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Show Democrat Presidential Hopefuls Look To Oregon Primary As "True Test" if Although the Democratic Party ' at present has only one publicly announced candidate for the presidential nomination there arem ore than one who have all but made the fateful announcement. announce-ment. About the most "announced unannounced" is Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts. The only actually announced candidate candi-date is Sen Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota. Attention has been drawn to i; Sen. Kennedy this week by his t- actions during a recent short visit to Oregon, the only state where presidential primary laws have been written so as to obtain a real idea of how people feel about a presidential candidate. Sen. Kennedy was in Oregon a few days ago. While there he layed the foundation for his state r organization and, according to f the Christian Science Monitor, ! he also fired the first oratorical t salvos in his bid to win support in the state's primary. The Monitor reports that "during "dur-ing his three days in Oregon Sen. Kennedy furnished the following follow-ing evidence of his active candidacy: can-didacy: He confirmed the selection of Mrs. Sylvia Nemer of Portland as the coordinator of his Oregon campaign, for which a statewide organzation will be formed. He told Oregon newspapermen at a press conference that he considered con-sidered the Oregon primary to be "extremely significant," and that he expected all serious candidates can-didates for the nomination to make an active campaign in Oregon. Ore-gon. He delivered campaign style addresses before a Democratic Party fund-raising banquet in Portland and before the Oregon State AFL-CIO convention in Seaside. "Senator Kennedy probably will face the challenge of a number num-ber of other Democrats on the Oregon ballot. Sen. Humphrey already is well along in his Oregon Ore-gon plans. He visited the state a few weeks ago and will go back in October. Oregon's law required that the Secretary of State place on the ballot the names of "all those recognized nationally as candidates." candi-dates." Adlai Stevenson has publicly announced that he does not want to participate in the Oregon campaign cam-paign but has not taken the necessary nec-essary steps filing of a signed statement with the Secretary of State to make sure his name dose not appear. Oregon's senior Democratic Senator Wayne L. Morse also has been considered as a favorite son candidate. Sen. Stuart Symington of Missouri Mis-souri has read the Oregon law and believes it will require that his name be placed on the ballot. bal-lot. And the name of Sen. Lyndon Lyn-don Johnson of Texas also is expected to appear. |