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Show GANNETT MAKES PRESIDENCY BID Publisher Opens G. 0. P. Nomination Drive ROCHESTER, N. Y., Jan. 17 (INSI Frsnk Gsnnett, newspaper publisher, was in the race today for the Republicsn presidential nomination with ' a campaign pledged to unqualified overthrow of the new deal and Its principles. "Our form of government will be mensced until the new deal and Its theorists are cleaned out, root and branch," Gannett declared at a civic reception and dinner at which he formally announced his candidacy. Entrance of the 63-year-old publisher pub-lisher Into the Republican rare heralded a contest with District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey for the votes of the New York delegation to the G. O. P. national convention. Gannett entered the contest with the support of a number of political politi-cal leaders from up-state rural New York counties and also of leaders In other states. Representative James W. Wsds-worth Wsds-worth of New York pledged his support to the Gsnnett campaign In a letter read at the dinner. On the basis of present alignments, Gannett's backers ware claiming about 30 of New York state's 92 convention votes for him and about 50 votes in other states. Gannett, who organized the committee com-mittee to uphold constitutional government in attacking President Roosevelt's supreme court and governmental gov-ernmental reorganization bills, entered en-tered the csmpaign with a scathing attack on the new deal. He promised. If elected, to produce pro-duce recovery, reduce unemployment unemploy-ment and create a "dynamic, surging surg-ing Americs." The country cannot carry a burden bur-den of crooked "yardsticks," a back-breaking weight of taxes, mounting debt snd an ever-growing load of bureaucrats snd stiM carry on, he said. |