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Show Hbout politics The nominating conventions conven-tions are over, the chips are down, and both major political politi-cal parties are loading their guns for an all-out campaign to elect their candidates to office in the November elections. elec-tions. Primaries, to narrow the slates down to one candidate candi-date for each office, will be held Tuesday, Sept. 5. At the Democratic nominating nominat-ing convention in Beaver last Friday, with W. G. White of Milford presiding as county chairman, Milton Weilenman I of Salt Lake keynoted the ses-i ses-i sion, stressing the fact that although al-though the Republicans charge the Democrats with waste in government, the actual operation opera-tion of general government was but 3c out of each tax dollar. Mr. Weilenman didn't do much dwelling on where the other 97c of the tax dollar went, but did point out that the public debt had been reduced from 279.8 billion dollars to 252.8 billion dollars under the Truman administration. ad-ministration. Judge Crockett, Democratic candidate for the Utah Supreme Court, was introduced and made a brief talk. John P. Barton and Laban M. Burt, both of Beaver, were elected to spots on the primary ticket for State Representative. Rep-resentative. L. A. Wynaught of Milford was eliminated in the balloting. Under the new election laws, which didn't seem to be too well understood by either the Democrats or Republicans, no proxies or substitutions in delegates del-egates is permitted, and both parties were short delegates in several precincts. Other eliminations at the primary, pri-mary, for county offices, will be for county treasurer and sheriff, on the Democratic side of the ballot, and for sheriff on the Republican side. Democratic Demo-cratic hopefuls are Wendell D. Ross and Lynn Ray Baker, for treasurer, and Leon Williams and Henry Willesen, for sheriff. sher-iff. Republican sheriff candidates are Jasper Puffer and Omni C. Cartwright. Balloting for State Representative Repre-sentative by the Republicans was very close. Allen C. Reynolds, with 13 votes, was eliminated. Ernest Joseph and Sherman Carter each received re-ceived 15 votes to gain places on the ballot. Thompson Murdock, county Republican chairman, presided over the Tuesday afternoon convention and introduced the speakers, Howard Call of Brig-ham Brig-ham City and Preston Jones of Nephi, both candidatese for the Republican nomination for U S House of Representatives. Mr. Call spoke briefly, stressing stress-ing the need for Americanism First in our national as well as state offices. He scored the ad-! ad-! ministration for their neglect of I reclamation in the west, and for their "tremendous spending sprees." Mr. Jones warmed up slow then turned loose both barrels, raking the Democrats over the coals on many counts, and refuting refut-ing their laims to "bringing Bushnell and Geneva to Utah." Mr. Jones stated the Bushnell Hospital site was ,thosen by army officers "before Senator Thomas even heard about it," and charged the senator with waste of time and money in insisting in-sisting that a group of Washington Washing-ton officials make a tour of Utah to "save his face" after the senator had announced they were to tour Utah and select a site. Rue L. Clegg, Republican candidate for U S Senator, after touring the state for 60 days, says "The farmer is not entirely happy with our present farm program, and they are overwhelmingly over-whelmingly opposed to the Brannan plan." Bill Baker of Orem, independent indepen-dent candidate for the U S House of Representatives, was in Milford this week raising Cain with both Democrats and Republicans alike, and said the American public is "sick of both parties." "This, may be the start of a political revolution," Mr. Baker said. "We've got to reduce taxes and do away with waste in government. You'd be surprised how much support I'm getting from the rank and file of the everyday voter." |