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Show Republican Abuse of Public Trust If Salt Lake County and all other Utah voters need more proof of Republican disregard of the voters' wishes they got it last week when the Salt Lake County. Commission organized. The commission is composed of two Republicans one of whom barely won reelection by a few hundred votes -and one Democrat who won by a huge majority. All other county offices went to Democrats, reflecting a strong desire on the part of voters to have Democrats in key county positions. So what d,id the Republican dominated County Commission do? , The new Democratic Commission, W. G. (Bill) Larson, a former state senator and a man of wide experience, was given a number of minor jobs while all the important and patronage-packed patronage-packed assignments went to the two Republicans. Rarely has so crude a political move taken place before the public eye. Voters might ask themselves if the two Republican commissioners com-missioners feel they alone are intelligent enough to run the big jobs. They might ask if the two Republicans feel the overwhelm- . ing Democratic vote in the November elections meant that Salt Lake County voters wanted the Republican commissioners to (Continued on Page Four) i a Republican Abuse of Public Trust (Continued from Page 1) keep running the county. And they hight start asking themselves what they can do to correct the situation. Are we going to stand calmly by and watch the people's mandate ignored? It's time that the residents of Salt Lake County stand up and roar a mighty protest at this latest and most flagrant exhibition of abuse of public trust. |