Show Casually Observing I Political Mass Meetings 1 Are April 27 NEXT IS A MOST important day for the f lay citizen of Utah who is concerned about i and national It's the day when the I two major parties Democrats and Republicans will be holding district Mass Meetings to select delegates to the county in some select new officers to head the party organization in that I IN DUCHESNE the meetings are set up in each of the eight voting districts by the leadership of the two At a joint meeting of the two state political the date of April 27 was agreed and county chairmen have been advised to follow through to see that these meetings were held on this The The Church First Presidency has endorsed the idea and urged ward and stake leaders not to schedule ties on this THE 1963 LEGISLATURE revised the election laws to I a and the Monday meetings will test the potency I F of Utah's revised election laws to stimulate rank and file i P voter interest in the candidate selecting Those at- I I tending the Monday Mass Meetings will not have a chance 1 1 to vote on announced candidates for but they will help select delegates to a later county in some voting for candidates will be 4 TWO MAJOR CHANGES were designated to at tract a larger cross-section of the to the mass 1 One was scheduling of the meetings W instead of before the close of the filing The other H was providing for party convention nominations by a vote of 80 per cent or more of the delegates for a single 3 BOTH PARTIES HAVE contests for some and when they meet in their county the delegates j will have this chance to vote for the candidates who have I If one of two candidates does not get 80 per cent the delegate he then enters a Primary Election in where the entire county Where more than I two candidates have filed for it becomes the mm NEW PRESIDENT Jack FItzwater was elected president of the Duchesne Chamber of Commerce of the party convention to eliminate all but This will be done by the two receiving most delegate votes being designated to face each other in the August Don't if four have filed for one and one of 4 the four receives 80 per cent of the he is the If he fails to get the required then the two highest sj i candidates are chosen by the convention to meet in J IN THE PAST YEARS district mass meetings were f held months before the candidate list was known for f which naturally had a tendency to reduce interest I I in such THE ATTENDANCE pattern of the f L past has ranged from half dozen voters in many dis-l up to 25 or 80 in This simply meant that I I small handful of people were deciding who should be m the designated candidates for public office and who would H head the respective i IN THE REVISED election law should sub- increase because the candidates are known and their partisans can give them a lift by electing convention we hope this will be 3 the result of the new IN ANOTHER STORY ON Page 1 of the Standard there appear the names of the newly designed voting dis- as established by the County Commissioners fend where the Mass for both parties will be It is suggested that these be checked carefully for time and then all who are eligible to vote attend the meet- in the area where the meeting is being y WHEN I STATED IN THE opening paragraph of A these comments that next Monday was a very important il I y in the lives of Utah I meant exactly what f i I For a long time I have observed the kind of on a local that people have manifested T in and hasten to say It has been very i Ing My purpose In making these comments this week and giving prominence to this article and the story of I I where the Mass Meetings are to le held Is with a sincere iV j hope people of Duchesne as well as other i will show sufficient interest that they will go to M I the Mass Meeting of their choice and take part in its ITI 5 I FOR THE PAST SEVERAL WEEKS some of the can-ilE congressional office have been touring the rte to toot their own horns and get an organization set K their own cause- This is because gives Pe citizenry a chance to meet these men and hear their It should also have a tendency help stimulate in politics in our great H USUALLY I END MY with THE LAST and this is it for this fi I k A Real American By Attending One Of Called MASS MEETINGS NEXT It so Important which party you are identified I so long as you take an active part in what Is going |