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Show HARRY 5. JOSEPH WITSilli Says He Believes That CoUn. ty Appointees Have Paid for Their Positions. TALKS TO ATTORNEY Insists That He Is Only Working in Interest of Pure Politics. Demands that he at once cont;r v the Judges of the district court and the calling of a grand jury, and that? the event that the district Judges re(-or re(-or fall to comply with the request, t he at once proceed to prosecute upj-section upj-section 40S4, were made on County Allot ney H. L. Mulliner yesterday attend by Harry S. Joseph. In connection appointments recently made by certain ii the new county officials. Section 40S4, revised statutes of Cut 1S07. Mr. Joseph pointed out, reads a follows: "Buying appointment to o;i.t. Every person who gives or offers u-gratulty u-gratulty or reward, In consideration Z he or any other person shall be appoiS to any public office, or shall be pefm "2 to exercise or discharge the dutiei tv? of, is guilty of a misdemeanor " Mr. Joseph informed the countv an ney that he believed he could rrtd ' proof that Albert J. Seare had tend.M a check for tid in consideration th'at'i; be appointed to the position of mara-' license clerk in the office of th n'r. clerk, and that he (Joseph) was ' ready to bring proof that the ofoe if,' sold to another man, John Haivo-s" who made a higher bid than did s.-' Mr. Joseph also declared that he betv evidence could be produced to &how t'other t'-other appointive offices "had bein a-tioned a-tioned off to the highest bidder" mi the present county administration. "For Pure Politics." "In making this demand I am not d Ing it with any political motives b-;t fa the purity of politics in this state" ti clared Mr. Joseph to the countv attorti- The county attorney said that h w; reaay and willing to prosecute any"vior tion of the law if sufficient evidence presented to him on w-hich to ias-j." complaint. He asked Mr. Joseph to resent re-sent any evidence which he had or m i-oe i-oe abie to secure on which to either tsa a complaint or take up the question c i grand Jury with the Judges of the i- met court and the district attorney M-Joseph M-Joseph promised that he would prod his evidence some lime today and lane la-ne would insist that action tie taken i once and that a full Investigation v. made of every appointive ot'Mcer on tf. county side as to whether or not h o-she o-she had paid for the ofBce before b'-j apj ointed. The county attorney said that hod-sired hod-sired to look more carefullv Into t- matter. The section of the Utah sta' " referred to is copied from the CahforTi law, and the countv attorney wiii y, into the question as to whether or '-the '-the supreme court of that slate had rcai-any rcai-any rulings on the question. Commissioners Are Out. Shortly after leaving the office of t? county attorney, Mr. Joseph went to r.i office of ttie county commissioners w!u a view of having them take the matt: up and make an investigation. .Nor- c! tne members of the commission was p:s. em. but Mr. Joseph announced that he would meet with them this morair.? a-i urge that they take immediate actc- Snortly after Mr. Joseph left the .ice of the county attorney, Samuel Resell Re-sell was in the office of trie countv attorney attor-ney on other business. The matter ai briefly discussed and the question arc as to whether or not, even in the eve:: that the money had been paid, if lea action could be taken, at least as far ai the elective officers were concerned. Section Sec-tion 40.vi of the revised statutes of Utah. ISi'7 provides that any public officer wa receives any gratuitv or reward for appointing ap-pointing another to office shall be subject sub-ject to a fine not exceeding S100C-. Mr. Joseph was later informed of thi section of the law and he deiare-J uha: he did not believe that Thomas Homer, county clerk, or any of the otiier onxers. had received any monev for the apro;:::-me-nts that thev had made, but that someone had received the monev and that he had reason to believe that the tmeS. was in excess of that whlcn it was i-lM.ei wns owing by the eamnnign committee. "As r citizen of Utah and In the interest in-terest of clean politics, I want lo have an Investigation," he said. "What wO be the outcome if such a thing is allowed al-lowed to go on? I will tell voti. Tie poor but efficient man or woman -.: stand no show: the iob will be give; to the . men and women who are wife to pay the highest price for It. and the? will have to take their chances on the 'graft' that they mav get from the office of-fice to which thev ure appointed. I " going through with this thing to the finish fin-ish and don't von forget il '" |