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Show IT HAS?" A VERY BAD LOOK. If no better defenea can be made for Superintendent Jones of tho county infirmary, in-firmary, than was pecnented In the church organ, then all that has been charged; of mismanagement, Imposition on tho county, and Illegal and wasteful waste-ful expenditures of public money must stand confessed. Indeed, the most of the allegations rest on the solid basis of the ofllclal ( vouchers, and cannot In the slightest degree be questioned. What Is this defenso? It Is merely the old story of tho man who replied to those who testified that they saw him steal a piece of goods, that he could bring a hundred men who would swear that they didn't see him steal It. Similarly, Sim-ilarly, Clerk Sablno Is made to select certain parts of tho accounts and oven up tho figures, whereas the whole account ac-count is what must be taken. It Is not the firms that didn't get tho trade that must bo taken Into the account, but tho firms thut did get IL The records show that the Mormon houses got fully seventy sev-enty per cent of all the county's trade, and that the chief Gentile houses were boycotted altogether. Also, when the Clerk shows that the so-called Republican administration was no worse than the preceding Democratic Dem-ocratic administration, we may accept the statement as made, without going Into the question at all. But it Is a case of "A plaguo on both your houses!" for under tho church dominance of both parties there was not the weight of a hair to choose between them. Both were equally the tools of the grasping and all-controlling church political propaganda. propa-ganda. It is idle to attempt (o throw dust In the eyes of tho peoplo by such chljdlsh pleas as thaL Wc have constantly been urging the very point that it makes no difference In this election whether the Republican or the Democratic candidates candi-dates for the Commlsslonershlps were elected; that the church politicians uuiu iuiu mings as inoy cnose in elthor case, and all for the glory of the tithing ofllce and the relief of the church from supporting its poor, as It makes loud pretense of doing. We have maintained right along that this Is so In the nature of the case; that -it is necessarily so. And now, Clerk Sabine verifies the claim, and the News prints that verification aa a defonso from Tribune attacks! The truth Is, that there is no escape from the showings Tho Tribune has made on the mismanagement of the affairs af-fairs of tho county. That mismanagement mismanage-ment has consisted In reckless extravagance, extrava-gance, violations of the law in respect to(the Itemizing of tho vouchers, Illegal payments to employees whereby they get pay for five days more In a month than there aro days in tho month, perjury per-jury In the rendering of such accounts, favoritism to Mormon trade against Gentile, and in a fraudulent claim that a feast was given to the inmates of the Infirmary when v iiuujidiij- a icasL at public cost to tho Superintendent's family and to the editor of tho church organ with a part of his family. That this sort of mismanagement and waste, this fraudulent and lawless manner man-ner of conductlng-The public business, must stop, there can be no question. But we have shown that It cannot be stopped by the election of either the Democratic or the Republican nominees for the Commlssfonershlps. This is now corroborated by Clerk Sabine of the infirmary in-firmary and vouched or by tho church organ. The only remedy, and this Is also the obvious one, Is- to elect the American nominees, Meajrs. McMillan and Bour-gard, Bour-gard, who have no allegiance which will provent them from fully protecting the public and giving it a thoroughly good business administration, and who are also conspicuously competent and able to do so. |