Show PAST S1 REDEMPTION How jealous the Tribune an and the tho Herald must be of their joint reputation ion tion tot for untruthfulness Driven by The Republican from one position after aCter another another- In reference to the matter of ot refunding count county bonds the they collaborate ate In the search for tor a n. anew anew new a allegation legatIon Starting Starting- with the statement that th the ho commissioners had lost host tho the county seventeen seventeen seventeen sev sev- enteen thousand dollars by letting tho the contract to a bidder other than tho lowest and charging those officials with wHim criminality the Tribune and Herald have havo been compelled to lo abandon abandon abandon aban aban- don tho the accusation in grudging grudging- reco recognition recognition rec rec- o of the fact that tho the public had not been either cither robbed b by tho the thoc c commissioners S or d deceived b by the theD D i l m mhO hO declare d clare ley hav another bid wh which ch was as hotter boiler than the tho theone theone one accepted It was what the lawyers lawyers law law- ers would woul call new evidence and they timey want want ant a new trial even after the they have been beeri convicted of ot misstatements They Thep say gay tho the bid of the McDonald McDonald- l McCoy company compan of oC Chicago was lower than that of Rollins which the tho commissioners commissioners com corn missioners accepted that it offered to take lake the bonds at four Cour and a fourth per pel cent an and that the bonus anti and In Inducements In- In offered were as good g as those of or Rollins They Ea say further that the commissioners did not even know of the McDonald McCoy bid The truth Is Is the commissioners dl did know of that bl bid It was before tho the board with all the other othel bids It was before tho the public as were all ail the theother theother theother other records In the thc officer of County Clerk Eldredge an and the thc commissioners It was read with all the Iho rest considered considered considered consid consid- ered with all the rest lest is for fOI four and antI anda antIa a fourth per cent hut but does docs not offer U m. m good Inducements ah IRS did liti the limo Rollins people either cither In tho formal bid itself or In tho tIme later propositions O of ot the agents of or that In conference with the time commissioners It Is folly Colly to attempt scaring the tho public with these up cooked scandals It is silly in this case cuc for all al the tIme bids bids' were presented to the thc commissioners com Coin missioners and were seen een h by scores of or citizens ns They were not hidden and they were yore not overlooked Somo days ago o The Republican told alt time the 10 Democratic papers papel's to know what they incy were C talking al about out when hien they made malic new charges The They lb do flo know leno what the they arc are talking about an amid S so d do gS s th the public They are nr talking talking- to hear themselves talk And they the kno W h ho one nc will believe them |