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Show Democrats Are Moving With Caution In Seeking Congressional Seat Although the field for Democratic Demo-cratic nomination for the House of Representatives from the Second Sec-ond Congressional District is wide open no candidates had come forward by late Thursday. The probable list of candidates once long, has shrunk to two men being mentioned as most likely pendent. Observers note that money and the quality of President John F. Kennedy's popularity has had a lot to do with the lack of candidates candi-dates in the race thus far. They note that the high cost of campaigning these days is keeping a number of people who would have announced out of the race this year. And all potential candidates are trying to measure strength of the president's popularity to determine if it will be a help or a drag on individual chances. to run for the office being vacated va-cated by Rep. Pavid S. King in his bid for the Senate nod. They are Bruce S. Jenkins, Salt Lake attorney and once a candidate for mayor of Salt Lake City, and State Rep. Ernest H. Dean, Speaker of the House. Republicans have one avowed candidate for the House nomination nomi-nation in State Sen. Sherman P. Lloyd. There has been considerable con-siderable speculation that Reed Benson, son of former Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, would seek the GOP nomination. In the First District neither party has a formally declared candidate, although Rep. M. Blaine Peterson is considered a sure thing to seek re-election on the Democrat ticket. He is not expected to have opposition for the nomination. Republicans are expecting to see Laurene Burton of Ogden, administrative assistant assist-ant to Gov. George D. Clyde seek the nomination. Others are still in the "possible candidate" category. cate-gory. The picture is vastly different in the race for the one seat for the U. S. Senate being contested in November. In this race, the Democrats have three announced candidates, Rep. David S. King, Calvin Rampton and Joseph H. Weston. On the Republican side incumbent incum-bent Sen. Wallace F. Bennett is expected to make formal announcement an-nouncement for re-election soon. His organization has been functioning func-tioning at full speed ahead for some months. . Still in the background is Salt Lake City Mayor J. Bracken Lee. At this time the mayor has not indicated whether or not he will sit out this election or seek the Republican nomination for the U. S. Senate or run as an inde- |