The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-23
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That the county would be losing
any money by giving the contract
to somebody else at the same fig
ure that you are getting is not so,
as you say it is. But l will ad-
init, that the printing could prob
ably be done cheaper by some
body else, as the secretary of the
Taxpayers Association on several
occasion has made the statement
you are charging all the traffic
can possibly bear, and very likely
if your claims are looked over a
little closer it will be found you
are charging more than the traffic
can bear.
Why didn't listen to county
attorney Blackwell, and why didn't
wait for the attorney generals
opinion before l did this illegal
act of cancelling your contract.
Mr.. Polk, l am not so sure yet
that we have done anything illegal
What l am sure of is, that you
have repeatedly been breaking oul
law and if your contract should
not be cancelled for that reason
there is something radically wrong
with our laws.
For weeks we waited for the at
torney generals opinion and it die
not come. What our county attor
ney had sent to the attorney gen
eral was an opinion of his owl
which he wanted the attorney gen
eral to o. K, but Blackwell in nj
opinion had not stated the actua
facts. From my experience wit
Mr.. Blackwell, his opinions an
judgments are not very imp1essiv
to me, especially when it comes t
passing his opinions in a cas-
where the Producers News an
Chas. E. Taylor are involved. Nj
Blackwell was the one WAC drag
ged Chas. E. Taylor into coul
some two years ago on a bun
check charge, something he ha
never done to anybody else, al
; tho there have been plenty {
charges, just to hand Charlie
some dirt. That case cost the coul
ty nice little sum of money, ar
Chas. E. Taylor was freed on tt
first ballot by the jury. That
only one of Bakewell's many bu
: records.
= Sheridan county has been gar
ridden and gang-robbed long EN-
The taxpayers been mulct'
of at least a million dollars" "
: say, and you are right. But it
q the very people that you are Ii
ing up with and sticking up f
!, that did the robbing.
n When the farmers, that l a.
a.. representing and sticking up fl
. were in power, the county debt W
reduced and all county funds we
!. brought back on cash basis. T
gang who did the "gang-riddin
and "gang robbing" is your ga
and not the farmers repl
sentatives. So when you S
q that SHERIDAN county has h
enough of gangsterism," l flu
s. agree with you,, and 1 helped
a. cancel the printing contract /
the purpose of getting rid of @
a of them.
= Chas. Grant, whom you {
- praising so highly for his mob
- deed of signing the complaint,
y "is" to be commended for his
\ terest in the county welfar
= What kind of a taxpayer is he
a. Of all the taxpayers in the couI
that you claim you have so fai
fully served l take it for gran
re that he was the only one you CO.
get to sign that complaint, or J
he would have chosen some real t
l. payer, but you had to make a r
taxpayer out of him so he CO.
legally qualify by paying a sm
amount of his taxes out of v,
E. own pocket. Chas. Grants 19
taxes amounted to S379.76 and
that amount $49.26 was paid j
. before the trial.
When you mention taxpayers
he like to ask you Mr.. Polk, WI
If kind of a taxpayer are you, +.
are driving your car between h
al and Williston, smuggling in uni;
Mt fully printed goods and the cou
is paying you for the trips. J
10 live in Williston and you are CO
ing in here for the sole purp
of sucking the county's teat.
IN You claim that you have min
!: per cent of the taxpayers beh
IL you. And I claim that ninety
It. cent of the farmers and work
ct people in this county have not ?
u! their taxes, because they were
lit able to, and that is the peopl
"a am sticking up for, that is
y people / want TO do something
ell if l can, and that is the peopl
RI expect will back me up in a fl
re against law breakers like you.
10 You say Sheridan county
o had enough of Communism" pl
Ii ably you and your gang have
Il enough of it, but the ninety
10. cent who are not able to pay Il
i taxes need some more of it
III that is just what they are gC
to get, no matter if you and y
gang like it or not. From the
is.
ns operative basis and its eff
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