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Show WIS CAMPAIGN FOR GOVERNORSHIP OGDEN MAN'S CANDIDACY FOR REPUBLICAN PLACE IS STRONGLY URGED. Weber County Republicans Give Unanimous Endorsement and Ask the State'a Approval. Active campaigning has been statt-' statt-' ed by friends of W. H. Wattis of Og-, Og-, den, candidate for the Republican nom-. nom-. nation for governor, and duriug the past week he has become the leader in that contest which win be concluded when the state convention makes its selection in Salt Lake on Thursday, August i!G. Although the candidacy of Mr. Wattis Wat-tis was strongly urged at the time of the Republican national delegate convention con-vention in Price, several months ago, active work toward his nomination was not started until the past week. Even without that effort, however, the Wattis campaign gained an impetus throughout the state which assured strong support and now his supporters support-ers say there is no doubt of his selection. se-lection. Weber county Republicans, through the Weber county committee, have given unanimous endorsement to Mr. vVattis for nomination as governor, having passed the following resolution at a meeting held on Saturday, July 31: "The Republican county committee "f Weber county wishes to call the attention of the members of the party in this county and state to the facti that Utah is confronted viti financial, j industrial and political problems of. the gravest character. We feel that for the office of governor during the coming four years will be required a man of the highest type of citizenship, f proved integrity and patriotism,; and one possessing business expert-1 ence and administrative capacity ol ! t lie best order. j "We assert that Weber county has i such a man in the person of William II. Wattis. We commend him to the favorable consideration of the Republican Repub-lican state convention and urge the Republicans of this county to choose delegates who will work untiringly, making use of every honorable politi-1 cal expedient to bring about his uom-! ination." j Mr. Wattis' supporters offers a candidate can-didate who, by reason of his exceptional exception-al executive ability, strong personal-1 ity and wide business experience, will j dve Utah and the state's affairs a real business administration. j Mr. Wattis is a sterling American. genial in his presence and firm in character. He wifl so arrange his personal per-sonal affairs as to give his undivided attention to the business of the state. Mr. Wattis Is native born son of Weber county, a serf-made man In the, iniest sense. He bus resideil in Utah throughout his HI and lias studied Utah's economical needs. He has developed de-veloped in Utah and be has materially ; assisted in developing Ctah. i Mr. Wattis' record as a builder of, roads, railroads, irrigation systems! and manufacturing industries shows that he is a man who can grasp the big problems of slate affairs and pat : h 1 1 11 on a sound financial basis. His experience as agriculturalist and stock raiser is another factor that is suggested sug-gested as important, for Mr. Wattla was born "in Uintah, a fanning ton inuniiy of Weber wounty, spent the first years of Ids life there, engaged In fanning undertakings during various va-rious years of bis life and has become as heait of the Utah Construction company, the director of great farming farm-ing undertakings in the west. He understands the problems of the ir-1 clcntor. the drv farmer and the live stock raiser for these are all prob-1 lems that have arisen with him and which he has successfully solved. Similarly Sim-ilarly Mr. Wattis has solved the labot ipiestion and there has not bees 1 strike on any of the great WattlJ enterprises. Including railroad building, build-ing, reservoir or Irrigation system construction, con-struction, coal mining, industrial construction con-struction or other work. As governmental finance and administration, ad-ministration, building of the state's roads and irrigaJiou systems on a sound economy basis and the solution solu-tion of labor problems will be t be chief questions affecting Utah's tax- i payers during the next few years, the men who know W. H. Wattis best declare there will bo no mistake If he is selected as the Kcpiilrficnn noml nee and elected by the voters at th 'ovuuiber election. |
