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Show FARMERS SWING BEHIND G. 0. P. r -j . . -I ; . - -x ."- T . ;; r .- - 'v.- r ' - r- " ' f f':- i liii M JiiiiihMrilii ill irm.it rtilWi fi MflinilJ Dr. Franklin S. Harris With the November 8 election only two weeks away a definite trend toward Republicanism la noticable throughout Utah, accord ing to a survey just completed by leading G. O. P. campaign speakers. speak-ers. Dr. Franklin S. Harris, Republican Republi-can nominee for the United States senate and contestant for the seat of Senator Elbert D. Thomas, said the "Utah farmer is convinced the administration's' reciprocal trade treaties are inimical to his inter-! ests." "Everywhere in the state I found livestock men and dirt farmers blaming the present agricultural program for their plight, as Indicated Indi-cated by the ruinously low prices, in which the Utah farmer finds himself", he said. "If I am elected my major objective will be to preserve pre-serve the American market for the American farmer." Dr. Harris explained the sheepmen sheep-men were mainly dissatisfied because be-cause the price of wool during the 1933-37 period was 21.2 percent below be-low the average price for the 1921-1932 1921-1932 period of Republican supremacy. suprem-acy. ) LeRoy B. Young, Republican candidate can-didate for the seat of Abe Murdock, also pledged his efforts to stabilize the agricultural market. "If I am elected I will wage an aggressive fight to see that com-j com-j pulsory, restrictive and coercive features of the farm bill are repealed re-pealed and that the reciprocal trade treaty powers are taken away from the executive branch of the government govern-ment and returned to the people's representatives where they belong," he asserted. Dean F. Brayton, candidate for J. Will Robinson's congressional seat, also blames the plight of the farmer to the administration's farm legislation. "Our opponents are so disheartened disheart-ened by the antagonism to the collapse col-lapse of the farm legislation they have sent to Washington to have one of the leading bureaucratic theorists come here to defend the program", Mr. Brayton said. "And what does he do but assert that aid is coming if we can get international interna-tional cooperation. It doesn't take an expert to know that the whole New Deal farm program has collapsed. col-lapsed. What we aim for the farmer is the cost of production plus a profit." ' I Chief Justice William H. Folland, 1 seeking to retain his seat in the state supreme court, has advocated generally a non-partisan judiciary, in the state and a solidification of constitutional government. All four candidates returned from a state wide tour optimistic that I the chances of putting Utah In the Republican column were brighter today than any time in the past eight years. |