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After broiling that tough old rooster, Governor J. Bracken Lee. in Utah's Republican gubernatorial primary, G.O.P. Nominee George Clyde seemed to have a tender pigeon in Democratic Candidate Lorenzo Clark Romney. But last week Bracken Lee, who still has a dedicated personal following, announced his candidacy as a write-in independent, a move sure to cut into Clyde's Republican vote next month. Result of the Republican split: Democrat Romney was transformed from dead pigeon into an ominous Utah sea gull...
...refer to Utah as "nominally Republican" [Sept. 24]; it should be observed that Bracken Lee was the first Republican governor in 24 years, and the only Republican state official to be elected to office in Utah in the 1948 elections. TIME and Kingmaker Watkins to the contrary, Governor Lee has led the resurgency of the Republican Party in Utah. His defeat at the hands of switchover voters spells trouble for the Republicans come November...
Seeking the G.O.P. nomination for an unprecedented third term as governor, Utah's bumptious J. Bracken Lee was unexpectedly-and unceremoniously-trounced in last week's bitter Republican primary. So weary were Utah's Republicans of Lee that they chose instead-by a vote of 62,294 to 54,282-a newcomer to politics, egg-bald George Dewey Clyde, 58, whose only political recommendation was that, as commissioner of the Utah Water and Power Board, he campaigned hard and successfully for passage of the popular Upper Colorado River bill (TIME, Feb. 12 et ante...
...Utah, windmill-tilting Republican Governor J. Bracken Lee, 57, who has refused to pay his 1955 federal income tax because "the Constitution says nothing about spending tax dollars in foreign lands," picked the eve of income-tax day to announce his candidacy for a third term. Almost certain to be aligned against him are such powerful forces as educational groups, angered by the Lee economy ax, and Republican Party regulars, resentful of his attacks on the Eisenhower Administration. Despite such opposition, and a widely quoted Leeism ("No honest man would want more than one term as governor"), he goes into...
...Poujadists hope to enlist the support of the student League for Reaction, and the student Monarchists, and the student Apathy League to their cause, under the leadership of James Cronin, local merchant, and to move into the national political arena behind Governor J. Bracken Lee of Utah when their mission here is accomplished...