Show tribune columnist analyzes politics in ill uintah basin says bourbons lead but G 0 11 hopes to ta win senate election by 0 N malmquist democrats of duchesne and uintah counties are convince convinced con vincel J they have a better than even chance to carry their counties in the november 8 election republican leaders are inclined to agree with them so are the split ticket voters whose loyalties and prejudices are about evenly divided between the two parties but the G 0 P workers who are showing distinct signs of recovering from the shocks of 1932 1931 and 1936 are not without hope they are pinning most of it on dr franklin S harris party candi candidate tate for the U S senate and some of them will be disappointed if he carry both of the basin counties by two or three hundred votes each have fighting chance the survey tends to confirm th continued on last pa pac e tribune columnist analyzes politics in uintah basin continued from page 1 prevailing public opinion that the democratic candidates are starting down tile the home stretch s with a comfortable lead but it also indicates political sentiment in the two counties is sufficiently fluk fluid to give the republicans and par dr harris harr is a fighting chance sample votes taken it vernal roosevelt myton and du chesnic show the same drift ol of 1936 democrats to the republica side which has been noted in most of the other southern and eastern utah counties in duchesne slightly more anore than 15 per cent of the sample voters voter s who supported president roosevelt roosevel t in 1936 expressed a preference foi harris over incumbent senator elbert D chomas approximately 7 per cent indicated a switch from representative abe murdoch Al the democratic candidate for re elec tion to congress to leroy B young his G 0 P opponent in addition to the movement which appears to be already anjer way another 15 per cent indicated tha they are undecided about sanio same picture the uintah sample showed shoved about the same picture on oil the democratic side with a slight counter movement of 1936 republicans public ans to thomas and murdock inasmuch as duchesne Du chesno w v a s roughly two to one democratic in in 1936 arri uintah three to two it appears the undecided vote vole will be the controlling factor on election day in ili other words if the s samples amples were representative of the entire counties or nearly so the party which can jell the fluid sentiment tent should win in this connect tio the democratic task appears less formidable than the one confronting the republicans the latter party parly must win vin them over while the democrats need only quell the wavering democrats in both tile the uintah basin counties look upon dr harlis is as their most moil menacing threat they feel no concern at all about murdock arti 1 while they profess to feel noie no ie about senator thomas occasional expressions of apprehension prel bension over what this man ha harris is going to do suggests a feeling of doubt ll 11 A large majority of the basins co college liege graduates attended B ig ham young young university of alich dr harris is president and republicans public ans are arc banking on these former students to wield a su substantial b influence upon friebus frien Js and families democrats concede that the H harris arris candidacy is receiving receiving considerable impetus from these thes e B Y U alumni and that it is a type of support which is difficult to counteract most observers contacted contact eJ el in duchesne county gave the democrats a substantial advantage on the county ticket republicans however feel they have a real chance to win some of the offices theil confidence is based partly internal differences the democratic party arising from the primary some same of the democrats are embittered over organization interference in the nominating contests and two of the defeated candidates are running as inde W oci jents ants one for the state legislature la ture and another for the t two oear year county commission term G 0 P leaders expect this in tra party rumpus to split the democratic vote sufficiently to let republicans into these two offices even though the cou county rity remains remain strongly democratic Deno cratic some observers expressed doub however that the independent candidates will materially help or hurt either of the major party tickets in uintah county the democrats are arc claiming all the local offices and the republicans will be satisfied if they can get a split both counties have a large number of voters working on V P A projects and republican icca i leaders d rs s are r assuming that a large majority of them will vote domo demo ratio cratic tribune |