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Show Bourbons Hold Campaign Fete State Candidates Speak at Initial Meeting in Mt. Pleasant The first Democratic rally of the campaign here was held at the Elite theater Thursday night, when the following candidates spoke: Henry H. Blood, Democratic Democrat-ic candidate for governor; Abe Murdock, candidate for congress from the first congressional district; dis-trict; Joseph Chez, candidate for attorney general; and C. H. Skid-more, Skid-more, candidate for superintendent superinten-dent of public instruction. The house was filled to capacity. Special musical numbers were by Ephraim talent. Mrs. Lola Clyde Pritchett, associate as-sociate county chairman, was in charge. Mr. Blood refuted statements made against him by his opponents oppon-ents and stated emphatically that the road commission is not a political po-litical machine. He said he would like, if elected, to run the state government like a private institution institu-tion in all Its interests and functions, func-tions, in line with constructive government, but the conduct of a state government is a gigantic task at all times. Jvlr. Blood referred to present economic conditions as affecting the unemployment affecting the state, and. the steps taken to relieve re-lieve the situation through unemployment unem-ployment relief projects, referring to local projects, discussing the measures taken to spread the gasoline gas-oline tax funds for the people of the state in general without localizing lo-calizing any one community in its benefits. General political topics of nation and state were dwelt upon by the other candidates, with the exception excep-tion of Mr. Skidmore, who spoke on the general educational system sys-tem of the state, without reference to present educational officials. A meeting was held by the Democratic, women in the afternoon after-noon at the City Hall where Mr. Skidmore was the principal speaker, speak-er, discussing the educational issues is-sues and expressing his opinion that public instruction should no! be a political issue. County chairman James Willardson Willard-son of Ephraim spoke briefly. |