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Show s flSMI THE CITIZEN "iminmHHmr,,"1,,HmtHl1l,ll"l,l1 umimmiimuimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiliiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiuiuiiiiiimiiiimiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilL SERVATION PLANE E iMiiiimiimmmimiii Probe of Mayor's Contingent Fund is Demanded. v The Citizen called attention last week to the fact that up to the time his defalcations were discovered Mayor Bock had been given $4,500 as a contingent fund. It is a fund which has been given to the mayors and no accounting has been asked. In the case of Bock there is a special reason for demanding an accounting. How was that money spent? Did he use it to make good a part of the money he stole as auditor? If so, is not the city still short as a result of Bocks defalcations? If the mayors contingent fund was used to pay back a part of the stolen money and the commissioners will not investigate they share responsibility with Bock. But whether it was so used or not the public is entitled to an accounting. It appears that the commissioners will do nothing right on compulsion and the public is beginning to believe that some of the commissioners will not do their plain duty under any circumstances. What kind of a city commission is this that is afraid to probe any wrong? Surely some of the commissioners can not argue that their skirts are clear, that they have not, for example, used the citys materials to build their porches and walks and to ' plant their houses. Surely a commission which had a Bock among its members cannot contend that there is nothing to any charges that are made against the city administration. It behooves the commissioners, if they are not to bear even a heavier burden of ill repute, that they investigate what use the mayor made of his contingent fund. To rob one city fund and pay it back out of another city fund is not making good a shortage. Fierce War Of Tongs In Democratic Ranks The Anti-Kinsociety, the formation of which The Citizen recounted a few weeks ago, is still active in its opposition to the junior senator from Utah. The members held another meeting a few days ago and were rejoiced to see many new faces. It was apparent that the Kill King Tong was preparing to wage unceasing and ruthless war on g the Will King Tong. Echoes of the speeches made at this meeting have been wafted to The Citi zen, which, however, refrains from cording them, because the price of re- as- bestos is higher even than the price of white paper. What they did not call the junior senator and his genial brother w ould fill only a line or two in this issue, and we prefer to let our readers guess the rest. Suffice to say that each and every speaker made it plain that he aws off the Kings for life. And to seal their faith they passed a set of resolutions. These are not at hand, but perhaps they may figure at the Democratic convention. At any rate the propriety of presenting the resolutions at that harmonious assembly was discussed. The resolutions accuse the junior senator of trying to run the Democratic party in Utah as a dictator, although he betrayed the president in Washington. This probably refers, among other things, to Senator Kings support of the Lodge reservations to the sacred covenant. Immediately following a conference with Candidate Cox a few weeks ago Senator King said: You can say from me that Governor Cox, nowr that Senator Harding has joined the Johnson-Boragroup of bitter-ender- s and come out against any League of Nations, will advocate the League of Nations, but with whatever reservations are necessary to safeguard the United States. He is opposed to the League convention without the dotting of an i or the cross- as a scalping party and have remarked that they were after Anti-King- s the senator's scalp, but it appears that really they are a tong and are intent on cutting out his heart. At any rate there is going to be much carnage as a result of the warfare of the Kill King Tong and the Will King Tong. And not a few stink pots are to be thrown, as is the honor- just judge when a real estate deal stands in the way? What to him the dignity and salutary example of enforced law? Insure Your Income with. tbs B. M. A. A. able custom in tong warfare. . h ing of a t, regardless of the state- ments issued after his conference with President Wilson. Which is to say that Cox has no convictions of his own and simply takes a position because it is in opposition to the one adopted by Senator Harding. and desperThe senators ate betrayal of the president, however, is not the sum of his offending in the eyes of the members of the Kill King Tong. They are outraged that he attempted to dictate the nomination of Mayor Francis of Ogden for governor and fled when he saw the war clouds gathering in the political Balkans. Another charge against the junior senator by the Kill King Tong is that he has every friend he deep-dye- d 500 Seott Bldf., Salt Lake City, Utah Democrats of high and low degree have acquired the spirit of autocracy. For example, a Utah sheriff took it upon himself the other day to release a prisoner who had been sentenced to a jail term by a judge. His only excuse was that the prisoner had some pressing business engagements. L. Mayard Nerlan, a real estate agent of Burley, Idaho, drove his car into North Ogden at terrific speed and was arrested after a deputy sheriff had narrowly escaped death. Nerlan was sentenced by City Judge D. R. Roberts to serve five days in jail. Twelve hours after the sentence had begun Sheriff H. C. Peterson, returning from a lodge meeting, retried the case, so to speak, and released the prisoner who pleaded that he had some real estate deals he wished to complete. When cited by the judge to show cause for his amazing action the sheriff hastily recalled Nerlan to jail. Here was a subordinate county official who, although he possessed neither judicial power to try cases nor The Beaute Shope NAN C. DOBB 522-23-- 24 McIntyre Building Was. 9481 The Rippe Auto Bed and Tent Made in Utah the pardoning power, impudently set aside the judgment of the court so that a prisoner might attend to his business affairs. No doubt, Mr. Peterson and Mr. Nerlan are excellent men. Mr. Peterson is probably excellent when he is out of office and Mr. Nerlan when he is out of his auto. Apparently Sheriff Peterson has absorbed the czaristic spirit from the great exemplar of czarism at Washington. What to him the sentence of a From $25.00 to $40.00 Brothers Bippe Z28. e S9 Fiend uur lakb city, vtab 1 i Eb trues J. Cb Ftaaty Oh thmsh 22ff B. State St. lIHIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUHUUIIIIIIIIUIHIIIIIIIIIUIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIUMIIHlmilllMMIIHtHi1Mm.immmHmllllllMUIllie certainly have a testimonial to offer for the health and cure of our little son, Russel, who had leakage of the heart, and I know Chiropractic adjustments I double-crosse- d ever had, or something of that nature. They say the bones of the political dead slain by Senator King lie bleaching In the summer suns and winter snows from Brigham City to Kanab, and from Salduro on the Western Pacific to Cisco on the Ilio Grande. Hitherto we have referred to tlie F. EDGAR HAVENS A Utah Sheriff Who Would Be Czar. , W. H, PYOTT D. C. Ph. C., Chiropractor SUITE 522-- 5 FELT BLDG. 7 Hours, 9-1- 1, 2-4:- 6-- have cured him. Mrs. Frank Harvey, 573 Wall St. |