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51st Year Medford United Preij l-ull Leased Wire Price 10c .Tribune United Press Pull Leased Wire Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1956 Pages 1-6 Eight Minor Party Candidates To Compete With Eisenhower and Stevenson for Votes Washington (U.R) Eight. Labor party's ticket entered in minor party candidates will com- i2 Itates. whiIe FarreI, Dobbs, Pe,.f Pr'dcnt Eisenhower 49j of Minneapolis, tops the So- and Adlai E. Stevenson for votes cialist Workers art ticket in on election day Their platforms range from abolition of the federal income tax to a return of prohibition to Socialism. T. Coleman Andrews, who used to collect taxes as Mr. Ei senhower's commissioner of in ternal revenue, is likely to cor ner the most votes among the independents. The tall and handsome 57-year-old resident of Richmond, Va., heads the newly-formed con servative states' rights or Con stitution party. He is on the bal lot in 11 states and has the sup port of loosely knit splinter groups in 14 others. His running mate is former Rep. Thomas W. Wcrdcl (R-Calif ). Advocates Tax Repeal Andrews advocates repeal of the federal income tax as ,a "thoroughly un-American" de vice pulled "right out of the Communists' Manifesto." He also wants to abolish the draft, re duce federal spending by at least S2S billion a year and leave school segregation strictly up to the states. Andrews, strongest of the minor party candidates in the field, hopes to make a fight of it for Virginia's- 12 electoral votes. Some of his most opti mistic backers tell of the possi bility of throwing the election into the House of Representa tives by preventing either Mr. Eisenhower or Stevenson from getting a majority of electoral votes. Definite. Threat At least, the presence of An drews and other independents in the field, could tip the balance in closely-contested states by tak ing away votes that otherwise would go to Stevenson and or Mr. Eisenhower. 'Andrews' name is on the bal lot in Arkansas, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Tennes see, Texas, Virginia and Wiscon in. In addition, a slate of inde pendent electors organized in Alabama as segregationists is ex pected to support "Andrews and his supporters in Georgia are campaigning for write-in votes. Sen. Harry E. Byrd (D-Va.), a conservative in his own right, has been entered without his consent as the candidate for a free wheeling states' rights group in Kentucky. Sen. William E. Jenner (R-Ind.). who was named as Byrd's running mate, has asked Kentuckians not to vote for the ticket. Tbi Prohibition party' is head ed this year by Dr. Enoch A. Holtwick, a 73-year-old retired college professor from Green ville, III. It is on the ballot in nine states and expects a smat tering of "write-in" votes in others. It polled 72.769 votes four years ago. mostly in the Midwest and California. Once Was Enough Holtwick, who has tasted alco hol once in his life when he was 10 also is campaigning on an anti-narcotics and anti-com-mercialized vice platform. "rtie Prohibitionists are on the ballot in California. Delaware, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Mas sachusetts, Michigan, New Jer sey, and New Mexico. There are three candidates with Socialist leanings in the field. Darlington Hoopes, the 60-year-old Reading, Pa., lawyer, who replaced Norman Thomas In the 1952 race, is entered in four states and hopes to top his 19.685 vote total of four years ago. Eric Hass. 51-ycar-old New Yorker, heads the Socialist four. All three Socialist candidates are on the Wisconsin ballot. Hoopes and Hass are listed in Colorado and Iowa; and Hass and Dobbs in Minnesota, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Hoopes car ries the Socialist standard alone in Delaware while Hass is the onlv entry in Illinois. Indiana. Kentucky, Massachusetts, New Mexico and Washington. Henry B. Krejewski, 44, a Se caucus, N. J., tavern owner and one-time pig farmer. Is a repeat presidential candidate in New Jersey. He changed the name of his party from "The Poor Man's Party" to "American Third Party" on learning in 1952 that voters don't like to be called poor even if they aren't rich. Krejewski is offering New Jer sey voters the only woman can didate for vice president Mrs. Annie Marie Yezo, 37, a North Bergan housewife. Fred C. Proehl, a 76-year-old head of the Greenback party, is not entered on any ballot but hopes for write-ins. He does most of his politicking over the crack er barrel at his country store in Meadowdale Crossroads, Wash. Proehl and his Greenbacks favor abolishing the federal reserve bank system and issuing govern ment notes to meet its bills. !' 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