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Show wBpt iPi f LV i' i i , i By Harry Marlowe Vice President Nixon said a couple of significant things in Salt Lake City last week end things of great importance in Utah's political campaign. One concerned directly the tragic and puzzling case of Rep. Douglas R. Stringfellow. The vice president seemed to about sum it up when he said that while everyone felt sympathy for the youthful Utah Congressman, Utah Republicans Repub-licans had done the only tiling possible when they accepted the resignation as a candidate of the 32-year-old Rep. Stringfellow. j "The Republican party," 1 ho vice president commented, "has set up some high standards of integrity for its administration.' Rep. Stringfellow simply did not live up to those standards." That the Strengfellow story hurt the Renuhlican nartv. as well as the Congressman, his friends and his family, is evident. evi-dent. How much the Stringfellow confession will have on next Tuesday's election is not as clear. I But the vice president pointed out a significant fact when he said that in many respects, the Stringfellow story, with its atten-1 dant publicity, will help the can- i didacy of Dr. Henry Aldous Dix-j on, the Utah State Agricultural ' College president who was "drafted" by the GOP for First Congressional District standard-bearer. standard-bearer. There are several things which an off-year election needs. One, the most important, is an interest inter-est in the campaign. Secondly, a great deal of publicity Is needed for the candidate. The Stringfellow story did both for the candidacy of Dr. Dixon. Granted, it Is not an easy task to go Into a campaign with only two weeks left, and be faced with a seasoned campaigner who jhas won a district congressional I seat six times out of the past' seven elections. But Rep Stringfellow was leading lead-ing Walter K. Granger, the Democratic Dem-ocratic candidate, by a a 3 to 1 margin in Weber County up until un-til the war hero hoax exploded. Obviously, he established that lead with some Democratic support. sup-port. And just as obviously if a Republican candidate is to win. he must hold a good deal of that support. Dr. Dixon, known the length ahd breadth of Weber County, is a man who could hold that margin. He is also well known in Cache County, second largest in the district, dis-trict, and that popularity should win him enough votes to offset the admitted Granger superiority superiori-ty in Carbon County, which is always al-ways strongly Democratic. If Dr. Dixon can hold his own in Weber County he can and probably will win the election. The present indications are that he is holding his own. In the Second Congressional District, the effect on voters of the Stringfellow story is not immediately im-mediately evident.' If there was not much effect, and this seems to be the ease, Rep. William A. Dawson seems a good bet to keep the slight edge he had in the district before the Stringfellow story broke. |