Show socialist convention tho the socialist party of uintah county utah met in mass convention at the opera house in vernal oct 1906 at 10 a m with L N meredith temporary chairman and C 11 II gray temporary secretary af after ter organizing and appointing of various cammi committees a recess was held field until p rn at which time the convention was called to order by the chairman and after making the temporary organization permanent according acco iding to the recommendation men dation of the committee on organization I 1 the convention proceeded to place in nomination a county ticket as follows representative to the state legislature pardon dodds better known as cap dodds county commissioner four year term george gcorge langston farmer county comity commissioner two year term conrad frank farmer on green river county bleik thomas weir teacher in fourth waid school sheriff george wilbon farmer county recorder ellen county attorney L N meredith maredith county assessor E B daniels farmer treasurer eu eugene ene A daniels I 1 he following resolutions were adopted first we tho the socialists of uintah county utah in conNen connection tion assembled reaffirm our allegiance to the principles apt forth in the national platform and resolved that we are first thoroughly convinced beyond a question of doubt after a careful review of tho the rad administration ministration of the alfans of this government by the democratic and republican parties during the past hundred 3 ears up to and including the present time has and are being run in the interest of a class of people and not for the berie benefit fit of the whole people second that corporation interest runs riot over the rights of the people as a whole the corporations being bold bod enough to say that they tax the traffic with all it will bear and by so doing reaffirm the statement of one of their members vanderbilt who said the people be damned Third we Wo rea flinn tho the resolutions adopted by the state socialists conn convention en as reported in the crisis relative to the id idaho tho trouble and the declaration of principles fourthie Fourt hWe we condemn the action of judge palmer of colorado in le let fusing using to persons who nho announce that they are socialists because it is and unconstitutional and as aa being an arbitrary act on tl ti e part of a judicial officer to residents of the united states fifth we believe the right of fian chise should be accorded to all residents of the U S without reference to race color religion oi 01 politics sixth we believe in and reaffirm the principles laid down that church and state shall be fo forever en er sepal ate seventh we demand the election of U S senators by a direct vote of the people eighth we demand economic management in all pubic affairs whether confined to the nation state county or city Ninth We favor a postal saving bank conducted by the government also a parcel post system tenth we condemn the action of W S dalton editor of the crisis a v beekly news paper published at salt lake city for withdrawing from the socialists ticket as a candidate for judge of the supreme court and accepting a nomination from the american party now attempting to run a mixed paper for the american and socialist parties be it further resolved that it is the sense of this convention that he be refrain from further publishing of socialist literature in his fits paper the crisis Eleventh We heartily endorse the nomination of G A gray for state senator and pledge ourselves to resort coall to all honorable means to secure his election after appointing a to fill vacancies and electing a county central committee the convention adjourned sine die |