Show Senator Thomas Comes Coines Home To Aid Blood in Race Tight right IL r s a. a SEN ELBERT D D. D THOMAS Sees Tight Campaign in Utah States Senator Elbert D D. Di Thomas who as a member of the senate civil liberties committee commit commit- tee recently helped to avert a threatened coal war in Pennsylvania PennsylvanIa Pennsylvania Pennsyl Pennsyl- vania returned to Utah Friday to take up arms in a political war whose major objective he conceded conceded conceded con con- ceded will be the reelection of Governor Governor Governor Gov Gov- Henry H. H Blood Admitting that Utah is in th the e midst of a a. tight campaign over ove r the governors governor's post Senator Troma s explained that he turned down a request of the Democratic high hig h command that he remain in the easto east t to direct the party's senatorial campaign campaign campaign cam cam- t to assist Utah leaders lenders i in n keeping the state capitol Demo Demo- cratic Its a tight campaign he said but I think we will be successful The main issue is reelection of ot Governor Governor Gov Blood There seems to b bno be beno beno e no doubt that the presidential an and d congressional tickets will carry by big bis majorities Offices to Be le Opened Senator Thomas will open headquarters in Ut Utah h. h to aid aidin aidin aidin in the gubernatorial contest and mid at atthe atthe atthe the same time to direct the senatorial senatorial sena sena- tonal c campaigns in Montana Idaho Wyoming Colorado New Mexico and Oregon While his efforts in behalf of the national ticket will take him out of bf the state frequently frequent frequent- ly Iy he expects to stump for Governor Governor Governor Gov Gov- Blood here most of the time before election day C Commenting on Alfred E E. Smiths Smith's j new anti-new deal speech in the east I Thursday night Utah's junior senator senator sena sena- senai i tor said his party regrets Smiths Smith's defection but feels secure in the 1 knowledge that the former NewYork New NewYork Y York ork governor has been picking j th the loser Joser for a lo long g time Governor Landon in senator Thom Thomas Thomas' s' s opinion through his indorsement indorsement indorsement in in- of the gold standard stands alone on his money views particularly since the devaluation of the French franc World money is now stabilized around the American dollar dolIar which J 5 is in turn stabilized on a metallic base he declared This was made possible by the good neighbor policy of President Roosevelt Had Mayor Harman W. W Peery of Ogden persisted in a proposal to adopt the Democratic presidential electors for his independent ticket in the governors governor's race Senator Thomas said President Roosevelt would not have permitted his name to appear on the ballot under the Peery emblem Precedent Set President Roosevelt has adopted this stand in other states where independent candidates have tickets tickets tickets tick tick- ets in the field he explained It would have been unfair to do other other- wise Speaking of the recent senate hearing on alleged violations of civil liberties in Pennsylvania coal coalfields coalfields coalfields fields and other centers of labor trouble Senator Thomas explained that the senate committee had succeeded succeeded succeeded suc suc- in averting a serious situation situation situation situa situa- tion in the Keystone state Unemployed miners have been taking coal from abandoned mines and selling the bootleg product in New York and Washington he said Coal operators complained that the practice had taken away 10 per cent of their market The Penns Pennsylvania state government government govern govern- government ment declined to take action and the mine operators purchased gas with which they proposed to flood the mines from which the bootleg coal was being taken A real war threatened and the whole controversy controversy controversy contro contro- versy was aired before the com com- We convinced the coal Aerators that to use gas as a weapon against trespassers would be to provoke certain violence and bloodshed and I think that the hearing has caused them to abandon the idea Comparing the L. L D. D S. S church relief program with that of th the federal government the Utah senator senator sena sena- tor said the essential difference between between be be- tween them is that the church plan is based basci on the principle of brotherhood brotherhood brotherhood broth and sacrifice whereas the federal program is based solely on economics and social insurance |