The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-06-12

on which delivery was not made
Now there is the challenged
Bowler has had the county printing
contract for Daniels county for many
years, most of the time since the county
was created. He cannot show such
record We know that he cannot.
The Producers News has a carbon
copy of every claim filed for the 30 or
3 months which it had the contract and
on every claim is pinned the office re-
ceipt for the warrant issued in payment
thereof. 1t also has the orders for all
printing issued by the county purchasing
agent with his signature, and every claim
filed. has the 0. K. upon it of the officer
for for whose office printing was deliver
ed.
The Sheridan County Taxpayers As
ISOLATION got these claims from the Pro-
ducers News and looked them over.
The Producers News never ordered
thing for the county from Sears Roebuck
& Co. All supplies ordered were from
wholesale office supply houses and were
billed at fair rate of profit only to the
paper. Bowler or anyone else cannot
show anything else
Editor Taylor always worked for the
Peoples Publishing Company for sal
airy and did not stand to make a cent
personally by any excess profit made by
the company. Every cent he ever re-
ceived from the company or by reason
of his relationship with the company is
by salary only and every cent he has ev-
er handled is accounted for
Now these are the facts. Bowler's
statement that the Producers News got
ST. so per folio or statutory rates for
commissioners proceedings are false
and Bowler knows it, and he did not
have the Producers News contract before
him or its claims when he wrote his edi-
torial in the Herald or he could never
have written as he did.
And then Bowler says:
zone would think that the action of the
present board was the 1lrSC IN history CnaC
the Sheridan County printing contract had
been let without bids The law In
this respect has not changed-it does not
require calling for bids"
The law does not require the calling
for bids for the printing contract it is
true. But when the farmers were in
power they were called for every time
the contract was let. They were called
for in 1927 when the Herald got the con-
tract and the Herald bid was the lowest.
But it was not called for in 1929 when
the contract was let to Dolin and the
Wave which Burley himself says cost
the county $4,000 for the two year per-
iod or $4,000 more than when the Her
aid had it. And every time when Bow
Ter was interested in Sheridan county
and the contract was not let by bids,
Bowler denounced the board in the most
scathing terms. He did this in 1918
when he was running the Antelope hide
pendent He even called the printers to-
gether to take the matter to court if pos
sible In 1929 when French and Anker
and Iverson let the contract, without
bids, to Dolin, what did Bowler saya
What did the Herald do2 They both
denounced the commissioners for what
they called an act of perfidy." We re-
print part of what Bowler published in
his Daniels County Leader, owned at the
time by Bowler & Polk:
'"THE RAWEST YET"
Sheridan county has witnessed many
fragrant instances of graft and corruption
in public office and the people of that
county had hoped that they were rid for
all time of such practices after the cleo
ton last fall. However, it appears that it
will require the purging forces of another
election or two to clean the slate for
couple Of hold-over officials This week
again demonstrated their unfitness for Of
flee. Commissioners French and Iverson
are the men.
"Iverson was elected by a campaign
against county printing graft He roared
and Numbered about the thousands of dol
lars Joe Dolin had grated by means of
padded printing bills He howled about the
commissioners giving the contract to Dolin
without the usual custom of calling for
bids He was elected.
n