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Show o SEARCHLIGHT THE powers of appropriation of public money—a Legislature. of the function constitutional Neither was there advance information that His Excellency would use such powers to attempt to browbeat the University of Utah into self-mutilation, or that he would use his control of the State’s purse strings to threaten an elective official with reprisals because that official declined to manipulate an audit of State tion that he had no further need of’them (unInstead, he established a mourntil 1944). ers’ bench on which the true believers of 1940 could spend their time wearing callouses on their already shiny pants until it should f1nally dawn on them that they had been betrayed. system run-around insulting his Today brings caustic remarks from Democrats and those from alike, particularly Republicans who are compelled to transact business the chief executive of the State. Even his top-ranking commissioners are accounts. He pledged the sportsmen of Utah that he would advise with them in the mngement of But after a few the Fish & Game department. with virtu- tunity. Governor becomes The especially able when some victim of administration seeks an interview to plead for redress. His fine ment into a ward heelers’ paradise. promises to sportsmen made during the campaign, were thrown into the ash can. unavail- reorganization— Government—via State of the would save large sums for Utah taxpayers—a mil- lion dollars a year was 1942, is safe from such contemptible Democrat the leadership denies who of a man or supporters avoids interviews to Democratic who have just grievances; or party leaders who their opinions should feel—justly so—that have consideration in the formulation of Executive policy? Should the Democratic Party tolerate injustices and slights to its leaders and members and see them denied redress? Manifestly, the party tant winning organization its members leader with as a mill- cannot long endure against all if it fails to protect comers, a ven for wanton including a neglect. REORGANIZATION In no utterance or message in his campaign for election in 1940 did Herbert B. Maw present his reorganization scheme for analysis or He sprung it as consideration by the voters. another of those hopeful adolescent surprises after his election. There was no inkling then that he proposed to concentrate in himself the authority of statutory and constitutional departments of the State Government. Nor was there any intimation in 1940 that Candidate Maw, under the guise of emergency provisions, would seek—and actually in May, his promise made But the State Auditor’s report showed the extra cost of the Maw type of Government totaled $1,112,847.00 more than the cost of orderly constitu- affronts? Obviously only those who leave him completely alone are immune. Is the Democratic Party willing to continue under administration that his ‘‘streamlined’’ Legislature the and people the promised Maw B. Herbert treachery What Utah Democrat hasn’t smarted under the stinging insult of relegation to His what And bench? Excellenecy’s mourners’ Utah depart- the turned he vacillation of mouths ally barred from THE PRESENCE. Party officers and leaders from every part of the State are given a petty, contemptible, run-around at every oppor- obhftain— tional government period. corresponding report was painstaking H. Henry under State And the and accurate. great credit on the Auditor and his due allowance for defense costs, sions, and other items, which, if have made a comparison with the tration unfair. a for Blood Auditor’s It reflects It made staff. legislative sesincluded would Blood adminis- His Excellency’s promise of a million dollars a year to be saved by his touted reorganization, turned out to be $2,112,847.00** wide of the mark—a typical fulfillment of a Maw administration promise. Governor Maw failed to inform the voters in 1940 that, of Chamber if the Democratic would create department Commerce Continued “At he elected, on page State a take to 6 Convention at Og- den in May, 1942, Governor Herbert B. Maw assured the delegates that savings to the State arising from operation of his vaunted reorganization would reach a million dollars a year. That unsaved plus the $1,112,847.00 in extra cost of remillion organization government totals $2.112.847.00. |