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Show fage Friday, October SI, 1958 THE UTAH STATESMAN 2 a LOOKING FORWARD to a sweeping victory in Salt Lake County are execu-- tlve members of the Central Committee. Seated, left, to right, are: Thelma : Th Stage The following is reprinted through the courtesy of the Washington Times and Post Herald Oct. 20, 1958 edition. Interest in the Utah senatorial campaign has been heightened by increasing indications that it may send isolationist to tiie United States Senate a whose chief interest these days is his scheme to abolish. the income tax. The idea of anyone campaigning for a seat in the national legislature on a platform sounds like a jest in Washington. But it is no jest to Sen. Arthur V. Waitkins who is making the fight of his official life against rip-snorti- wipeout-the-income-t- ax THE UTAH STATESMAN A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to Good Government" HARRY B. MILLER, Publisher H. V. WRIGHT, Editor Mrs. Madge H. Fairbanks. Mrs. LaVerl Neilsen .. Mrs. Janet Schoenhals . Lori Rytting Miss Diane Thomas Miss Mary Gardner .... Dick Richardson 421 Church Associate Editor Editorial Editorial State Central Committee .Womens Division Art .1 ...M.l..IM.H...HHiMI.M..MBCartOOQlSt Street Phone EM 49 Entered as 2nd Class matter at the Post Office at Salt Laka City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879 Subscription rate $1.00 per year Published weekly at 421 Church Street Salt Lake City, Utah National Editorial Association 1958 VoL 12; No. 42 it iace Friday, October 31, 1958 Kean, acting office manager, and Delila R. Abbott, Standing are: Robert E. Freed, treasurer; Sherman B. Lowe, rfiaimmw; and W. L. Cottrell. vice-chairm-an. Me- - The Lee program would also wipe out foreign aid, take the United States out of the United Nations, and abolish the Selective Service. He has gone so far that one wonders when he will extend his demands to abolition of the armed forces and reestablishment of the Articles of Confederation. Beneath the surface cf the Lee campaign there also appears to be a determined effort to punish Senator Watkins because of the able and courageous part he played in the censure cf Senator McCarthy. Political friends of the late Wisconsonian are said to be pouring money into the Lee campaign. As Mr. Lee is also the national chair-hi- s man of For America,' the extreme reactionaries which compose that organization apparently see in him a diance to get a foothold for their views in the Senate. Interest in the contest thus extends far beyond the confines of the Beehive State, and it will take more than polls and pundits to convince the country fhpt Utah is ready to secede from the twentieth century. in one of the shrewdest and most colorful demagogues Gov. J. Bracken Lee. the West has pnoduced-form- er One of the strangest things about the contest is that both Senator Watkins and Mr. Lee are Republi- cans. Having lost the GOP nomination, Mr. Lee is now running as an independent. The Democratic candidate, Frank E. Moss, is said by the political pundits (with support from a poll in Salt Lake Coun- ty) to be trailing both Lee and Watkins. Because of extremism, Mr. Lee has succeeded in making him- self the chief issue in the campaign. At a recent rally where all three of the candidates spoke, both Senator Watkins and his Democratic opponent directed their chief fire at Mr. Lees demand for repeal of the Six- teenth Amendment, which made the income tax con-stitutional. STATU? A Spendthrift, Stymied Klation? all important date for political this parties, politicians and the general public-loo- ms week as the final hurdle to be crossed by a small army of candidates representing both of the major political dependent factions. Fartlfs,aiK This campaign gives us a critical choice, recent- ly stated President D wightD. Eisenhower. g Either we choose government or sen- November 4-- that left-win- sibte, forward-lookin- g gov- - government-spendth- rift moment or responsible government-overpoweriFederal government or government kept dose to home frustrated, stymied government or efficient government able to keep its promise to America, he ng said. Prospects for a Republican victory in Utah gro of many candidates stronger "every day, but the fate " ' maybe polls. ' -r- ather than the the deciding ballots focal candidates. Their efforts have been more inspiring to all party members, but die ultimate success of those efforts and of the efforts of the hundreds of Utah Republicans who have given unselfishly of their time and energy in this campaign, depend upon vou The issues are dear, peace with the a RepuScanTw Plsib!e likcty higher taxes; freedom with the Republicans, or probable regimentation under alien concepts of economics and government Your voite counts on November 4. As President Hie task is to see that Republicans who support Our politics go to the polls, and that they opposition-ca- st ln Utah, Vice President Nixon, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, Secretary of the Interior Fred A. Seaton and Senator Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois have campaigned vigorously on behalf of the vote Republican." |