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Show v NT S - , w Former Governor Maw Announces Candidacy for Senator In making his announcement Governor Maw, who has lonjr been regarded aa one of the top lead-era lead-era of the party in Utah, urged the Democratic party to take the lead in reducing government expenditures, ex-penditures, warning that excessive exces-sive taxation can destroy the gov- j ernment "This reduction in expenditures can be done in the nation as it was done in Utah during my administration," ad-ministration," said the former chief executive. "If elected to the United States senate, I shall do my best to accomplish similar results re-sults on the federal level." While he declared strong opposition op-position to both "socialized medicine medi-cine and federal control on restrictions re-strictions on education," he said "the people of Utah are entitled to their full share of federal aid for state projects. Therefor I declare de-clare myself as favoring federal aid - to education, highways, welfare, wel-fare, public building, reclamatiop and other beneficial programs." His statement also emphasized the "prosperity which the Democratic Demo-cratic party has brought to the people of Utah and to the nation;", cited the need for further reclamation reclama-tion and power development on the Colorado river and smaller streams of the state; called for curbs on government interference with the private affairs of citizens i and businesses; asserted the need for elimination of "graft and sub-versiveness sub-versiveness from federal agencies," and urged programs to eliminate the "destructive and menacing in- fluence" of the communism in this country and the world. Other points of his . platform will be brought out during the campaign, he added. Mr. Maw was born in Ogden Marrh 11. 1893. attended elemen- tary schools in Ogden and Salt Lake City and was graduated from the University of Utah. He later received a doctor of jurisprudence degree from the Northwestern University. A member of the , Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints he served as an Army chaplain during the first world war. He taught speech at the University of Utah and for a while was dean of men there. " In 1928 he was elected to the state senate, re-elected in 1932 and 1934 and became president of that body in 1935. After serving two terms as governor, he won his party's nomination for a third term in 1948 but was defeated in the final election by Gov. J. Bracken Lee. |
