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Show 177 50 per cent plus bore result cet to the totai the in U't ah of te expand total of funds figures, the the plan of ceding cession of only 'would Not fail to meet the politics in to This did not it significantly raise to According U't ah the as to Dern's approximately was public cost in the lands wit:t tenured at machinery in revenue that time, 38-. hearln12S, p. 38 given the staffing would be or an order to from sale of administration, specialists with , without necessitate the wou Ld realization that, Utah Lands public national forests, then. the but 70 per "This is probably the gravest immediate tion of state administrative was anounted to projects. it. pr2.ctica1 The testified.38 Secondly, cern funds one- lands within the state. allotment, current benefit objection !nc.nage aid in order to get year. or feder2.l federal public of the area federal $969,000 per states," he the number of dollars Utah had matching to that was cost decreased the minerals additional percentaGe equal 'to :gercentage which h2.lf of the st2.te an but of scale such an or crea- properly lease equal of con- patronage agency impossibility.39 • 39Dern 'was vividly aware of the u!:co8pronising de mands of pa+r-onage politics in U't ah The inability of his Re pub Li.can predecessor, Governor Charles R. Ii:abey, to s8.tisfy the "ward heelers" h2.d been a major factor in his See defeat, 2.rtd terefore in Dern's victory, in 1924. St2nford J. Layton, "Governor C?12Iles E. !,:abey and the utah I Election of· 1924" (unpublished master s thesis , University , of Utah, 1969). |