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Show Candidates Air National State and County Issues A discussion of national, states and county issues that have arisen during the present political campaign cam-paign featured "state candidate days" in Cache county Tuesday, . when the Republicans held the spotlight and Wednesday when the Democratic party took up the show. Large gatherings in the Logan junior high school auditorium each night heard the various speakers, while throughout trie day the visiting candidates toured tour-ed the county and met with people peo-ple in the smaller communities. Dr. Adam S. Bennion, candidate J for senate on the Republican ticket discussed in some detail two of the outstanding problems the nation faces, "how to win the war and the peace." He termed ' Thomas E. Dewey, Republican candidate for president as . "one of the keenest young men America Amer-ica has ever produced and one of the finest governors of the great state of New York a man who would make an ideal president. presi-dent. "We are going to win this war not because of anyone in the White House, but because of men (' like Eisenhower, McArthur, Pat-ton, Pat-ton, Nimitz and King on the field of battle," he declared. "These men do not have to con- sult the White House on the road to Berlin of Tokyo. It's a man's war and a warrior's war . . . our leaders will march into the axis capitols no matter who is in the White House." Dr Bennion's suggestion that America foe represented at the peace table by two or three of the strongest members of both the Democratic and Republican parties par-ties in tbie nation, and not the president," drew prolonged approval ap-proval from the enthusiastic audience. au-dience. "We do not want Democratic Demo-cratic or a RepuDlican peace," he charged. "We want an American Ameri-can peace that will hold water." Senator Thomas,' discussing the international situation, said ''Much has been done by the present administration ad-ministration in planning for the peace and I do not think the people peo-ple of the nation want to discard dis-card it." He cited conferences between President Roosevelt and the leaders of other allied nations and said "concrete planning was a feature of the recent Dumbarton Dumbar-ton Oaks meetings. To delay this work until after the war is won, would be disastrous." Senator Thomas told of attending attend-ing meetings held every Saturday morning during the past two years under direction of the state department to formulate the nation's na-tion's policy regarding peace terms. Briant H. Stringham, Republican Republi-can candidate for First District Congressman told the people of the Cache county that the Utah State Agricultural college was one of their igreatest assets and said he would fight to make it greater and would "take the administration ad-ministration of it out of politics." Discussing the progressiveness of the Democratic party, Congressman Cong-ressman Walter K. Granger, who is seeking re-election, declared that "the agriculturists in this nation have benefiUted to a greater great-er degree than any othed individual individ-ual group as a result of reforms made by the present administration." administra-tion." J. Bracken Lee, who aspires to the gubernatorial position on the GOP ticket, charged the present state government with "wasting funds in pracically every major department," He cited his campaign cam-paign pledge of fewer commissions commis-sions and regulations and feWer taxes as the basis on which he would run the state and referred to the old age program, pointing point-ing out how it could be improved. im-proved. , Governor Herbert B. Maw discussed dis-cussed benefits to the farmers under un-der his administration, pointing out that agriculturists have been placed on every major appointive board. He showed how the tax on property for state government has been reduced; reviewed briefly brief-ly the financial condition of the state and declared, "we have absorbed ab-sorbed increased costs of government govern-ment and now are running the state at a lower cost than any time in history." |