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Show THE CITIZEN 4 ECONOMY OF GOVERNOR APPROVED LA FOLLETTE The HOW TO DO IT GANG staged in Ogden last week what was expected to be a solar plexus to the hopes of the friends working for the good of the Republican party of Utah, but instead has shown the trickery of those working to bring dissension in the party. Through the medium of a deposed employee, John M. Mills, former superintendent of the Ogden Industrial School, and the dragging of politics into the Kiwanis Club, an attack on the administration was launched. It might have proved effective, if true, but like much of the stories spread by the small coterie of under cover men who hold forth in some of the offices of Salt Lake County, it has proved a boomerang. Under the circumstances' the following editorial, taken from the Salt Lake Telegram of July 19th, will prove most interesting: Economy in Order. Governor Charles R. Mabey and the state department of finance and purchase were taken to task over in Ogden for exercising strict economy in the matter of appropriations for the state industrial school. John M. Mills, former superintendent of the institution, declared that the state officials through their niggardly policies had made it impossible for the institution to function properly. Just at this season of the year it is difficult to distinguish between what is of political significance and what is not. In election years complaints against officials holding office reach their height. As a result of this tendency made at this season of the year has come to be considered a part of the political campaign. In the light of this conclusion public faith in campaign criticisms is weakening. We hold no political brief for either Governor Mabey or John Glenn, head of the department of finance an dpurchase, and are not concerned with their political futures. In fairness to them, however, we feel constrained to say that the economies forced upon the state industrial school conform in a large measure to a public ' demand. In the last few years the public has complained consistently of high tax rates. Similarly it has denounced waste and extravagance in the conduct of public offices and institutions. The industrial school itself has not escaped this condemnation. An official audit of the books of the institution in 1922 revealed a depolrable condition. Public money was woefully wasted and certain employes of the institution were placed under a serious stigma. The contingent fund showed a discrepancy of $1196.94. Overpayments on salaries and merchandise were uncovered, while the accounts receivable showed amount due from employes who had le. the institution some time before the audit was made. The records of receipts were loosely kept. Book records showed vouchers drawn in favor of outside parties, while the warrants themselves showed that they had been drawn in favor of employes of the institution. One warrant drawn in favor of the Oregon Short Line railroad was indorsed by a clerk of the institution. A check with the railroad company showed that this money had never been received by the railroad company. The conditions revealed, in this audit justified a strict administration of the funds for this institution. So much money had been wasted in graft and extravagance that the economy order was very much in order. For these reasons it would seem that the attack made upon Governor Mabey. and Mr. Glenn by Mr. Mills was unwarranted. When an institution has once been afflicted with the evils revealed in the official audit, it is difficult to restore confidence and a free rein in financial matters. The taxpayers have been and still are clamoring for lower taxes, which demands economical administration of all state departments and institutions. Public assaults based on fidelity to this pledge are not calculated to carry much With the nomination of United States Senator Burton K and running mate to Robert Wheeler of Montana for M. La Follette on. an independent national ticket, the stage is now set for the presidential race. President Calvin Coolidge and Genera Charles Gates Dawes, head the Republican ticket; John W. Davis and Charles W. Bryan head the Democratic ticket. The three tickets and their platforms constitute a political program upon which any or all voters may find their ideals. The third party ticket will appeal to the hitherto unsatisfied voter. La Follette is a Republican and Wheeler is a Democrat. Both men say they have left their parties because those parties fail to represent the weight with the public. The poison sowers of the under cover men at the County Court House are getting desperate. Their many untruths in an endeavor to blacken the record of Governor Mabey arc fooling no one but their paid workers and themselves. , . vice-preside- nt vice-preside- nt, people. Political leaders of the two old time parties are worried as to future results. One thing is certain, however, and that is that the third party will have to secure several million votes in order to damage either one of the old parties. It must be remembered th:: President Harding defeated Cox by more votes than Woodrow Wilson received altogether in 1912. If this Republican vote remains intact, the Republicans have little to fear, but will it? Mr. Davis represents the greatest money interests of the country, which presents a new problem in the Democratic ranks and which no doubt will be a big factor at the polls. There is another angle to be considered. La Follette and Wheeler may carry enough states to give them the deciding vote in in Congress and such domination is sure to bring greater success in another four years. We find very little difference in the platforms of the two old parties. In fact the similarity is so great that it has been greatly commented upon by the press in general. However, it is quite different with the platform upon which La Follette stands. The predominating features of the platform provide for many great reforms in specific language, and would take the government a great deal farther into business than we are today. In a summary of tlie main planks might be listed: Prompt eradication of the child labor amendment and the protection of children in industry. Legal discriminations against women removed. Election of all Federal judges and abolition of injunctions in labor disputes. Legislation to control the meat packing industry. law. Repeal of Public ownership of railroads, with democratic operation, with definite safeguards against bureaucratic control. Public ownership of the nations waterpower and creation of a public superpower system. Permanent conservation of all natural resources. Promotion. of public works in time of depression. A deep waterway from the Great Lakes to the sea. Creation of a government marketing corporation to provide direct route from the farm producer to the city consumer. Use of the power of the Federal Government to crush private, monopoly. Retention of surtaxes on swollen incomes; restoration of the tax on excess profits, on stock dividends, profits undistributed to evade taxes, rapidly progressive taxes on large estates and inheritances and repeal of excessive tariff duties. Reconstruction of the Federal Reserve and Federal Farm Loan systems to provide for direct public control of thenations money and credit, to make it available on fair terms to all, and national and state legislatures to permit and puromote banking. Adequate laws to guarantee to fanners and industrial workers the right to organize and bargain collectively. We denounce the mercenary system of foreign policy under recent administrations in the interests of financial imperialists, oil monopolists and international bankers. We favor an active foreign policy to bring about a revision of the Versailles treaty in accord- Esch-Cummi- ns co-operat- ive |