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Show 6 Leadership Perils--over the duties and of Commerce, projects and save of the Chamber that organization large sums of money. Yet, that scheme became a lighhght in his reorganization game, with taxpayers footing bills that formerly were paid through Gus P. Backman. About the only persons in the State who now give the Maw reorganization scheme their unqualified approval are those commissioners and subordinate officials who have a direct per- sonal stake in the plan and want it continued for their own benefit. The Democratic State platform convention of 1942, after deliberation, refused to give the scheme its sanction. Will a Democratic Legislature now accept responsibility before the voters for permitting the scheme to survive? Can the Democratic Party sponsor approval Legislature and of the scheme escape defeat by the in 1944? Of course, 1f the Democratte Party continues to accept the leadership of Herbert B. Maw it cannot evade responsibility for his political and executive acts. Unless there is explicit repudiation by the Democratic State Central Committee and by the Democratic majority in the Legislature, Maw’s reorganization mess will have to be defended before the voters in 1944. Can the Democratic Party afford to meet the issue in 1944? in 1941, shortly after prisals on a certain distillery concern because of that company’s refusal to issue a false statement intended to whitewash Maw’s actions as a booze salesman and attorney. The Governor backed down when a ‘‘blowoff’’ threatened that might air the entire history of Maw’s nection with the whiskey traffic. When the State Auditor’s report was con- published in November, 1942, disclosing the extent of the failure of Maw’s reorganization scheme to live up to gubernatorial forecasts—$2,112,847.00 off the Herbert B. Maw threatened to mark—Governor withhold funds for the operation of the State Auditor’s office. That threat was a direct reprisal for the refusal of Reese M. Reese, State Auditor, and page 3) propriation and allocation responsible executive. of money to an iIr- If a Governor of Utah has the power to force an audit of State accounts to cover the failure of his pet schemes, what protection have the people of Utah against wholesale depredations on the public treasury? Can the Democratic Party successfully defend reprisals, made or attempted by its chosen leader? Is it not political suicide for the party to condone or defend reprisals by the executive? With the foregoing facts well established and susceptible of complete proof, can the Democratic Party afford to delay an utter re- of Herbert pudiation of the leadership There can be no middle ground for Maw? Democratic Party. Either it must defend contemptible acts of its leader, or it must Who doubts that the sake that leader. will—and_ Party publican THE After the COAL Supreme B. the such forRethe should—raise in the campaign of reprisals his maugura- tion, Herbert B. Maw, in collusion with two Booze Commissioners, attempted to visit re- from SEARCHLIGHT his staff to supply His Excellency with a tailor-made audit to fit the boastful promises of the Governor. In making that threat, Herbert B. Maw provided the best reason of all for keeping State auditing under an independent, elective official, responsible and responsive only to the people of Utah. Likewise His Excellency demonstrated again the folly of entrusting the ap- issue REPRISALS Early (Continued THE of 1944? EPISODE Court ousted Wendell Grover from the Industrial Commission, His a new concocted immediately Excellency scheme to keep Mr. Grover on the State payroll, at the same pay—$4000 a year on Groyer’s own admission, The Governor’s inglorious failure to cope with the coal problem with mere words, forced him to find a way out to save face. He had started out to He ended up by take John L. Lewis into camp. singing fifth tenor in Mr. Lewis’ choir—finally recommending the very thing Lewis already had put into operation—-i. e., seven work days a week, of seven hours a day. In Mr. naming —whatever that three objectives Grover ‘‘eoal means—His in mind. coordinator”’ Excellency First, had he had to es- |