Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1900 — The Reformer Should Make a Bid. [ARTICLE]

The Reformer Should Make a Bid.

j December 18th is the day the ; commissioners are to let the con--1 tract for next year’s stationery, blanks, record books etc. The indications are that the large stationary firms have divided up the state as heretofore, and each in their own districts will name the prices that, suit them. There is one class of the supplies however, which country printers can furnish, anci we suggest to our over-modest friend, The Reform* r, that he put in a bid on that class. The lowest bid, if in legal form and with a proper bond, will get the job. Last year the Reformer did not make a bid. preferring to refrain from bidding so that he might rail at those who and got the contract. Of course the Reformer may not know how to figure on any kind of job work any better than he did on county ballots, and upon them he says he did not know how to make a price, even after the work was done, until he called on Harry Strohm for advice He can’t get any job that’s let to the lowest bidder by using Strohm’s methods of charging, but he might first make his figures on the same scale as he charged for the ballots, and then cut them down about two thirds. He might then stand a chanoe of being the lowest bidder. Come Bab, be a man. Put up a bid on the stationery or shut up your bazzoo about those who do.