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Show feating and thwarting the desires of the voting people. It was the .saving fore of this same statute which enabled the good people of Salt Lake County to nominate and elect Sheriff Ben J. Harries in spite of the fact that the little clique at the convention refused to nominate him. I have been requested to allow al-low my name to go before the people peo-ple under the provisions of this statute stat-ute so as to enable them to express their choice of persons who should act as presiding judge of this district. dis-trict. The certificate was only circulated cir-culated in one or two towns in the district but had it been circulated throughout the entire district 1 schould have received over a thousand thous-and names with no more effort than it took to secure the 155 who did sign it. It is done by the voting people and I am only a servant of the people. It may be claimed that I am not a good party man when I follow this plan; but I simply answer this thot with the fact that I know of no party par-ty rule which binds me to bow beneath be-neath the yoke of special interests against the wishes and desires of the whole people. I believe in government gov-ernment of the people, by the people peo-ple and for the people, and this can be accomplished only by allowing the people to rule instead of a special spec-ial group who have no regard for the wishes of the people. If the voters desire to have an opportunity op-portunity to cast their vote for me there is a method provided by law whereby this may be done. I have provided them with tsis method at the request of a large portion of voters. vo-ters. Tils promises to be a peoples' year and during this campaign and at this coming election the people will express, their wishes if indica-t.iona indica-t.iona mean anything. Who has any valid right to object to a plan whereby where-by the people may have the man of their choice placed upon the official ballott so that they may vote for him? In my Qpinloon no one has any such right, I have been in the praotlce of law tor over fourteen years. About one halt of that time I have acted as proocecutor for the date. I invite in-vite attention to my record and am willing to stand upon it. I submit that when other officer: have become moral cowards, and were afraid to take the stand whieh would insure an administration of justice I have always taken a stand for the right and fought for tt ever, against the criticism of those who had not the interests ot the people at heart, I have always been a staunch Republican Re-publican because I believed in its principles. I thought them to be best for the whole people or I should not have stood and fought for them. Those principles are aq dear to mc today a-a they ever were- but when delegates elected to serve and carry out the wishes of the people flatly refuse to carry out those wishes and principles at that moment they cease to be loyal members of the party they pretend to represent and no A-merlcan A-merlcan citizen is bound by their actions ac-tions and conduct. I and the people peo-ple of this district are not hound by the results of the judicial convention conven-tion because the result of that convention con-vention does not reflect the expressed express-ed 'will of the people which was expressed ex-pressed at their respective primaries. primar-ies. In becoming a candidate for the judgship I am conforming strictly strict-ly to the wishes of the people who signed my certificate of nomination. They were 155 in numher. The people who nominated my opponent T. H. Burton were only 78 In number, num-ber, less than one halt of the number num-ber who singed my certificate of nomination. Therefore I am backed back-ed by doubly as large a group of the tizens of the state as is Mr. Burton. 'Jnder the same statute as I am now iroing before the people under, the people of Salt Lake County nomlna-'ed nomlna-'ed and elected Sheriff Ben J, Harries. Har-ries. His official record has proven prov-en to he a complete vindication of 'his system of nomination and election elec-tion of people to office who are the choice of the people. I submit that there can be nothing wrong nor illegal il-legal nor irregular about becoming i candidate under such a law but on the contrary it has proved to be very satisfactory. I do not think any person will object unless it be some would-be politician who has private Interests to subserve instead of the wishes and welfare of the people of the state. Respectfully submitted, Wm. B. Higgins AN OPEN LETTER POLITICAL ADVERTISING Mr. Editor. Dear Sir: I desire permission to explain thru the medium of your paper why I have become a candidate for the office of-fice of District Judge upon an independent in-dependent ticket thia fall. I claim that unfair and un-American methods were adopted in se curing the appointment and also the nomination of T. H. Burton for the office of District Judge. When W, F, Knox resigned he should have made his resignation public and an open book so that the vacancy created by his resignation oould have been filled according to the choice of the people expressed by their written petition. This was not done. He resigned in secret and had Judge Burton appointed in secret so far as the general public was concerned. He knew he intended in-tended to practice law in Burton's court after securing his appointment appoint-ment to that office. . Second: Notwithstanding the fact that four yeans ago the delegates dele-gates at the Judicial Convention for the FifhtJ Judicial District passed a resolution to hold the next district convention within the Fifth Judicial District, W. F. Knox prepared a call for the distiict convention to be held this fall at Salt Lake City and took it to the secretary of the Judicial Central Committee and had him sign it. This was an act in utter desre-gard desre-gard and in violation of the expressed express-ed will of the people of the district. Third: When the oenvention was called and the the balloting progressed pro-gressed I was the first candidate for the office of District Judge to receive re-ceive the necessary majority to entitle en-title me to be declared nominated; and this in spite of the fact thai some delegates from Washington County who were pledged to vote for me violated their pledge and voted against me to please other delegates del-egates who were dfeatd at thei prcinct piimariefi and secured theii places upon the delegation at : county convention through the kind ness and courtesy of people from other oth-er towns than their own. Fourth: Some of the delegate? from Iron County who were under solemn instructions from their County Cou-nty Convention to vote for mo violated vio-lated their Instructions and voted against me This was a positive violation vio-lation of their trust and a dsregard of the wish and will of the people who elected them. I claim thnt I was the choice of the people of my party in the district, dis-trict, and was rightfully entitled to have been declared the nominee: that I was cheated out of the nomination nom-ination by a few delegates who held their own personal interests above the Interests or the wishes or will the primaries, of the voting people as expressed at I am a candidate because the people peo-ple nominated mo arcording to the provNinns of Sertlnn 21S3 of the Compiled Laws ot I'tr.h. LSI 7. which provides that if 100 people sign a certificate of nomination of a candidate candi-date in due form ho shall have his name placed upon the official ballot, bal-lot, and have him name placed before be-fore the people whether a small clique or faction attempts to keep him off or not. Such a law was enacted en-acted in the wisdom of the legislators legisla-tors of the state so r.s to prevent a small group of politcians from de- |