Show f r THE CAPITOL SCANDAL thing flung which is IS of of gravest grayest concern to the thi h THE people of Utah in the called so-called Welling dollars dollars dollars dol- dol thousand of ten case case is not that upward lars was wa drained out of the he state treasury by petty peculation over a p period of six months month Attitude toward a public trust is is of far more importance in which a Here Herc is a instance m In a high state official has viewed the responsibilities t that lat of his office lightly suggesting he le ie has made a sinecure out of the post to which citizens either citizens either his fellow he was chosen by has hns manifested gross incompetence incompetence this or that he De tence to o the position others whose number or Then there are arc identities cannot yet ret b be known who have hav filched the tile money of the state which afforded afforded afford afford- ed cd them the prote protection tion of its laws Jaws and institutions institutions institutions and the livelihoods of themselves and Their contemptible those dependent upon then ble sneaking dishonesty is the more reprehensible reprehensible he sibl because they broke faith with their benefactors who r reposed os d special trust in in them hem Secretary Secretary of State Milton H. H Welling Velling many t tines times honored with public office trust and responsibility by his neighbors bors and fellow citizens onetime member of the congress from front Utah at another time an avowed aspirant to the governorship by his own admissions admissions admissions ad ad- missions in testimony under oath places himself himself him him- self on trial before the thc bar of public opinion for derelictions in office Audit and 8 office for forthe the thc first six months of 1933 disclose that he f failed a as the ie responsible head of that office to exercise the diligent devotion to duty that would insure agai against st the mishandling or misappropriation of public funds How in the light of the tile nepotism anti-nepotism law does oes it come about that John Joh Welling Velling his son vc should have access to state money It is not clear whether he was an of the secretary sec see of states state's s 's office directly or by subterfuge fuge ruge or indeed an at all Yet his father explains that he the duly elected eec eec- of state detached remittances from applications applications applications ap ap- ap- ap made to I his hia office in order that his hison hison hisson son on should not bc be tempted 1 Son or no son should anyone at any time ever have been permitted within the office in whom implicit trust might not be reposed T The auditors declare that no proper record was kept of money so detached by Secretary Well Well- ing They cite many instances where the thc sec sec- of state failed utterly to have proper proper record made of many y money transactions of his office They offer gratuitously an excuse or explanation that the system in operation in the office was inherited from a previous administration As Asif if there can be any mitigation mitigation mitigation miti miti- gation in that 1 If upon pon his llis entry into office Secretary jW Welling eiling discovered that the records of the of of- fice ice w were re not in keeping l with constitutional I and nd statutory requirements it was his 81 plain duty t to follow th the letter of the law v as he as- as lcd office and correct the deficiencies I Upon these these aId and other counts does Secretary iW Welling elling face the necessity of justifying himself before the people No civil or criminal charge has las been laid against him He lIe has been proved guil of nothing No charge or imp implication implication im im- im- im p has been uttered that he has profited profited prof prof- 1 by one cent from the delinquencies committed committed com corn in his office It is by his Ills own own wn testimony that h t he be exposes himself to public concern TC- TC regarding e garding his stewardship of the second office the gift of the tho people As s it stands isis his te testimony is incomplete and requires much uch by way of addition to remove the hurt which Pe ie has done himself The slow v processes of government are now jn moving ving- ving with evident design to ferret out the guilty and to make whole the publics public's loss pit Citizens ens can do n no more than await patiently the he out outcome ome hoping that the responsible officers officers of of- of the state government will vill be con- con only with their lawful and constitutional constitution constitution- al duties and obligations by any inclination inclination in in- to protect the tho guilty or burden the innocent Audit of the thc whole of the Welling administration ha has been ordered by the state board of examiners The he disclosures pi of the special are cl eloquent with the reasons why this should have peen been initiated months ago go as The Tele-gr Tele Telegram m insisted should be done |