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Show That Socialist Benfer nnd his News-Advocate come high and nre, an expensive political luxury Is illustrated in the fact that tho county commissioners commis-sioners spent .for "books and stationery" during tho fiscal year ending June 30, 1915, the unprecedented unpre-cedented sum of $2594.92. This is $845.13 in excess ex-cess of the previous yearly period nnd nlmost double thnt of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1913, when the nmount was $1301.35, and nt which time the county government went from a republican administration of affnlrs to "bull moose." Party organs nnd hired edltorn of n political machine come high, ns Is discovered by taxpayers when their attention Is directed to the ; rottenncsB thnt pervades tho court house ringi now in control of the affairs of Carbon county. ' More thnn twenty-five hundred dollars for "books and stationer' for a county such ns Carbon Car-bon In ono yenr is amazing. Carbon county could not conservatively consume or use this vnluo in t'o nrtMes mentioned during the time. Thero Is llttlo better than thievery going on somewhere. Socialist Benfer drew down the grentcr portion of tho $2594.92 spent for the fiscal year 1915. His charges are from 30 to 40 per cent more on newspaper publications thnn tho snme service is obtainable elsewhere, nnd It ia presumed ho Is taking tho snme extortionate profits from work other thnn that of publications. |
