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Show "His Excellency, The Governor" I tf z TAH'S new governor is the most pic-1 pic-1 H turesque personage in the state. In pri-mr pri-mr "J yate life he was a rare type of citizen, "' and now that he has become the chief executive of a great commonwealth the character-study character-study is doubly interesting. Simon Bamberger (hereafter we shall use the formal address) is a man of many parts. He his home. It would require a fair-sized volume to chronicle in detail his various enterprises during dur-ing the years that followed. The mining industry, then in its infancy, attracted his attention for a time and he was successful in the main in his mining undertakings. Unlike his fellow Demo crat, "Uncle Jesse" Knight, the exact location of the hidden wealth was never revealed to him in a dream, and so he was compelled to take "miner's "min-er's luck" and run the customary risks and chances that haunted the trail of the early prospectors. pros-pectors. But it developed that mining 'as to bo simply a side issue with him. The govt ior encountered encounter-ed his chief success In the development of transportation trans-portation within the state. He was connected with the construction of one of Utah's first rail roads and his supreme achievement was the ' building of the electric line connecting Salt Lake and Ogden. This road is conceded to be one of the finest of its kind in the country and stands as a fitting monument to the constructive genius of its organizer and operator. His hobby for years has been the development of interurban transportation within the state, and he has been is, nrst 01 an, a man ut the plain people. He pos- Jkk. sesses the rarest of all Hki HHfe. gifts the faculty of liu- toHSki mmWwS man understanding. His L Hs ISflh heart is as big as all out HwlV HftfiHt doors and beats in full sym- GSrl. Kl-V pathy with the cause of the Kg2 BmtSmwF common people. He tells us HP-PL that he will be the people's gover- , JK&L, ffi nor there is every IHHfiSwIyk. believe he intends to keep his word. flBHn9HHHk This the HHHjHHiL is a man lHHHHAtSUHk The governor is a self-made man. The chron- IHfflRIL icle his experiences reads romance. HHA is the story the poor boy HojBIHIB origin carving out his own and eventually GHBHffflHHL finding his way to high estate. Of Jewish descent, BHjjljfijjfflHHBR the second of a family of six children, he was mmmmWmW$w&S$$B3mBmmmm horn in the fine old city of Darmstadt, Germany. ' AmmmmmWi8m&mlmWHlmmm While a boy he succeeded' in saving enough HfflnHuHfflHlB money to purchase a to America. It was HhIRHHHH in the great American metropolis found HHHHHflHlA his The story goes HhBIHIHII was to up pins in a alley, IHBHIHI we are altogether sure on At KKHBHKmmmmmm he only managed to himself KEKin was able to aside sufficient means IHHIIhIHB the family to the JHHHHr Sometime later the future governor moved HBKmmmE & Indiana and engaged in the mercantile business. HHBfl The family followed and there they made HhHHUI I home. But the young man, always fHHnHMRHHH for new opportunities, migrated to Missouri in H CjIIBHBhIB search of fortune and while in that state his EfamMMmmmMmml naturalization papers were honored and he be- 'jB&JEiiitf iHHB came a full-fledged citizen of the United States. In HmHW HH all probability, he accepted his political faith at jHHy B the same time for he is a man of fixed opinions HH H has been a life-long Democrat. Hl jl His stay in Missouri was not long. Eventual- H B ' ly he moved to Wyoming and became manager of H H an advance supply depot for the company having JH H under construction the old Union Pacific railroad. Hf H He continued in this capacity until the rails of Bl H the transcontinental system were joined at Prom- JmWMmmmmrx'mUmm ontory Point in 18G9. Then he came to Utah to fmmmWmmmm '"'Bv, stay. mmmmmfMrnWaB HHpBitei Governor Bamberger's career in the state of ixHESHBMwBEHlFi I his adoption covers a period of forty-eight years. iHHBMPBIHvlEiiy He first settled at Ogden and engaged in the ho- ifBjHHH , 'BMSotI tel business for a time. He moved subsequently aBttBiiaLfeifBy to Salt Lake City and this place has since been HBRHpW9mKMiHRiK Monroe Photo) GOVERNOR BAMBERGER a guiding spirit in the completion of Utah's other two electric lines which connect with the Bamberger Bam-berger line at both ends and now enable it to extend ex-tend its service to southern Idaho on the north and to central Utah on the south. In connection with his railroad and metal mining min-ing activities, the present governor has been successful suc-cessful in developing extensive coal mining properties prop-erties and in organizing one of the most substantial sub-stantial retail coal companies of the state. The activities mentioned, together with various other enterprises in which he is interested, make him one of the big payroll builders of the state. Although his chief claim to distinction prior v m to his elevation to the.governship was his prom- H inence as a man of affairs,' hehas found time lb H serve the people at times "in a public capacity. H He was a member of the state senate in the H 1903 and 1905 sessions and has served on the Salt H Lake City school board. But aside from these of-' iH flcial positions he distinguished himself chiefly as iH a private citizen, deeply concerned in all matters ,H affecting the public welfare and freely lending IH his support to the moral uplift of the commun- IH ity. He is intensely public spirited; he is a phil- H anthropist of substantial proportions and as such H has endeared himself in hundreds of Utah homes. H To illustrate Citizen Bamberger's loyalty to H his state we venture to recall an incident that H has never been fully confirmed. A year or more H ago he was prominently mentipned as a likely IH candidate for the United States senate. Prac- H tical politicians assumed that he could have the H nomination for the asking. At that particular H time he was on an extended trip for his health in H the West Indies. Then one day like a flash out of IH a clear sky came a cablegram from Cuba saying IH that under no consideration would ho be a candi- H date for the senate. No satisfactory explanation iH for this action has ever been offered, and in Its H absence the belief came to be generally accepted H that having seen with his own eyes the condl- H tions surrounding the production of sugar on the H islands, he was fearful of the results that would IH follow were the industries at home placed in open . H competition with the foreign producers; that H he was certain that his party would remove the M duty om sugar in accordance with its pledge; and H that rather than to be compelled to choose (in H the event of his election) between repudiating a IH party policy on one hand and voting to paralyze IH one of the chief industries of his state on the IH other, he preferred to surrender his ambition and H remain a private citizen. He could neither be- H tray his party nor his state. Hence his decision. H The governor's inaugural was typical of the H man himself. It was brief and went straight to IH the point. He has promised the people, a busi- ness-like administration of the state's affairs. We iH doubt that he will be able to accomplish all of IH the proposed undertakings but it will be interest- IH ing to note the development of his policies, and H in the meanwhile he should be accorded credit IH for all good intentions. IH His splendid tribute to the administration of H his predecessor, former Governor Spry, was a IH manifestation of his characteristic generosity, and IH of his disposition to rise above petty politics and IH bestow honor where honor is due. It was1 a jH stirring endorsement of a gieat constructive rec- ord upon which he has pledged himself and the jlH party to make a substantial improvement. He -is IH playing for high stakes and the element of pol- JH itical risk is great. But if he wins, the glory is jIH bound to bo commensurate with the achievement. H The governor's friends predict for him a sue- H cessful administration. The business of being the iH "people's governor" is a big job, but the new ex- kH ecutive has been doing big things all his life. He jH is blessed with an abundant supply of "horse H sense," and has a philosophical turn of mind that IH should get him over many a patch of thin ice. He iH will make mistakes, of course, but they will come H from honest effort. His chief difficulty will be to H hold his political associates in check. This will iH call for every ounce of leadership that he pos- H sesses. But he assures us, nevertheless, that he H "will be the governor," and we are inclined to f)M think that he will. jfl Governor Bamberger, at the outset of his ad- ffl ministration, enjoys the good will and carries IH with him the best wishes of every good citizen in the state. 'mm r 'I Jrfl ikH |