin as had been ar
ranged the previous Sunday evening.
Finally the commissioners came in,
reported that Dolin's bid was much
the lowest, and without reading the
bids publicly or discussing the same,
Watkins moved the acceptance Of
Dolin's bid, and Ibsen seconded the
motion and the same was passed un-
animously. At the time of voting
Tyler and Ibsen We're ghostly pale and
trembling and Tyler had to be asked
twice before the clerk could hear his
vote. And now it seems that the
Dolin bid contains joker, or "out"
for Dolin and that as a matter of fact
his bid is not the low bid at all.
Whether Or not Tyler or Ibsen was
aware of the joker all of the time is
a matter of conjecture, but from the
manner in which they handled the dis
cussion and the letting of the contract
it would seem that they were fully
advised Of the matter, for if an open
discussion of such public business as
is expected in a free country by and
on the part Of its officers had taken
place, the joker in the bid would have
been brought out at once, and fraud
on the part of Dolin in his very bid
would have been disclosed, but the
Board did not care to discuss the mat
ter where the citizens, any one of
whom are more competent and more
intelligent than they are, could hear.
THE JOKER
Dolin made his bid for the most
part by headings, biddin certain per-
centage off from the statutory rates.
ltemizlng few items, but at the end
of his bid he had the following para
graph:
All other blanks, blank books.
stationery, election supplies, loose
leaf forms and deyises, and 9TH
er printed forms requiied for the
use of such county to be furnish
ed, at the rates provided i'm the
code above referred to-
Practically 10 per cent of the
printing required by the county does
not perfectly classify, and if an item
or books does not, it will be seen bv
studying the paragraph above, that
these items will be furnished at
basis of full code price, and as there
is no code price indicated, it means
that Dolin can furnish these numer
Gus items at any price that he may
see mt to charge just as he has in the
past. Ihls paragraph makes Dolin's
Dld the highest instead of the lowest
bid and it means that the Board of
County Commissioners deliberately
met in secret and again handed to
Dolin the printing of Sheridan coun-
ty on the basis of the highest bid, vet
in apologizing for the giving of the
contract to Dolin after three wears
of continuous litigation they said Do
Inns bid was the lowest, which they
knew all of the time to be untrue.
MAY HAVE SWITCHED BIDS
Nobody can go on the witness
stand and swear that the bids now
presented by Dolin as the one he sub
mitted to the county in competition
for the contract is the one that he
has made the basis of the contract
OR not. When the bids were submit
ted they We're sealed and the filing
stamp was placed upon the envelope
and when they were opened there
were no Identification stamps placed
upon the contracts and as they were
Juggled about between several per-
sons, the commissioners do not now
themselves know anything about the
bids and no one could possibly iden-
tify any of them.
JOE WILL PROBABLY WIN
Next Monday the printing contract
will probably come up again. The
commissioners do not need to sign
contract with Joe if they don't
want to, and honest men after the
discovery of this joker would not
want to, but the contract can vet he
given to. some other paper. If TYLER
and lbsen give the contract to Joe it
viii be because they want to do SO
and because all of their talk in re-
gard to economy and fair play is lust
simple camoufage and for public con-
sumption, while they in fact have
joined Jud Matkins for the purpose
of the further fleeing of the taxpav-
ers of Sheridan county The people
of Sheridan county when they elect
ed Tyler and Ibsen thought they were
electing honest men, and it is with
considerable regret that they behold
them thus betraying their trust and
betraying those whose efforts honored
them by placing them in places of
great honor and great power, thus
disgracing both themselves and their
families, and making themselves in
famous where they should be honored
and respected. It causes the Producers
News great pain to say so and to
confess it, but it is it's honest convic
ton, that when the Commissioners
meet next week, that they will throw
out the contract constructed on the
understood basis of Dolin's bid by
Erickson and Vollum and
take the one drawn up by Hurd
& Norris. Such action will be con-
sistent with the giving of the con-
tract to Doin last week, and it is a |
safe prediction, that once Dolin gets
the contract signed up, which he with
out a doubt will, he will present his
claims to the county without any
regard to the contract and <ha Cn,,r-