Show republicans TO YOUR TEXTS 1 in another column will be found the charges of the democratic central committee against the republican county officials it will be seen that a mountain is made out of a mole hill it must not be forgotten that it required a direct challenge of the standard to force these gentlemen of the democratic central committee to make pub lie their charges eo that proper investigation ti could be made it will be noted that the statement signed by chairman johnson of the democratic committee of itself makes no charge of dishonesty whatever in fact the only made is matter of irregularity the standard admits that hae been irregularity and a technical vio lation of the law but contends that 1 thie was beneficial to weber county and that some of these technicalities and violations of tho law were in order to perform the work properly the whole matter in nut hell is simply this the assessment rolls of weber county buet be prepared within a certain time under the law the state pays one half of all the expenses of ing these assessment rolls and the state law baya that the assistants of the county asae eeor shall not receive more than two thirds of the salary of the county assessor which is something like per day competent men conid not be secured for that sum of money therefore it wae decided to pay per day for eccli work but tho bbate would not pay any part of the money in of per day hence was decided to pay per day end to make the payroll pay roll appear as per day with a supplemental payroll covering the CO cents per day the only this supplemental payroll pay roll wae necessary wae in order to make the taic pay one halt of the salaries and i in order to secure from the state one half of these salaries and in order that 1 weber county would only have to pay half instead of all of the aid cupple j mental a laries the county co of ficiala de 1 aided on the plan of the supplemental payroll pay roll A careful investigation by the bianci i ard editor shows that there is no proof at least none has come to hie attention i that one single dollar been taken from the county or the state that was not jt and for which a full daya work wae not rendered now as to the irregularities itie the t making of the two payroll the one lor a day and the supplemental pay boll covering the CO cent per day is in part approved by the standard no lion eat citizen of weber county will object to covering that part of the salary in order to secure from the 61 one halt of the um but the making ot the eup elemental plem payroll in the names ot others than who did the work ia wrong aad the standard cannot justify that but each was simply nn error of judg ment on the part of the officials and there was no intention ot committing any wrong when this was done eo far s we can learn but the payment to aco M alanson ll anson deputy treasurer of a salary which he drew in his brothers name for which his brother never did work cannot be jue 1 tidied if necessity required a mental payroll to bo mado out it should have been made out ia the name of the man w ho did the work there ia nothing in the law which baya unit a deputy cannot he paid extra compensation for extra work the bame can be bald of john gibson who used other names and drew the warrants himself aai claims to have paid hie in cash in county clerk office for instance Int tance lou holther adli extra work md had it put in his name but in the county tre aurera office the work ia said io have alx lx ert performed by deputy geo 1 31 banson acut the extra work wie put jn the name of boino other party and the central committee that drew his brothers warrants for this extra work when mr iian sone brother did not do any extra work we have inspected alma chambers payroll which he kept day by day and it shows that each night for which mr goo M IIan sona brother wag placed on the payroll a nights work was performed the only thing the democrats can complain of is the irregularity and technical violation ot the law As already stated not a dishonest act has been shown and we do not believe one can bo shown what these officials did was intended for the benefit of weber county namely to make the state pay one half 0 the allary claims and the were so rendered to the state have been approved and have been paid by the state end no question was at any time raised by the state auditor in regard to this matter the state officials undoubtedly know that the work could not be performed for the per day therefore it will be seen that our democratic friends have discovered an irregularity but were not manly enough to expose to public view just exactly what they had discovered instead of that they whispered around that some awful stealing had been going on in the county offices most outrageous charges have been made against the county treasurer county clerk and county commissioners the standard assured the public that if it can be shown that oue single dol 1 lar has been taken from the county treasury in a criminal manner then the editor ot this paper will be the first to I 1 appear before the district attorney and swear out a warrant for the official who has done wrong but we protest against having the character of honest men assailed who perform their duty to the best of their ability and judgment they may not have done what they did according to law but the work had to be done and had they done otherwise the work would not have been performed because competent help could not have been secured for per day jos stanford W G wilson and ly man skeen abas alma D chambers and john gibson are too well known in thu community to be charged by anyone with having ever committed or permitted a wrong act they have technically violated the law but to the best of our knowledge with no dishonest intention the last democratic county administration tra tion of which john seaman was a part paid the assessors help more than per day but the elate refused to pay a cent over one half of two dollars and the county of weber paid all of the help above per day it was this that the present county officials wished to overcome no business man will object to any ot the proceedings of the present county officials with the exception of drawing mone yin the names of others and that appear to have been an error of judgment no one not even a democrat would charge that alma D chambers would permit geo M to draw 1000 in one month over and above bis salary unless he did work for it or that john gibson drew the warrants of others unless it was just and proper therefore republicans let not your republican officials be accused and abused for that which they did for the whole countes coun tys benefit it it can be shown that one single dollar has been dishonestly taken from the treasury or was not honestly earned then the standard will join the democrats in making the charges and having the guilty parties arrested until then the Ite publican ticket ia entitled to the full support of every republican in weber county the standa must confess though that the methods in vogue in the court house permitting dummy names to bo entered on the and the warrants to be drawn by the officials or deputies is such a loose method as to call for a protest and we demand that it be immediately stopped I 1 ft |