Show JOHN SEAMAN AN II 11 THE bax LIST the of john seaman in giving out abe printing of the delinquent tax liet thie fall should bring tho the face ot that there probably ia no man in tie city who would stoop to abe dirty and mean methods pursued by john treaman tf eaman we herewith give abe transaction ot the publication of the tax list and the pub lie can fudeo judeo for itself how honorable bono rable jolin seaman ie on the evening ot november STANDARD received a notice inviting it to bid for the publication li of the delinquent tax liet the notice stated that the bide would close on november at 5 ibis gave THE STANDARD one day to bid and knowing that no paper in ogden could make a bid on one days notice for less than 25 cent per name STANDARD bid that amount when the bide closed only one bid was found that of STANDARD now comes the peculiar eelbode of john seaman while the bide closed to THE in one day the xray X ray the populist weekly published in oden was riven a whole week in which to bid not only that but the xray X ray man sent word that he could not get the list out h cause he could not borrow enough ape and ingber than lettick STANDARD bare the tux liet john seaman informed the xray X ray man that he should have the tax list notwithstanding 1 that be would rive it to him in the meantime THE STANDARD editor called upon john seaman and informed him that if be would rive THE STANDARD a weeks time the came as bo waa riving the other papers we would publish the list at the same price that we charged dan hamer two years ago or beven cents no john seaman eaid STANDARD had one day to bid and that was all THE STANDARD could have we then asked him why he gave the other paper a weeks time and THE only one day and he coolly replied that that waa hia business under those circum atances STANDARD wai refused an equal richt to bid for the tax liet this may beem honorable aad juet in the eyes of john seaman but to THE STANDARDS way of thinking it 1 most contemptible way ot doing business As a matter of act THE STANDARD did net expect to publish the tax list tor john seaman bad repeatedly said that his time would come to get even with STANDARD when john seaman attempted 0 o tax the merchants of ont of existence and THE STANDARD opposed that outrageous proposition our action deemed to have offended john seaman very much john seaman eaid he bad to adopt that method in order to save the county some expenses but john seaman never thinks of tho county expense when be presents his bill for expenses the law says the county commissioners salary shall be 50 per month yet john seaman with the regularity of the full moon bands in bis bill each month for 75 seaman was very anxious to show by a epenial expert that the commissioners of last year draw a double calary but be coee not object to john seaman taking his regular monthly expense account of 25 in addition to bis salary STANDARDS attention was called to the matter beveral weeks and STANDARD editor stated that it was unfair and a robbery for the county to regularly draw 25 a month just tor expenses that was brought to seamans ear and we are informed that he said he would fix STANDARD on the tas list and be did |