Show state leaders back change in court plan plait while major political parties each seek to elect their own candidates for elective office this november both are agreed on one important part of the ballot support of amendment number 1 which provides for nonpartisan non partisan selection of judges for the district and supreme court benches this was evident in instructions to all party both by roscoe boden state democratic chairman and vernon Roin romney ney state republican chairman all state candidates led by both gubernatorial candidates likewise have placed their approval on the amen amendment ciment and have urged its adoption the amendment appears on the ballot by virtue of a joint resolution passed in the last utah legislature its passage empowers the legislature to create a new system for selecting judges it does not provide nor contemplate that judges be appointed this amendment seeks to remedy system of selecting judges on partisan ballot during general election years years when consideration of fitness of candidates for office is overshadowed by election of national state and county officers a spokesman said in effect it will make possible continuance ti nuance of capable judges in service in our courts it will eliminate possibility of removal of capable judges because of changes in partisan political sentiment governor herbert B maw voiced his approval of the amendment by observing that removal removal of the judiciary from partisan artisan political ballot assures utah utah a continuance of an excellent together with its other provisions harmonizing various provisions of our state constitution this amendment represents a forward step in sound conduct of our district courts and supreme court I 1 1 I feel every utah voter will agree with me J bracken lee i republican candidate for governor sair that our courts should be beyond partisan consideration passage of the amendment will empower our legislature to adopt a suitable means for selection or of judges in which careful and expert attention by those best qualified to assess capability of men for the bench will be brought to bear to assure continuation of a sound judiciary in utah I 1 sincerely sine recommend passage of no I 1 mr romney and mr loden made known their approval of the measure in written instructions to all founty county chairmen closely paralleling the thought of the gubernatorial candidates their 1 joint feeling was that administration of justice was of such far reaching importance that modernization of the utah system of selecting district court arid and supreme court judges was in order |