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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. OCTOBER 30. 1936. 8 Editorial IPage Tine Utalh ofi News L-iabo- u? issues and then a few trumped-ucharges are usually brought Spending Money false the voters into blind alleys a lead to out scent and create and Ingratitude and away from the more important matters at stake. The campaign now being brought to a close is no excep( Continued from Tage 4) tion. It has been the story of many petty tional For Vice President exchange. There was charges being made against the party and the people in power not securitybusiness or commisenough in Utah. As a general statement the voters may discount these sions to Memberpay expenses. b; uA- - 'r charges to the heat of a political campaign. Tire party and ships declined in price to the lowest the people in power are nearly always the object of attack by level in years. Some brokers went out of business. other parties and other candidates.. 6' , , What did Roosevelt do? lie orfhw, There is, however, one really basic issue in the presen , 7 dered an investigation, gathered Q campaign that supersedes all others. That is the New Dea the facts, placed the exchanges and whether it is to be continued in Utah. In general the peo under a commission with power to pie are conscious of what the New Deal has meant and shoulc prevent manipulation, false news, vvv. be capable of judging the validity of those charges which are thin margin transactions, selling methods, and other made against it. This point seems, to carry so much more that were against the practices weight than the minor issues which have been created as to public interest. When these new outweigh them all. regulations became laws, the Wall The people are able to judge whether they want the New Street boys started shouting from Deal continued in Utah and that is the paramount considera the house tops that the market was that security prices would tion which will be determined in our state election Tuesday ruined, remain low for years, that busiIf they want the NewDeal the voters should in all consistency ness could not revive with the stock elect men to office in Utah who will keep the New Deal market restricted by regulations. work here, people who will continue to join with the nationa As usual, they were wrong. What actually happened? The publics administration in applying the New Deal benefits. confidence returned as soon as they If they are' opposed to President Roosevelt and his New were convinced that they were goDeal the situation is reversed. There can be no consistency in ing to receive a square deal. The JOHN N. CARNER voting in favor of the New Deal in the nation and then voting activity on the exchange improved, for state and local candidates who are not in sympathy with transactions increased, and one or traded daily is For Supreme Court Justice that New Deal and who will not and cannot apply the program two million shares now. Brokbusiness MARTIN M. LARSON just ordinary in the state and counties. ers are making money, prices have This lends more weight than usual this year to the oft advanced as business improved; the very nicely repeated plea of both major political parties to vote their public is getting alongand For Secretary of State without the with regulations It tickets is a situation for the people to determine E. E. MONSON straight. he manipulation. In fact, the pubwhether they do, or do not want President Roosevelt and the ic has enjoyed a nice conservative New Deal. There are many inherent dangers in scratching a )ull market. In the past if the mar-cFor Attorney General ballot which will doubtless cause many voters in this state to enjoyed an important advance JOSEPH CHEZ lose their votes for and against the New Deal, but apart from ddring an administration, the was given part of the this fact there can be little sense in voting for President residentI will last dollar bet credit. Roosevelt and scratching Governor Blood or others running on ;hat if a RepublicanmyPresident had For Treasurer Deal platform and voting for other candidates who )een in office during the past a REESE M. REESE are running in opposition to the New Deal. eighteen months, we would have lad his name attached to the exchanges prosperous rise in securiFor Auditor ty prices. JOHN W. GUY . . . . . . I maintain that Roosevelt restored the publics confidence in ;he security exchanges, that the from 1) p Our Candidates oft-repeat- For President V -- 7jf P . 1Y V.V.-- 7A &! (A .Ai o FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT ed frs "IV ' high-pressu- re et pro-Ne- w DEALS DEALS (Continued For Superintendent of Public Instruction CHARLES IL SKIDMORE DEALS Page to-i irosperity the members enjoy n elimina-,ioto the due is largely ay of the unfair practices which loosevelt destroyed. Perhaps among the Presidents bitterest enemies are some of those Wall Street men whose discredited businesses have been restored to prosThey ,will publicd ffavor. perity and X .1 ten J A A , tel T am filing you the a socialist. in Wall Street these of 0pjni0n or was it a surrender of Carpenter and Dillman, each to the other? Anyhow the deal to sell the Townsend Plan people the peanut pension river to Dillman was completed wheredown For Congressman First District Dillman ABE MURDOCK by agreed, if elected Governor of Utah, to ask the incoming legislature to memorialize Congress in behalf of the Townsend Plan. Carpenter on his part agreed to have Dillman For Congressman Second Distric address a special meeting of Townsend adherents last Tuesday HENRY II. BLOOD J. W. ROBINSON , v old folks along with a lot of mush about Dill-- 1 evening to mans father refusing a proffered pension. Dillman talked GOVERNOR ISSUES A CHALLENGE about almost everything except the Townsend Plan at the Townsend meeting, in what is without doubt the prize side-stePick Roosevelt Governor Henry H. Blood in winding up his campaign for ping episode of the campaign, Out of twenty this week threw down the gauntlet with a ringing The game was fixed up to get the Townsend folks lined up WASHINGTON asked to writers news political challenge to his political opponents to show how they would for Dillman by soft soap without Dillmans being publicly com-hav- e pick the winner in the presidential improved upon his stewardship in the New Deal in Utah, mitted to the Townsend Plan. Just another of those political race, only one has selected GoverHe charged his opponents with attempting to confuse the efforts of the Republican candidate of being all things to all nor Landon, according to NEWS real issue of the campaign by issuing trumped up charges which men, while behind the scenes being body, soul and britches at WEEK. Averaging the predictions, the had no real foundation. They have used every political trick to the beck and call of the standpat manipulators of Utahs Rewriters think President Roosevelt confound the people and confuse the real issues, Governor publican party. will be by 374 electoral Blood charged in addresses delivered at rallies in several sec- The Dillman-Carpentdeal has all of the earmarks of votes to 157, and with a popular tions of the state. rank betrayal of the Townsend Plan members. Dillman has plurality of 3,625,000. David Lawrence and Mark Sullivan were The real issue, he said, is whether the New Deal is to be made no public commitments on his attitude toward the d who declined to prein Utah. The opposition has been creating a smoke ing pension plan, nor to the Townsend people themselves as to among eight dict. screen by seizing upon petty matters, magnifying details and his position on proposed pension legislation. The concessions The man who selected Mr. Lanbroadcasting misrepresentations and in some in- he made to Carpenter probably will not bind him to do any- don gave him 296 votes. selections The writers who made stances outright falsehoods, he asserted. This has been for thing at all for the Townsend cause, if he be elected governor. for the magazine were: the obvious purpose of misleading the people away from the We challenge Carpenter to show any forthright or sane S. Allen (United FeaRobert reason why Dillman should receive preferential consideration tures, Stern newspapers). major issue of the campaign. Behind this program of misrepresentation and false at the hands of Townsend officials, when Harman W. Peery, Raymond P. Brandt, (St. Louis Governor Blood his charges, charged opponents with having independent candidate for Governor is a charter member of Walker S. Buel (Cleveland for their real purpose, the defeat of the New Deal in Utah. Townsend Club No. at Ogden, holding membership certifiHe pledged himself to stand solidly on the state and national cate No. 7. Peery has been a member of the Ogden Town PLAIN DEALER). Erwin D. Canham (CHRISTIAN Democratic platforms and asserted that he would continue the send club for about two years. Obviously he believes in the SCIENCE MONITOR). ideals of the New Deal in Utah as long as he remained goyer- - Townsend Plan, and if elected could be relied upon to do d Raymond Clapper nor. own claims for reelection, he said, rested largely on erything possible to further the revolving pension. newspapers). Peery, a his administration of the New Deal and also on state measures Townsend member, is left out in the cold, while Dillman, the George Creel (COLLIERS Magazine). directed at strengthening and supporting the New Deal prois urged upon the Townsend following. Why? J. Fred Essary (Baltimore SUN.) gram in this state. Charles 0. Gridley Why? Why? (Denver DISInstead of stooping to devices to confuse and conceal the Moline Peoria this is STAR, a deal POST, that could Maybe actually Judge Rogers dis-real issues with trumped-u- p PATCH). let ( falsehoods, explain. Certainly the public and the members of the Town my opponents cuss the real issue, the New Deal, he challenged. Let them send movement are entitled to explanations explanations that Arthur Sears Henning (Chicago TRIBUNE). tell the people how they would have improved upon it or how explain George R. Holmes (International they would have bettered my stewardship of it in Utah. Dillman, the Townsend candidate for Governor, should in News Service). all honor tell the public if his conversion to Townsendism is Arthur Krock (The New York If Car- TIMES). genuine or is merely for the duration of the campaign. Walter Lippmann (New York penter can explain why his assistants are urging that Dillman HERALD TRIBUNE Syndicate). be voted for rather than Peery, or Governor Blood, let him do Paul Mallon (North American Political oratory and propaganda wax heated at this stage so. A little candor is in order. Newspaper Alliance). of an election campaign. Petty and insignificant matters are Clinton L. Mosher (Brooklyn Mr. that it the is that fact Carpenter deplores Why many DAILY seized distorted EAGLE). and misrepresented. of the old folks groups in Salt Lake and Utah counties have being upon, magnified, John ODonnell (New York Trumped-u- p charges are being freely made which all too fre- endorsed and are supporting Governor Blood and the straight DAILY NEWS). quently have little or no real foundation. Democratic ticket? Clifford L. Prevost (Detroit It is an old trick to parade before the public all sorts of FREE PRESS). Evidently these old people of Salt Lake and Utah statements which have little or no real importance. II t is, in ties do their own thinking and realize that Governor Blood is a Thomas L. Stokes (New York ). fact,, the old familiar art of camouflage applied to the arts of jNew Dealer and will cooperate with President Roosevelts pro Van Slyke (New York George First smoke is a screen created to befog the more vital gram. politics. 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