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Show Enthusiastic Crowds Attend G. 0. P. Rallies In County Friday Enthusiastic crowds are reported to have attended the various rallies ral-lies staged throughout the county coun-ty on last Friday by the state and county Republican organizations. organiza-tions. Shows were presented in Hurricane and St. George with state speakers featured on the program. LeRoy B. Young, -candidate for Representative in Congress, stressed stress-ed the need for a strong national na-tional defense, but declared that he was opposed to sending men to Europe. lie declared that he believed that the amount now be-(Continued be-(Continued on page eight) Republican Rallies (Continued from first page) ing received by WPA workers and old people could be increased by cutting unnecessary overhead. He also called attention to the need for water facilities in Utah and particularly in this southern section. He went on record favoring fav-oring this work and pledged his full support in its favor. Pointing to the record showing that only 30 per cent of the sugar used in this country can be grown here under the practices maintained under the present New Deal government, gov-ernment, Mr. Young urged the need for a drastic change in this policy declaring that there is no reason why American farmers shouldn't be permitted to raise this important crop. Philo T. Farns worth Jr., candidate candi-date for U. S. Senate, pointed to "suicidal policy" of the New Deal democrats who have brought this nation to the verge of bankruptcy and at the same time left the nation na-tion woefully unprotected from aggressor nations. Particular attention at-tention was called by Mr. Farns-vvorth Farns-vvorth to the danger of the third term and its accompanying breaking break-ing down of the traditions of our government. "Perhaps the most enthusiastically enthusiasti-cally received of the three speakers speak-ers was Melvin C. Harris, candidate candi-date for Attorney General", reports re-ports LeRoy H. Cox, county republican re-publican chairman. "Mr. Harris called attention to the need of living up to the moral obligations of keeping platform pledges. He recalled for the benefit of the audience some of the planks from the democratic platform of 1932 which stressed the need for retrenchment re-trenchment and economy in the national government and pointed to how President Roosevelt and his party had thrown all of these pledges over-board. He directed attention to the recent pledges of Herbert B. Maw, democratic candidate for governor, to throw out the present machine element that had entrenched itself in the capital building and had promised to clean up the state road commission. com-mission. And he ended by calling call-ing attention to the statement recently made by Maw to the effect ef-fect that it wouldn't be possible to get rid of these trained men and that his party didn't have the men to replace them so. that they will be kept in office if he is elected." |