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Show J. Bracken Lee In Race For Governorship PROMINENT PRICE BUSINESS LEADER PLANS STATE WIDE CAMPAIGN TOUR, Plans for visiting Smithfield during a statewide campaign tour on behalf of his candidacy for the Republican nomination for governor gover-nor have been announced by Mayor May-or J. Bracken Lee of Price, whose' decision to enter the gubernatorial gubernator-ial contest featured this week's developments on the Utah political polit-ical front. While in Smithfield, Mayor Lee, long an outspoken critic of the present state administration, will address a meeting arranged by local supporters and at that time will make refinements on a four point program in which he pledges pled-ges himself to: "(1) Stamp out political racketeering; (2) Reduce I taxes by directing funds into' proper channels; (3) Build Utah with action and not words; and (4) Overthrow the oligarchy! which, beyond question, now rules this state." "I will not , "said Mayor Lee, "make my platform topheavy with the kind of planks which unprincipled un-principled politicians adopt tor no other reason than to attract votes. I have made my first platform plat-form statement as brief and compact com-pact as possible because I don't think an announcement of candidacy can-didacy is the proper place to urge the issues involved. "That should be done in th9 field of actual campaigning, where the citizens have an opportunity oppor-tunity to meet the candidate and engage him on the questions he discusses. "Suffice it to ay now that my decision to seek the governorship of Utah is motivated by aft imperative im-perative desire to see a revival in this commonwealth of a concept con-cept of government by and for the people. Utah is now being victimized by a band of political plunderers as shameless and ruth less a any who ever sat in councils coun-cils of Tamanny Hall. They are sacking our state, enfeebling lis enterprise and erecting vast structures of monopoly to aggrandize agg-randize themselves at the expense of the public. It is time we turned turn-ed out these bandits who perform no more than lip service to the ideal of honest, representative government, these raiders who commit license in the name of liberalism. "When I visit Smithfield, I will call these plunderers by name, present a bill of particulars concerning con-cerning their operations and back up my words with irrefutable evidence. "My words are not to be construed con-strued in any way as an indictment indict-ment of the scores of honest state employees who ' are doing their jobs well. But it is neccess-ary neccess-ary to point out that their efforts are being nullified largely by the evils of machine politics in the upper brackets of state government." govern-ment." Mayor Lee served two terms as president of the Municipal League Leag-ue of Utah, in 1938 and 1939, and is now president of Southeastern South-eastern Utah Associated Industries, Indust-ries, a non profit association dedicated de-dicated to the promotion of the state's industries and tb,e development devel-opment of markets for Utah's products. His civic affilations include in-clude the Price Chamber of Commerce Com-merce and the Prce Post No. 3 of the American Legion. Mayor Lee was Carbon County's first volunteer in the World War', spending two years in the service of the war department and maintaining main-taining a commission in the Officers' Off-icers' Reserve Corps until 1935, when he resigned. In private life he is a successful success-ful insurance broker and realtor. Mr. Lee was born in Price 41 , years ago, a decendent of pioneer grandparents, who arrived in Utah with the first handcart com-:panies. com-:panies. Married, he is the father of two daughters and one son. rrw . |