Show GRAfT CRAFT AGAIN IN PRINTING i 7 fOR COUNTY f Commissioners Award the theS I S WorK Worl to Smoot Mouth l-fouth at High Price In of or tho law the county commissioners again this morning awarded the printing of the delinquent tax list to the tho Herald TJ This s tIme lime however the hyphenated sheet must be bo satisfied with 25 cents a name namo And wd description which is less than half tho the amount given the Intermountain Republican Re Ec- Ec publican last year for the handing over overS S of ot which the county commissioners and their bondsmen are now answering in court The hUh hid Of r f the tho Smoot or organ an was 2 21 25 cents Jt name and description anil was dated Non November 0 CL Iso o o circulation was mentioned in tho the hid but bul panelled nn on the mar margin in were the tho words fords By By telephone circulation It appears therefore that the 01 organ an claims tins this this n extravagant lut circulation is more than the tho old oId Herald and Republican combined was s tho only other I bidder hidler and aud offered to do ito the tho S.- S. work for or 20 O cents a name nama and S. S lion Hon Its bid was Wit tinted dated November S Sand und and gave e a its circulation as us asked at the Iho correct corred figures of duB daily in in the S county S The commissioners have ha been trying S S for br mouths months to find so somo mo wa way to iYo ho this contract to tho hyphenated h c. c This was tho the th third advertisement advertisement adver adver- and in in or order er to 10 get et tho contract contract con con- tract t the he or organ J n. n had to como come down very cry considerably in it its fj figures Its first bid was S 25 5 cents an au inch which is is nearly GS CiS c cents nh a description and the theother theother theother other hid bid of THE TilE TELEGRAM tAM was wasi 7 cents an inch I Tho lio commissioners bad tiac 5 S they complied with t the e law Ian could h have haveS we S done dono nothing else than award ward tho the contract contract con con- tract then to TIlE THE TELEGRAM LEGnAI which they were by bv no means willing illin to do lo rhe They had bad given eu the tho contract illegally ast year oar at 25 cents au m inch and md said iha they wanted bids by name and und S lion this the again nain advertised j year so 5 S 'S They They- C are arc now trying to justify in in tl the tEe c courts the giving iu oC or the thc contract last t year at tit the inch rale rate I When the first hi bids were cro opened four months a ago u the tho Deseret News was a u. hi bid bid- tier ler n nt at a about out tho the rate of 35 5 3 cents a anuno name ind de description H r The comi commissioners iss not like liko to lo say siy ir thou theu that tho the or organ 1 of the tho Mormons ro only ha had a quarter of c i the circulation of the thu Smoot or organ an an and it was wa as read vert is od that time Last year no bids bid were asked but hut acting on n tho advice adice of or the United States attorney Cot Col HymN F E. E Booth 5 president of or the company which pubS published pub pub- S i tho the Smoot or organ an tho tire coin mission mission- j vi-s vi 1 handed banded ocr over o the tho work without contract contract con con- tract and aud it co cost t. t the tho county or OS GS rents flats a a. name and aud description ll Two TO years before when hen bids had bad been legally e ally risked asked tho the Ha- Ha publican did the tIle work for Sor Jl cents a i description or nr a a i total amount of S much lees than a of last at years year's care raid mill on tho the treasury ForIS For 01 l IS that little piece picco p cco of graft Col Cot 13 E. Booth is in now bein being paid to defend 1 the tho he commissioners in a t suit EDit instituted ly In the hc county attorney Job P. P Lyon Jyon and t d his int fee iee is s ln ing paid by bv byS bytho S tho the county to defend a graft by br which thich Lo iio 10 was tho tim beneficiary Commissioner John rohn C. C Mackoy Mackey who S engineered the graft mft said ai after tho Iho meeting today that tho tito circulation S tion claimed by the tho Republican Herald had been given i en the tho commissioners over the telephone Ho lIo slid did not believe o the vapor paper had an any such circulation tion hu but t thought the combined circulation o oj nf the herald and R Republican was sufficiently greater than that of THE TilE TELEGRAM to lo justify ju the tho thein giving in of 01 tho thu printing to the at 5 cents a deS dc- dc S I more more |