Show progressive platform adopted by the delegates to the progressive county convention for carbon county held heh at price utah sopt sept 24 1914 we the representatives of the progressive party of carbon county in convention assembled hereby ad apt pt the following declaration of principles plea 61 first we endorse and renew our allegiance to the state party platform adopted at salt lake city utah on the tho alth day of june 1914 1014 second wo we affirm that the paramount itsuo in carbon county is ghetler one man residing at sal lake city utah shall control the politics cof or whether li ether the people of said county shall rule we ary arv unalterably opposed to one man rule As the result of such rule we respectfully call attention to the hybrid and conventions held in price at a recent date and declare that they were the most iniquitous proceedings ever perpetrated in the state of utah and should not and cannot long exist in a free country vo we claim that by virtue of libis condition one of the political subdivisions of our greit great state has be ben n converted into an oligarchy with on i man inan tho the supreme dictator who by rewarding hi his followers and punishing thos who wilo oppose min has deprived many fres fre lio people ople of their inalienable and constitutional right to vote according to the tile dictates of alid their ir own judgement jud gement and we hereby pledge ourselves in case of the suo cess of the progressive party to overthrow this oligarchy and thereby re invest tho the people of carbon county with choir constitutional right to vote as their conscience dictates to the end that the rights of all the people including corporations be fully protected and we therefore hereby pledge our candidates if elected to admill Lster the laws I 1 equally and equitably to all |