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Show ECCLES AfiflOUNCES CANDIDACY ' ' ' i : - I ' 'rT' - "vi- U I ; ', " ' U - ' ' i - ' - j r -C-r J f - . - I Marriner S. Eccles has announced an-nounced his candidacy for United Unit-ed States Senator on the Republican Re-publican ticket. Mr. Eccles stated that he has been a lifelong life-long Republican, that his father was a Republican before him and that his whole family have been Republicans. In 1934 the President of the United States called him to go to Washington, and he responded as any loyal American would in a crisis regardless re-gardless of his political faith. Mr. Eccles said, "During my. seventeen years in Washington I have been a part of bringing bring-ing prosperity out of depression and chaos, and have advocated many policies that have been tried and found to be successful. success-ful. I now feel that I can render ren-der invaluable service to my country by serving in the Senate Sen-ate of the United States to help General Eisenhower in his . crusade to save our form of government and bring peace to the world." In making his announcement, Mr. Eccles stated he had been in serious disagreement with the Truman administration on many fronts, particularly because of i its failure to control inflation and protect the purchasing power pow-er of the dollar. He has also been critical of the government's foreign policy which lost the peace after this nation had spent hundreds of billions of dollars and sacrificed its men and irreplacable materials to I win the war. Mr. Eccles feels tvery strongly that "We can no longer sacrifice the lives of our ; youth on foreign battlefields by foreign policy, bungling; Mr. Eccles asserted, "We must maintain a defense and foreign aid program and a foreign policy that will prevent war while at the same time preserving preserv-ing economic stability and strength at home. To accomplish accom-plish this we must recognize our limitations both in manpower man-power and materials, and utilize util-ize them in the most effective manner. We must face up to the unpleasant mistakes we have made in foreign policy and deal with them promptly and realistically. We must likewise like-wise face up to our problems on the domestic front, which means among other things, limiting our federal expenditures expendi-tures to the amount we are willing to pay for currently, with a view to reducing our tax burden at the earliest possible pos-sible time. We must also eliminate elimi-nate wherever possible all direct controls." He stated that if nominated and elected he would support a program of maximum employment employ-ment and production within the framework of a stable economy, thus avoiding the twin evils of ruinous inflation or deflation. He pointed out that if our system . of democracy is to survive it must represent the interest of all the people and must resist the unjust demands of minority pressure groups no matter what their complexion or origin. Mr. Eccles is a native son of Utah. Except for the years spent in government service in Washington, D. C, his business and civic activities have centered in this state, which has been the home of the Eccles family ever since his father came to Utah with his parents in 18G3 as converts to the L. D. S. Church. Mr. Eccles served a mission for the Church in Scotland, Scot-land, and attended the Brigham Young College in LogStS. He received an honorary LLD degree de-gree from the University of Utah in 1943. |