Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1932-08-18
Highway Commission Calls for Gravel Bids


For years and years the people of Sheridan county
have been endeavoring to abolish graft and g~rafters
from our county government. In some measure they
succeeded; but all too frequently the people find
thai when they have eliminated one form of graft
another shows its ugly head.
Several years ago the county spent thousands
oil dollars IN court costs preventing Joe Dohn OF Me
dicine Lake from stealing all the funds in the treas
ury, the court house. the farmers seed grain and
practically everything else the county owned
In one court action alone Joc's padded and
FRI udulent claims were cut from more than 81 1000
to less than ST 200. Another claim was cut from
fl.755 to just ten per cent OF the sum, $177.50.
Other court actions and watchful officials prevented
him from stealing several other thousands of dol
lars. all by the padded claim method.
And then what happcned1
Charley Taylor and the Producers News got the
printing contract and they padded their claims 80
y larcenist, while Joe believed he was a high-class
glafter on a big scale-which he was.
Eventually the people got wise.
About thirteen months ago the Pentywood Her
aid was awarded the Sheridan printing contract. Do
lin and the Producers News howled that the CON
tract price was too high. Well, let see what happen
ed.
for the past year for just s., 739. 70 LESS than the
average yearly cost when the Prod1cers News had
tie contract, and $3,949.96 LESS than the average
yearly cost when Joe Do1n and his Medicine Lake
Wave had the contract.
: The prices in the Herald contract. we admit. were
approximately as high a. the prices in either the
Producers News or Joe Doln's contract
The difference1 That's simplel
The Pl~entywood Herald lived up to the terms of
It's contract. 1t never has and never will pad q claim
or try to defraud the county.
The Producers News and Joe Dolin never did live
u, to their contracts and never will. They padded
every claim they thought they could get by and
hey thought they could get by with murder. Their
success in defrauding the county was greater than
anyone could imagine
How Do They Do 1t?
There is just one answer to the payment of pad
DID and fraudulent claims. GRAFT and grating or
incompetent commissioners
No one would ever accuse MIR. Frank French of
being incompetent.
Mr.. French and, ah, Mr.. Hansen
Mr.. French ran for reelection. The Plentywood
Herald Just couidnt see fit to support Mr.. French.
The majority Of voters couldn't see fit to support MIR.
French either. He was thoroly trounced. defeated,
s~quelched- His power was about to end
So Mr.. French, working in conjunction with a
thieving. disgruntled individual who had been dis
Charged from the services of the Herald where he
lid been kept on the payroll because Of sympathy
To- his family during this spasm we call a depression
sought to cancel the county contract with the Her
aid.
The thieving individual stole two Invoices from
the Herald hles-invoices which showed that the
Herald had, in an attempt to give quick service on
rush orders. got some printing done at the Williston
Herald.
Without other cause, and entirely ignoring the OPP
inions OF the County Attorney and Attorney Gener-
al of the state, MIR. French and MIR. Hansen illegally
cancelled the contract with the Herald and then di-
yided it between the claim-padding Joe Dolin and
tht grating Charley Taylor's Producers News.
That, dear Readers, is the way Mr.. French and
M Carl Hansen believe political debts should be
paid-wIh your money.
Commissioner Anker stcadfastly opposed such IL
legal action, but he was outnumbcrcd and outvoted
by Joe Dolins friend and Charley Taylor's friend.
Turn to Last Page Please)
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