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Show Utah Democrats Scanning Field Of Likely President Candidates Adali E. Stevenson can also be found among Utah party members. mem-bers. At this point, however, no effort is being made to organize on their behalf. Mr. Stevenson, who twice has won the nomination and twice lost the presidential contest to President Dwight D. Eisenhower (Continued on Page 8) Utah Democrats are being Wooed by most of the major candidates can-didates for the party's presidential presiden-tial nomination but this far the statewide organizations have not been set up for any of the office seekers. Political observers report that backers of Sen. John F. Kennedy are perhaps most active in this field. During the past week meetings have been held in both Salt Lake City and Ogden with the purpose of setting up an organization or-ganization on Sen. Kennedy's behalf. The organization would work for the election of pro-Kennedy pro-Kennedy delegates to the 1960 Democratic national convention in Los Angeles in 1960. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, who has visited the state several times in recent weeks, is known to have support from Beehive State Democrats but thus far a Humphrey for President organization organi-zation has not taken shape. And Sen. Stuart Symington has some avid backers who are reported ready to go to work as son as the senator from Missouri gives the sign. Evidence of support for Sen. Lyndon Johnson of Texas and i i ! 1 Utah Democrats Scanning Field Of likely President Candidates (Continued from Page 1) still maintains considerable support sup-port in Utah. Mr. Stevenson insists in-sists he is not a candidate this year but this has not discouraged many of his supporters locally, or nationally. Some would be Stevenson backers reportedly are moving toward the Kennedy or Symington Syming-ton camps because of Mr. Ste-! venson's aloof position. On the Republican side It appears ap-pears that Vice President Richard Rich-ard M. Nixon is far and away the favorite candidate with some support being shown for New York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller. Rock-efeller. Missing from the scene of active ac-tive candidates in the Democratic camp this year is Sen. Estes L. Kefauver, the party's vice-presidential candidate last time. But although he is not seeking the nomination and is not expected ex-pected to be "drafted" at the convention, the lanky Tennessee lawmaker is expected to pull considerable weight at the convention. con-vention. He still commands a "die-hard" body of Democrats who came to him in the early days of his campaigning cam-paigning and have remained faithful. During his many campaigns cam-paigns in presidential primaries and int he last presidential election, elec-tion, Sen. Kefauver came to know thousands of Democrats in the nation. Some observers predict he will know by first name more than half of the Los Angeles convention conven-tion delegates and that means he will have influence out of proportion pro-portion to his role as a senator from Tennessee. The question among observers is: Who will Senator Kefauver support? At present Sen. Symington Sym-ington seems most likely to gain his help, but the senator from the Volunteer state isn't saying just now.. |