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Show 1 epublican Party Selects I Candidates in Saturday's s Convention; Much Rivalry v , I , j lame crowd ot i- i s.,vUtor and delegates I :.' Republican County i- n"wnvened at the eoun- - X'vue 'n St- GeorK " p.m. Th St. George ".j West delegates had ,'"v te?n elected on Fri- i' Hi-'on. county chairman, ,' .'v mating to order. k.i. as temporary chair-'.V, chair-'.V, ;ook charge of the j ir.d Walter Cannon was -'si temporary secretary. -H-hi opened the meeting ' firing talk In which he ti the past events through . 'V country has gone and J os: some of the problems ' American people will .7overcouie in the future. -..Jenb'.e interest centered ' nomination for sheriff, -.he first nomination jivirain. Four names up for this position. 4: b?ing Bill Prince, the A j. isoiu. third. Hyrum j "sLi the last Grover Shakes-i :. From the start it was j , tilt the race centered ) Mr. Isom of Hurricane Mr. Atkin of St. George. Kant showed Mr. Isoru with twenty-eight votes. Axn wis second with four--: Ed one-half. Mr. -Shakes-: with six and one-' iii Mr. Prince, fourth . ;io votes, i -si Ha:'en received the nom-; nom-; :.i Or county attorney by Mr. Hafen is the j -s: incumbent. nomination for Represents Represen-ts T3s next in order. Francis and Clarence Schmutz the men nominated to be -i open. Mr. Bowler won sainatioa by the vote of "four to nineteen. Ui Gardner was nominated ::e four year term o? County :-:ssioner when he received 7:ght votes to seventeen trjfjter C. Jones. Sit in order was the nomina-' nomina-' 8t a candidate for two year isioner. Val Hafen and i Andrus were the men nom-by nom-by the vote of thirty-seven -raen for Mr. Andrus. Ti Cannon, like Orval Ha-'- received no competition and ; pat in by acclimation as : Republican candidate for -7 clerk. names were put up for They were: Mrs. El-; El-; Land Woodbury and Mrs. ; .'' B- Stauffer. Final count ' !-l Mn. Woodbury receiving "mination by the vote of ; ;"?ven and o n e - h a 1 f to ' and one-half for Mrs. , Gardner with thirty- ; - and one-half won the nom-ontisued nom-ontisued on page tour) REPUBLICANS (Continued from page ? .z) ination for Assesor from Jos. Ray who received fifteen and one-half votes. County Treasurer was next on the order of business. Mrs. Madge Cannon and Winnifred Gubler were nominated as candidates can-didates for the nomination. This proved to be the closest race of the convention. Mrs. Cannon came out first with twenty-four while Mr. Gubler received twenty and one-half. W. W. Cannon received the nomination for candidate for Surveyor by acclimation. Orval Hafen was again appointed ap-pointed as County Chairman and given authority to choose his men to work with him. The County Committee was also given authority to fill any vacancies that might occur in any offices. The first Republican rally is to take place on Saturday, October Octo-ber the 13 th. Don B. Colton, Arthur Woolley and local speakers speak-ers will speak at Hurricane at 6:30 p.m. and then at St. George at 8:00 p.m. Following is the platform adopted by the delegates at the above convention: 1. We believe in the principles enunciated bv the Republican Na tional Platform and the Republican Repub-lican State Platform, and pledge ourselves to uphold the constitution consti-tution of the United States, and for a representative government. 2. "Wie are opposed to the present tendency to place upon the payroll of Government, large numbers of officers, and are opposed op-posed to the beauracratic tendencies ten-dencies of the present highly centralized cen-tralized system of government. 3. We pledge our County officers, of-ficers, if elected, to devote the necessary time required by law to their offices, and to keep them open during those hours, and to devote their entire time to County Coun-ty business during the time they should be in their offices. 4. We pledge our party and our local representatives to work for immediate completion of the State Highway between St. George and Hurricane, and to also work for a better and more direct route between St. George and Enterprise. 5. We pledge our representatives, representa-tives, if elected, to vote to free our local, personal and real property prop-erty from taxation ifor state purposes, pur-poses, and to advocate that taxes tax-es for state purposes be levied on higher income, or by sales tax, or other equitable tax other than local, personal and real property. prop-erty. 6. We stand for the repeal of the Musser law, and for the freeing of the roads for the use and enjoyment of the citizens of Utah, and pledge our representatives represen-tatives to work for such legislation. legisla-tion. 7. We stand for an adequate and just system in cooperation with the individuals and the state and Federal government for old age pensions and unemployment unemploy-ment insurance. 8. We pledge our candidates to work for the maintenance and support of the Dixie College as a State institution, and also for adequate financial support for the entire educational system of Washington County. 9. We stand for the 'future development of Washington County, Coun-ty, agriculturaly, industrially and educationally, and pledge ourselves our-selves as a party to work for any project which tends to bring about this end, and we are particularly par-ticularly anxious and pledge ourselves our-selves as a party to the support of the commonly called Dixie Development De-velopment project. |