The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1922-11-03
And the Truth Does Not Hurt ANY Onen Spite of Attorney
Gunthes Long-winded Argument, In Behalf of the De
mocratic Ticket
TRUTH RATHER MISLEADING IN SOME PLACES

The Truth is out at last. It could
not be suppressed much longer and
have it accomplish very much before
election-so it just had to come out
The truth is the democratic circular,
written by Mr.. Gunther, in which he
tries to make black white and white
black, but being handicapped quite
| badly for the want of facts, he did not
accomplish as much as might have
been expected even from Mr. Gunther
The Truth is the Democratic County
| circular, has been sent to every voter
in the county.
| In this circular, called the truth,
Mr.. Gunther tells several pointless but
nevertheless entertaining stories, and
puts into print considerable pure ic-
ton. The whole arguments hinges
about something, most people do not
know what, but sifted down, it
amounts to a quotation of a section Of
the financial report as published last
summer, in which Mr. Gunther at
tempts tot show that the farmers can
didates spent more money than should
have been spent in the administration
of their offices, stating just how much
| it should have cost to have administer
ed the different Offices ifN real figures,
but not disclosing just how those fig
ures are arrived at. In truth, only
half of the truth is actually told in
some instances, especially, concerning
be that Mr.. Gunther resorted to decep
ton and half truth in regard to the
costs of running Mr.. Links office?
After considering the facts as to
county government as set forth in an
other column fthis paper, which
shows, considering area of the county,
that Sheridan county has the most
Economically administered county in
the state, and after considering what
it has cost to maintain the different of
fees in the past, and what it costs to
| maintain same Offices in other counties,
Mr.. Gunther's claims that different of
| fees in Sheridan county should have
been run cheaper than they have, falls
and falls like card house.
Mr.. Gunther tries to give the credit
for economy in Sheridan county to the
County Commissioners, but here again
he fails,fo in every instance where
the county commissioners have had
supervision of the administration of
the funds, they have a record Of ex-
travagance-note the gift to the hos
pital, the money paid out to the doc
tors, the maintaining of a<county sur
veyor all the year round on the pay
roll and a deputy in the summer
time, and note the juicy contracts let
to favorites for road and bridge ma
terials, and the letting of the printing
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fact contributed to the high expense of
all of the offices which had to use so
much of this high priced printing. Mr..
Gunther tries to show that Mrs.
O'Grady is not entitled to any credit
for the splendid election economy
she wing, and tried to take all of the
credit to the board of county commits
sioners. The county commissioners jiJ
nos have thing to do with the car
rsing on of the election. They rav
the bills only after the Clerk & Re-
corder has contracted chem. Mrs.
O'Grady posted all Of the election no
tees, she delivered all t.f the ballot
boxes and gathered them up again she
surery ised the entire election from one
end to the other, AMI even Mr.. Gunth-
er we'll knows the fact, AMI lie knows
tlat all credit for the economy iii The
| fo e'int Of the electi us beings TO
Mrs. O'Grady and TO no one else and
that fact makes them sore a. Il hornet.
In reporting the expenditures Of
Links office, Mr. Gunther only report
ed the amount charged against Mr.
Link in one fund. He did not report
that in addition to the S2,310.69, which
he shows in his so-called truth, that
Mr.. Link got also, listed in the finn
| cial report under the heading High
ways and Bridges, s1,496.6O for view
ing and inspecting roads and $83920
for inspecting and viewing bridges, be-
sides thousand or two dollars charg-
ed at divers other places, amounting
in actual figures disclosed to over
81, ,638.49, besides that which is hidden
in other charges which will bring Mr.
Links drag out of the county to be-
tween five and six thousand dollars.
| If Mr.. Gunther wants to make an
honest comparison. let him turn to a
comparison of the cost for the run
ming of these same Office for the pre-
vious years: They follow:
Clerk & Recorder: for the year
1920, last year of Mr.. Major, SO, 1877
rs; 192f,,5frst year of Mrs. O'Grady,
| (short Year, s9,A28.02; 1922, S13,958.-
I27. Now refer to the cost of the audi
tors Office for the year of 1918, Jim
Redmond's last year it cost s7,973.28;
1919, first year of Mrs. O'Grady, &c.
75211; 1920, S4,992.20. In 1921, the
office Of Clerk & Recorder and the of
| fee of County Auditor was combined
into one office and the Clerk & Record
er took over the entire work of the
auditors office. We find that the
combined expense of the auditors Of
flee and the Clerk & Recorders office
for the year of 1920, was s24, ,489. .48,
while 6hsSconbined Offices cost in 1922
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