Show L PLATFORM OF SEVIER DEMOCRATS the democratic party of sevier county in convention assembled hereby issue to the voters of this county the following declaration of principles and policies which it pledges to carry into effect when hen its candidates are elected in november we endorse the platform adopted by the state convention of the demo cianic parts part it its recent state convention as well as the nominees ashby snow for united states senator ephraim burgeson and william R wallace jr for congress and george christensen for the supreme court of the state of utah we heartily endorse the record of senator william H king in the Con giess gless of the united states and the administration of george H dern dem as governor of utah and point to what they liane have done and what chat they stand for as indicative of what people may expect from all of their public officers when the entire administration shall be we condemn the efforts of the bunch of republican legislators and politicians to hamstring the administration of governor Go vernoi dem and particularly ticul arly in passing over his veto the law which prohibits the placing of any name on more than one ticket we hold that this law obstructs the freedom of any man at the ballot to express his wishes at the polls we pledge our nominee to the legislature to work for the repeal of this law we further pledge our nominee to the state legislature to work against any further centralization of authority in the statte capitol at salt lake we condemn the vast ast authority that has been placed in the hands of he state engineer over our water rights right and the distribution thereof that has been placed in the board of equalization on the questions affecting the taxation of our property and in the state road commis commission ion in giving jurisdiction over our roads and in taking it avay akay from ourselves we favor a law lav for the le classification of property for taxation purpose po and also an income tax law for the state in the interest of more equally distributing the burden of taxation upon all instead of letting it rest as it now does largely upon lands even though such lands produce no net income whatsoever we hold that the agn agricultural cultural industry is the basic industry of our county and v we e favor such lan laws s and such adjustments under the law whereby hereby the burden of taxation upon lands shall be substantially relieved leli eved we stand for the enforcement of all the laws without fear of the rich or the favor of the influential and we pledge our candidates for sheriff and county attorney to carry out in a fair and determined spirit this position we condemn the method of ring rule such as exists in the republican party of sevier county whereby a small clique of politicians arrogate to them themselves elnes the right to dictate the policies of the republican party and to name the candidates for county offices office we remind you vou in conclusion to take youl tax notices to the polls there is no use to suggest that you take your mortgage gage with you because it cannot be lifted |