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

hood and SANDER, was published to brace
up and strengthen the poltroon who is
ashamed now to look his own neighbors
in the face: neighbors who now point
the finger of scorn and contempt at him
when he passes-his own neighbors who
refer to him as of something shiny.
1t was published to keep him from craw-
fishing on the dirty deal until the contract
is signed sealed and ratified and all
chance for reconsideration has passed
and for no other purpose. That is why
Bowler wrote the article which is bald
lie, by liar whom we have many times
before said, will lie even when the truth
would serve him better"
The article is a repetition of the lies
Polk and Bowler told Com. Anker and
his wife and repeated over and over to
them, until they persuaded them to go
back on the solemn promises that they
had made to their neighbors, and which
Anker had made to Com. Carl Hansen,
when he made that trip to the Hansen
farm to see Carl that he would let the
contract by bids to the lowest bidder.
Now they feel that Anker must be kept
persuaded or they yet may lose the con-
tract-they fear he is too weak to stand
in the face of the scorn of his neiehbors
Polk and Bowler, the outsiders, did not
want the Sheridan county printing con-
tract to be let at bids-they did not want
to compete! Why2 Because they know
that if the contract went to bids they
would not get it, and that the swag they
were working for would escape them.
What interest do these men have in
the contract except what they can make
out of it2 They are not interested in
this county. Or maybe there is another
reason. Maybe they paid Frank French
the thousand dollars that Bowler told
Carl Hansen and also Victor Anker
we guess. that French had offered it to
him for, and so felt they could not pay
that sum if the contract were awarded on
the basis of bids, for with bids their con-
tract must be low
Now let us answer Bowler's lies one
by one. Bowler says:
"The contract was awarded to Jos. F.
Doln in 1916. 1t let again in 1920
without calling for bids.
Gin 1926 the board gave the contract to
the Producers News without calling for
bids or giving any other newspaper a
chance 30 compete. More, the News got
the contract at FULL CODE PRICE. But
the full code price was not enough for Tay
lor, who charged the county almost double
frla 0da Torioa for furr
iShed."
Now for the facts:
The contract was let to Dolin in 1916
on call for bids In spite April 1911 it
was let to Dolin at full code prices priv
ately and without bids for two years. In
1920 bids were called for and filed, and
Dolin got the contract for one year tho
his bid was not the lowest In 1921 bids
were called for again and Dolin again got
the contract for two years on trick bid,
and was compelled to deliver. In the fall
of 1923 Dolin suspended the Pioneer
Press and assigned the contract to the
Producers News for consideration. In
the spring of 1924 the contract was let
by bids to the Sheridan County Farmer
for one year In the fall of 1924 right
after election it was transferred to the
Producers News which paper completed
the contract.
In the spring of I925 bids were adver-
tised for in the Producers News, the of
fetal paper, and bids were filed: the Pro
ducers News and the Plentywood Herald
bidding. The Producers News was award
ed the contract in 1925 as the lowest and
best bidder, for period of two years, or
until July 1927. The called for bids
were dated May s, 1925 and the date
the bids were opened was May g. Now
the contract rate for printing commits
sioners' proceedings was 80 1870 off
statutory rates or S per folio; legal adj
vertising $50 off or $l.l21z per folio
for the first insertion and SO cents pei
folio for subsequent Insertions; rule and
figure work Is per cent off statutory
rates or ST. so per folio (the statutory
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