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Show Confident Demos Seek Senatorial Candidate Utah Democrats this week were reported launched on a search to find a candidate who has obtained ob-tained prominence in some non-political non-political pursuit but who carries no scars of intra-party conflict between ilberal and conservative elements. Who this candidate might be was subject for wide speculation this week as tempo of political activity was being stepped up. The thinking behind such a search is that such an individual could best minimize party malcontents mal-contents and also could win over a lot of dissatisfied Republicans. Democrats are hoping that 1958 will be similar to the 1946 off-year off-year elections which saw Repub licans sweep to victory after a long series of setbacks. It was during the 1946 elections that incumbent Senator Arthur V. Watkins sneaked into office. He is seeking re-election this year under circumstances far less favorable. fa-vorable. Although the search for the messiah is under way, old stand-bys stand-bys in the party's candidate stable are also being groomed for a try at the nomination. Among these one hears the names of State Senator Alonzo Hopkin, who ran a strong race against Senator Wallace F. Bennett Ben-nett during the presidential election elec-tion in 1956; former State Sena- i (Continued on Page 5) Confident Demos Seek Senatorial Candidate (Continued from Page 1) tor Ira A. Huggins of Ogden; Salt Lake County Attorney Frank E. Moss, who showed considerable con-siderable strength in seeking the Utah governor nomination in the last election; Ward C. Holbrook, a member of the State Welfare Commission and a former state senator; former Democratic Senator Sen-ator Abe Murdock, who just stepped down from 10 years of the National Labor Relations Board; former Governor Herbert B. Maw and Warwick C. Lamo-reaux, Lamo-reaux, former state senator. Candidates are expected to come out well before the party mass meetings in the spring. The mass meetings will elect delegates dele-gates to the party conventions where candidates for the primary pri-mary will be selected. There also has been considerable consider-able speculation on the two Congressional Con-gressional contests where Repub- i lican incumbents face serious opposition op-position this year. Rep. William A. Dawson is expected ex-pected to seek re-election al-tlugh al-tlugh some observers believe l2still may go into the Republican Repub-lican primary against Senator Watkins if developments make this action seem likely to succeed. suc-ceed. Rep. Henry A. Dixon, former Utah State University president now seeking his third term, is expected to have no primary opposition op-position but will come in for strong competition in the general election. Democratic prospects being discussed for the Congressional races include George L. Frost, Weber County commissioner and District Judge Lewis Jones of Brigham City in the First District, Dis-trict, and Oscar W. McConkie, Jr., and Allan C. Howe in the Second District. Mr. McConkie ran strong in losing to Rep. Dawson Daw-son in 1956. Senator Watkins is expected to have opposition in the primary either in the form of former Gov. J. Bracken Lee or W. A. Lang, a young Salt Lake businessman. There also is the possibility, mentioned men-tioned earlier, of Rep. Dawson coming in. In addition ta the national offices of-fices a number of county offices will be filled. Most of the Legislature Legis-lature will be elected. Activity on the state level has been slow to generate. It is assumed as-sumed that most incumbents will seek reelection. |