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Show Candidates Tour Country In Search of Support concluded, could mean the sur- vival of freedom all around the globe. The administration's tight money policies drew criticism from Sen. Johnson. These have pushed the "cost of money up to a point where small businessmen business-men and farmers and consumers are finding it very difficult to conduct their affairs," he said. Symington, addressing a Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Oklahoma Okla-homa City, indicted what he said were two tragic policies of the administration. "First is the policy of strength through weakness standing idly by while over half a million citizens are forced out of work for months, he said. "My second indictment is at least as serious. If they knew the facts, the people would never condone policies which are placing plac-ing us behind the communists in nearly all fields except consumer con-sumer comforts. Other issues brought up by weekend politicking included an old theme peace and prosperity prosper-ity and a new one beatniks. Sen. Thruston B. Morton of Kentucky, the Republican national na-tional chairman, said domestic prosperity and the keeping of world peace would be the major 1960 issues. Gov. Williams accused Republicans Repub-licans of behaving like beatniks, adding: "The one good thing about some beatniks their protest against senseless conformity the Republicans have scrapped." Political activity on the national na-tional level was gaining in intensity in-tensity this week with major candidates in both parties touring tour-ing the country in search of delegate dele-gate strength. Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York entered another powerful pow-erful political arena this week after spending four days touring the western strongholds of Vice President Richard M. Nixon. Rockefeller, who promises to announce between Jan. 15 and Feb. 15 whether he'll run for the Republican presidential nomination, nomina-tion, turned his attention to labor la-bor and addressed the annual convention of the New York State AFL-CIO in Buffalo. While reports said he dented some Nixon strength in the west, none of these dents showed in the week end's major political action. The western Republican conference met in Los Angeles and elected Edward S. Shattuck of Los Angeles, a strong Nixon man, as chairman. Democratic maneuvering for the presidential nomination also was evident. Sen. John F. Kennedy, Ken-nedy, Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson, Gov. G. Mennen Williams, Sen. Stuart Symington and Gov. Edmund Ed-mund Brown of California all possible candidates made talks discussing the issues for 1960. In addition, a move started in Wisconsin to enter a stand-in candidate for Adlai Stevenson in the state's preferential primary. Stevenson, the party's presidential presiden-tial nominee in 1952 and 1956, has said he will not enter any primary. There is a possibility of a 3-way 3-way Wisconsin tussle, for both Sen. Hubert Humphrey and Sen. Kennedy may run in the primary. pri-mary. In his address to the AFL-CIO convention, Rockefeller said an expanding economy would solve the problem of automation. He said a healthier economy would mean more iobs. "The real problem is one of transition, a transition which seeks to avoid human hardship. Rockefeller's four day trip took him to California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Although he toppled no towers, observers felt he implanted some doubts in the minds of Nixon supporters. support-ers. Some cautiously admitted that Rockefeller "has made a lot of friends." Meanwhile, Democrats continued con-tinued to fire on the record of the Eisenhower administration. Sen. Kennedy, addressing a conference con-ference in Augusta, Maine, said that "since 1952, the power, prestige and standing Of the U.S. in relation to the communist world has declined." Election of a Democratic Congress Con-gress and president next year, he |