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Show THE CITIZEN 4 the Democrats arc boasting that he quit to make room for a chairman friendly to Corless. The new chairman has named for. judge one who is said to favor the Corless ring. But whether he is sworn in or not the sheriffs ring is confident that it will control the polling booth and the ballot box next Tuesday. In place of the regularly appointed judge the Corless forces have selected a woman who is one of their workers and they have told her that she will be sworn in instead of Mrs. Dunn. It will be recalled that when the primary was held the sheriffs cohorts crowded into the home of Mrs. Quay, where the voting was in progress, and intimidated her while people from outside the district cast their votes for convention delegates. When she resented the bullying methods one of Corlesss thugs threatened to knock her down. m For days the Corless envoys have been resorting to intimidation to compel her to resign as chairman, but she is clinging to the position until after election so that she may do all she can to prevent wholesale frauds. In spite of her efforts, however, the Corless ring has made arrangements to steal Precinct 113 and will succeed with the aid of the sheriffs office unless the Rcpub-lican- s are watchful and resolute. On the last two days of registration the sheriffs ring maintained a watcher in the home of Mrs. Quay to make a note of all who machine leaders expressed opposition to Corless. The Corless-Boc- k declared that they were entitled by law to a challenger. The Republicans sent no challenger to the registration, although it probably would have been a wise step in view of the flagrant and open frauds at the Democratic primary. WHAT MISGOVERNMENT IN UTAH HAS DONE TO US Misgovernment by the state administration has resulted in a state-wid- e scandal which is destined to elect every candidate on the Republican ticket. The people of Utah, when they cast their ballots next Tuesday, will register their resentment. By their votes they will repudiate an administration which has not only been the most costly in the history of the state but which has promoted the profits of the predatory interests. The state public utilities commission has granted practically every increase in fares and rates demanded of them by the big corporations. In this way it has really added to the already intolerable burden of taxation. Whether you pay taxes in the form of the regular imposts or whether you pay it in the form of high rates for everything that public utilities have to sell you are quite aware that you are being taxed. Sworn to serve all the people of the state the administration has served not only special interests but partisan interests. Partisans have been rewarded for their fealty with the states money. In flagrant violation of a specific provision of the state constitution, the state land board made a contract with the Dixie Power Company whereby the state used the taxpayers money to build a plant for that company. The Dixie Power Company is a private corporation officered and owned by prominent Democrats. They have been permitted to dip their hands into the state treasury and take out nearly $45,000. The money was used tcJ build for them a high-powtransmission line and the state has not obtained one cent of benefit. State Auditor Ririe, who has become an apologist in this campaign for Democratic misdeeds, was true to his oath of office when he protested against the steal. He pointed out that the state was simply advancing money for a private corporation and obligating the state to use power that it might not need. I cannot see any more reason, he said, for this than that we should advance money for the promotion of any other private enterprise and then be paid back in commodities they may produce for the market in future years. The pretense of the state land board was that a highway was to be built along the power line route, but the power line has been built and turned over to the company, whereas the road project has been abandoned. The road commission has boldly favored the Bamberger inter-urba- n railway with shipments of cement that could have been sent by the steam roads at a much lower cost. The cement was routed at an excessive cost so as to grant a special favor to the governors road. On the Orem road there is a tiny village called Orem. It incorporated as town, elected a Democratic town government and then applied to the state for a loan of $110,000. Over the protest of the state auditor the state loaned this tiny village the vast sum of $110,000. That loan cannot be paid back out of the revenues of the town inside of a hundred years. Virtually the money was loaned er Nor can the apologists for the administration escape the odium of the steal by saying that all of the money has not been paid. The state's contract is on record and unless the state shall regard it as a scrap of paper the entire $110,000 must be paid. The bonds of the town of Orem were purchased by and through this contract to the extent of $110,000 and the state paid par although its own bonds were then selling at 87. For its $6,000,000 bond issue for roads the state received only Thus the road bonds were sold at an average dis$5,755,513.70. count of 4 per cent, which makes the effective interest rate nearly 4 y2 per cent. Some of the bonds were sold as low as 90 cents. In other words, the state, under a Democratic administration, bought at par the bonds of an almost mythical town while selling its own bonds far below par. With such wholesale misgovernment there is no cause for surprise that Auditor Ririe, in an official report, estimated that the state deficit would be $800,000 in the period ending March 31, 1921. For every cent disbursed for labor on the state roads of which the administration spendthrifts profess to be so proud $2.43 has without security. been expended for overhead expense. We have outlined briefly some of the more flagrant offenses of the present state administration. They are offenses which the people will not forgive when they go to the polls next Tuesday. We believe that the Democrats themselves, suffering as do all the rest of us from the overpowering burden of taxation, desire a change in administration and in lawmaking. And that is why The Citizen is confident that not a man on the Democratic state ticket will be elected. CREATED NEW LIQUOR TRAFFIC When the Democrats sought an issue which would bring them victory in the state they adopted a prohibition platform and passed a prohibition law. Under cover of that law the state administration went into partnership with illicit liquor interests. It was not until The Citizen exposed the traffic in alcoholic beverages, manufactured under the name of substitute extract s, that the people of the state realized to what extent the Dcmocr itic administration had been a wet administration. During the entire time that the state was supposed to be dry the state administration was in partnership with the makers of fake extracts and the suite was flooded with alcoholic beverages that were sold openly throrid1' out Utah in grocery stores, soft drink parlors, drug stores and oilier places. While bootlegging obtained continuous publicity the gen ral traffic in' alcoholic beverages escaped notice until The Citizen uncovered it and, at the same time, unmasked a hypocritical adi iiii istration. The process by which the state fostered the traffic was sin pie. The attorney general issued permits to the makers of extracts. Armed with these they called upon the state distributor of alcohol nid |