The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-04

book and question addressed Ito me
| would have explained this whole mat
/ ter, if your reporter had been honest
| enough to desire it.
| l could go into details in each in
I stance cited in your article, but think
/ that the above are sufficient to show
! the general purpose and intent with
which your publication was made.
Dodgins, the Issue.
The slurring manner in which refer
ence is made to various unfortunate IN
dividuals who have required aid ana
succor from the county is an outrage
upon this community and disgrace
upon your paper, as evidence this: ION
August %, by pauper check No. 30l,
Mr. Geddes paid H. Featherstone $500
for clothing and food for sick German.
Lucky Germanr' Do you think such
levity at the expense of some poor un-
fortunates is any credit to The Herald
If you do, take the benefit of IT,
Your attack upon me concerning the
articles purchased by people who are
furnished with pauper orders on var1-
Gus stores is animated by the same de-
sire that you show in the other parts
of your article. and is not honest nor
fair Before my incumbency nothing
was shown on these orders, as they
were filed with the clerk to lndlcate
what had been obtained thereon, and
for the very purpose of guiding me in
the future I established the rule re-
quiring that every article purchased
on the order should be placed upon the
back thereof, and in this manner when
a second application is made | am able
to guide myself by the history Of the
previous order. AS you know and as
the public knows, it is impossible for
me to govern the persons who get these
orders in what they purchase. My
only safeguard is to refuse second
order where the first one has been used
extravagantly, or for purposes not in
tended; and your reporter is enabled by
my desire to have a record of these
matters to govern future acts, to make
a wanton attack upon me; when, if /
had allowed the matter to go as it
had previously done in the years 1893
and 1894 nothing would have appeared
as to the manner in which these or
ders are traded out.
Why Don't Your Records Show 1t.
You devote about two columns to
alleged coal frauds in relation to coal
disbursements by me, but you are very
careful to refrain from any imputation
that the coal was not actually dis
burSed for proper persons and in
proper manner; and L challenge you ITO
cite an instance where any one has re-
ceived a pound of coal from the county
during my administration who was not
entitled to it.
This Hit Him Hard.
Your paper has for several months
past taken occasion to spend a great
deal of its very valuable space in en-
Tightening the taxpayers of this county
upon the manner in which the select
men have charged the county for mile
age, but you have not cared to be hon
est or fair enough to give the reasons
why for the first six months of our
term this extra mileage was incurred.
If you had been fair you would have
said that under the old administration
it had been customary to allow every
road supervisor carte blanche in order
ing the material and supplies for the
roads in their respective districts,
which resulted in enormous eXpendi-
lures that We're unnecessary. To pre-
vent this kind of work, and to familiar
ize ourselves with the requirements
and conditions of the roads in all the
districts, the selectmen took occasion
when repairs were needed in any par
ticular district, to visit that district,
not only for the purpose of examining
also to examine the general conditions
of the roads in order that subsequent
demands could be intelligently acted |
upon. While this increased the mileage !
at the time, it enabled the selectmen |
TO familiarize themselves with every
road and every road district in the |
and from this time on, when |
demands are made for repairs, and sup
plies are furnished the various road |
ha
upon the actual knowledge of the |
and extravaganza and I'M |
necessary repairs and improvements !
can be avoided and thousands of dollars
will eventually be saved, and have al
ready been saved the taxpayers by the |
course that has been pursued in refer
ence to road districts. And in this COM
nection permit me to say that with all
the mileage charged by the selectmen,
you are challenged to produce proof OF |
any charge for mileage that was not
actually Travelled, and, further, that
was not necessary.
The County Infirmary.
Your article becomes more unjust
than ever in its reference to the county
infirmary. You undertake to give the
salary list for month during the in
cumbency of Joel F. Allen which
to $500, and then as a COM
parison you undertake to show that
under the present administration the
expenses are Sis a month, or, in your
own language: In order to be as fair
as absolute impartiality will allow, an
honest average will be made on thirty
lays of March and April, being partly
cold and partly warm weather, so that
no odds are taken either way" Then
you follow with number of bills, in
which are included Salt Lake Equita-
BILE Coop. supplies, $13473; T. C. M. l.,
bill for $324.76, which you say is for
April, and which you dishonesty fail
to say is for clothing for the inmates
for six months, and which also in
cluded clothing for children kept in
the Orphans home, and which bill
shows the items of clothing purchased
and which bill also includes provisions,
etc.; also tools and materials for a
shoemaker, who mends all shoes at
he infirmary, when heretofore they
have been thrown away, thus saving
the county quite an expense in shoes
This bill of the u. G. M. l. also in
.luded cooking utensils
Your pretended statement also con-
-ains an item of S35 pasturage, which
you desire to convey, unjustly, the i'm
preston as an expense for March and
April, but which the voucher shows.
md which your reporter examined and
we'll knew was for pasturage for six
months, up to November 1st of the