Show CJ COUNTY DEMOCRATS TW ADOPT PL PLATFORM AT MANT ANTI Document T Takes akes Present County Administration Over the Rocky Road Because of- of its its- Action in Increasing the Salaries of County Offices Officers During A Y Year ea of Financial Stress The tion on bearing on the the State and n Ji national political l i al I sitt- sitt in general generalise i ty political poll poll- situation b in particular was waa unanimously unanimously unanimously una una- adopted at a harmonious Democratic t county convention con at Manti ManU Thursday We tho the representatives of the tho Dern party of or Sanpete Coi nt ln in Convention assembled heartily en endorse en en- gorse dorse cone the incomparable platform adopted at tho the recent National Democratic Demo Deme cratic Convention at Denver We Ve approve of tho the spirit in which vJ ch it proclaims proclaims proclaims pro pro- claims the tho great principals of a gover- gover ment of a n. free people and believe it to tobe be tho the grandest enunciation of democratic doctrine se sod forth in any political platform since the formation of our Republic The Democratic slogan in this campaign campaign campaign cam cam- is Shall the people n rule e or shall we surrender our political rights as a free people and be bo dictated to bytho by bythe the tho of tho the political machine J I which has haa for its purpose purpose the tho domination domination domin- domin of the people and tho the setting I aside of independent thought and i action in order that a n. few favored ones may reap the tho rewards of office holding I IThe IThe The Democratic party has always good and fought for the of all the people It has lias ever ev ever r opposed the usurpation of the individual and God-given God rights of man an and has always al af- always I ways insisted that strict economy economy and honesty should be practiced b by those chosen to administer the tho affairs of ot I government We respectfully remind the tho people of the fact that the dep deplorable orab e a conditions conditions condi condi- conditions d denounced by the present Executive Executive Executive Ex Ex- of the Nation i in fit numerous state papers under which we find ourselves nationally at nt the presen present time are due t. t to the vicious and in inequitable iu- iu equitable legislation of the Republican party which has hag been responsible n ible for the conduct of affairs for nearly fifty years last past and we unhesitatingly point pint out a path of relief from those these I existing evils by ging all aU to to follow tho the len leadership of o that great Commoner Common Common- er that friend of humanity tho peo pao- p peoples peoples' o- o ples' ples choice W William lliam J Ja Bry n n. n We tho the Democratic party A tA Convention Convention Convention Con Con- assembled with call call a attention att at at- t of tho the people of this thid e county Y to the splendid administration given give n I ita its affairs while Democratic ofIl were entrusted with tho the performance of the duties incident to the tho respective tine tive offices and i if again commissioned commission commission- ed b by tho the people as ns their servants wo we o I pledge that the tho officers shall honestly and zealously labor to rc reduce luce the expenses ex ex- pe to too im m consistent consistent with I WV Wo a p th IKo late n-I n ance cn enacted c ed by the Republican county commissi commissioners ra fers-ra Ing the tho salary of every county official who had any hope or expectation of succeeding succeeding succeeding suc suc- himself in office believing as we do that the taxpayers are already overburdened and knowing k that e every ery county office holder is receiving greater remuneration than his bis service j will swill command in any other line of employment In this connection we would not have the people forget that when the tho Democratic p party was in control of the offices of this county ever mindful of the peoples peoples' welfare the County Board of Commissioners reduced the schedule of salaries and we now pledge e the nominees of this convention for Commissioners if ele ted tad to office to repeal the ordinance raising the tho salaries of County officers and to enact a new ordinance redl cing the tho salaries to the old schedule Vo V 0 condom the hypocrisy of the the Republican party of this county in attempt to cover the extravagant expenditures made by trying to make the people boll believe eve that thai the reason the i county funds are so low and as hn an excuse for the almost impassible county roads remaining and unimproved from year j ear to year is that many years yeara ago the county paid an enormous sum to the grasshopper bounty fund when in truth and in fact that was but a an insignificant amount in in comparison with the vas vast t appropriations made in paying salaries salaries sala ries of county officials fo for r labor which in the tho main could an and d should have been done by the pals Our party has always been the friend and supporter of good mora morals 13 and the tho advocate ate of high ideals both bothin bothin in individual individual and in government therefore we ve declare ourselves in favor of such laws and nd regulations as shall effectually prohibit the traffic in an and we wo wel r e eby b pledge l our nominees to the legislature it it support legislation favor fug such ouch prohibition W complain We of the apparent lack of appreciation by O Congress of the tho valiant services rendered and anil sacrifices ces made mado by Utah's Indian War Veterans whose whoso grit and determination tion tiou mado aside it pos possible for for the white Continued on pa pipe pago o eight I e i Continued f roYn page pago one t. t 1 ni man anto n. n to Inhabit this splendid State J s and andt wo therefore favor faver aver such legislation as will bring to them a 4 su substantial toward reward and recognition J f well or duty well performed and andr r f ue w feel that in inasmuch as much a ne as but few of them remain with ith us and that this thisEl El small email remnant is Ii now tottering on the tho s' s y the grave gravo it fa s high timo r am should be lone done for them r and md to this end we wo pledge the tho hearty Vs F ri and d earnest support port of Our our legislative w nominees Wo Vo pledge our legislative nominees if lc work for the enactment of f a law granting State hid aid to high ls t r mho P JO o Democratic nominees are aro year Four-year commissioner N Nl N. P. P of cf Centerfield year two-year commissioner Joseph Hanson Hansen of ofrain rain Fairview low f county clerk Ervin Gee Geo o of f b Moroni recorder Lauritz Larsen of oft I t M n l Pleasant treasurer Joseph Judd 1 of Manti ass P. P a ot of Ephraim county attorney Geoa Geo i J- J a Christensen of Ephraim superintendent I t i dent of schools James W. W Anderson Y f Spring Sprin City sheriff George W. W Lowry of Manti Surveyor R. R M. M I. I Greaves of ot Ephraim representative representatives John J S. S Blain of Spring City and andt t Amasa Aldrich 0 of bit Pleasant Joseph Judd of was elected x f county chairman and authorized to st select his The Tho committeemen committee committee- i en men at large are M. M F. F Murray urray of I I Ephraim L. L P. P Nielsen Nielson of Mt Pleasant Pleas Pleas- LJ 1 ant and Mannus Marinus of Gun Gun- Gunnison I nison These together with tho chair- chair f the precinct committees will con county committee |