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Show i? i - Published Every Saturday : BY GOODWIN'8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. I GALLAGHER, Editor. JAMES P. CASEY Buainezs Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: in United States, Canada and Mexico $2.50 per year, the Including postage for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal n, $4.50 per year. : ' i Single copies, 10 eenta. Payment should be msde by Cheek, Money Order or Registered Letter, pay able to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1019, at the Postoffloe at Salt Lake of March 3, 1870. Act under the Utah, City, 3 Ness Bldg. 8alt Lake City, Utah. Phone Wasatch 5400. 311-121- NEW A UDIT0R DISCO VERS 0 VERPA YMENTS Enough has been discovered at the office of the county auditor how that The Citizen was fully justified in demanding an audit n Mr. Iverson was at the head of that department. In the few days that Mr. Scott has been county auditor overconsisted rents have been revealed. Usually the laying the same bill twice. Already Mr. Scott has compelled repayment of hundreds of dollars. When asked by The Citizen to disclose what had been untied, Mr. Scott said that he did not think it would be proper lake a statement until after further investigation. He explained Clock t he had asked the county commissioners for a complete audit le records of his predecessor and that this had been agreed to When the audit would begin he could not state. .He ag patively. loa" e it clear that he had not accepted as correct the accounts as ed over to him, but had especially stipulated that he was ac- ing them only for what they were. ZB il While Mr. Scott was reticent about going into the details of lighldiscoveries The Citizen, from independent sources, is able to i that the accounts are in deplorable condition. Up to date the discrepancies are the double payments, but of themselves these sufficient to demonstrate, at the very least, the wretched system oyed When Mr. Scott made his request for a special audit he is said ave remarked that he would be willing to trade his first years y for what he believed he would be able to recover from over- ; j ;! over-payme- nts : il tlOD,ents- In the early days of the recent campaign The Citizen called ition to rumors that all was not right ,in the county auditors 2. Rumors of a shortage were persistently circulated and The en demanded that the county commissioners make an audit. was before Chief Deputy Keddington was nominated on the ik lllllHO Democratic ticket for auditor. The Citizen applied to Mr. Kedding-to- n for information, but inasmuch as he was then building h:s fences for the nomination he naturally refused to talk. It was well known in Democratic circles that Mr. Iverson desired a renomination, and there were reports that he and Mr. Keddington were engaged in a fued. This Mr. Keddington denied ; later Iverson withdrew from the race, leaving his rival a clear field, and the nomination went to Keddington. The Democrats boldly proclaimed their intention to run on their records, thus emulating the example of a certain Mr. Bock, who is in the penitentiary. From time to time The Citizen called attention to the sinister rumors afloat concerning the auditors office, but throughout the campaign the real condition of the office was kept under cover. The double payments are a sufficient indication of what that condition was. The fact that the new auditor has been able to obtain restitution in a number of cases within a few days of taking office is an indication of what may be expected. In the circumstances it required considerable nerve for anyone connected with the office to accept a nomination, for necessarily such a candidate was running on the record of the office and he could not but be familiar with the exact conditions. it can be stated that in As an example of an one instance the present auditor was able to reduce a payment from nt of $190 to $96. In another instance there was an nearly $60. In still another instance a payment of $300 was made on a voucher and then duplicate payments were made on certain items in the voucher. Whether all of these discrepancies may be ascribed solely to a defective system we will permit the public to judge. Even if nothts demonstrate, if not ing worse should be disclosed the systematic graft, a most amazing laxity of administration. over-payme- nt over-payme- over-paymen- SALT LAKE PILOTS CHARGES MAKE AIR MAIL PROBE IMPERA TIVE i Stanley Boggs, the air mail pilot, in San Francisco irs to have done more injury to his chief than to him. It has Tohn A. Jordan, supervisor of the air mail service of the Pacific ion, on trial in the court of public opinion and is apt to cause Ltb ivestigation which will benefit the service between Salt Lake ! --fthe coast. mill' The fall of 1 . K. R. Unger, chairman of the Salt Lake division of the Air Mail Pilots of America, came vigorously to the defense of Pilot Boggs and cited evidence that Colonel Jordan was unfitted for his Moreover, he shook a mean stick at some of our position. local men who have interested themselves in providing a field for landing and facilities for the air mafil service. We do" not know' |