Show State Leaders Back Change In Court Plan While Utah's major political parties parties par- par ties tics each seek to elect their own candidates for elective office this November both are agreed on one ono important part of ot the ballot support support sup sup- port of ot Amendment number 1 which provides es for rr partisan non-partisan selection selection se selection se- se lection of ot judges for the district and nd supreme court benches This was vas evident nt in instructions to lo all party workers both by Rescue lI Doden Roden den State Democratic chairman and Vernon Romney state s Republican lican chairman All state s candidates candidates candi candi- dates led by both gubernatorial candidates likewise have have placed their approval on the amendment and have urged its Ita adoption The amendment appears un the ballot by virtue of ot a joint resolution tion passed in the last Utah I legis legis- g s- s lature Its passage empowers the legislature to create a new system for selecting judges It docs does not provide nor contemplate that judges b be appointed This amendment seeks to remedy remedy remedy rem rem- edy Utah's system of selecting Judges on partisan ballot during election years years ears years when whenn n an d ration of fitness of candidates candidates candi canJI- dates cUtes for tor office is overshadowed by I election lection of national state and county county coun coun- ty officers officer eu a spokesman said paid In 1 It will make possible con con- e of capable judges in ser ser- vl in to our OUT courts It will v ll eliminate pt possibility of removal of capable judges because of changes in partisan partisan partisan par par- political sentiment Governor Herbert B. B Maw hi his approval of the amendment by observing that Removal of the judiciary from partisan political ballot assures Utah a continuance of ot an excellent judiciary Together with its other provisions harmonizing various provisions provisions provisions pro pro- visions of our state constitution this amendment represents a forward forward forward for for- ward step in sound conduct of ot our district courts and supreme cont 1 I feel every Utah vot voter r will agree with me me J. J Bracken Lee Republican candidate for governor sair that our courts should us hs be beyond beyond be- be yond partisan consideration Passage Passage Passage Pas Pas- sage of the amendment will empower empower em- em power our legislature to adopt a suitable means' means for selection of ot of judges in which careful and expert attention by those best qualified to assess capability of ot men for th the bench wi will be brought to bear To assure continuation of a sound ju judiciary judiciary judiciary ju- ju in Utah I sincerely recommend recommend mend passa passage e of Amendment No 1 Air Mr Romney and Mr Doden Boden made mad known their approval of the measure measure measure meas meas- ure in tn written instructions to all l county chairmen Closely paralleling parallel parallel- paralleling ing the thought of ot the gubernatorial rial candidates their joint feeling felling was that administration of justice was of such far reaching import ence ance that modernization of the Utah system of f selecting district court cout and supreme court judges was 3 in order |