Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1911 — ISH’T THIS A BALD RUBBERY? [ARTICLE]

ISH’T THIS A BALD RUBBERY?

Republican Charges High School $235 fur $l5O Job DEMOCRAT’S BID WAS $125 Exclusive of Paper Stock, Which Is Worth $25 to S3O, But Misrepresentation and Dirty Politics Landed the Job at SBS More Than It Was Worth. The Rensselaer high school is issuing a manual, and 250 copies were to be gotten out of 125 pages. The Democrat was asked to bid on this work, exclusive of cuts and paper; the cuts to be furnished by the school and tljc. wholesale cost of the paper added, as they had not decided upon the kind of paper they would use. The paper, we in formed the committee would cost from $25 to S3O, and our price for doing the work in a first-class manner would be $1 per page, or $125 for the 250 books. Through misrepresentation and evidently a little dirty politics on the part of a certain member of the high school faculty, the Rensselaer Republican was awarded the contract at $235, including the paper stock, or SBS more than an equally good or better jt>b would have cost from The Democrat office. In other words, the high school • s J u ffgled out of SBS on this job.