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Show TRUTH. 10 JON a CUTLER. Hon. John C. Cutler, Republican nominee for governor, occupies a prominent and enviable position In the social and business life of Utah. To that position be has attained by sheer force of character, and persistent, Intelligent effort He has been identified with the material interests of Utah from early times, his residence hero dating from 1864. His training from childhood has been of a nature to fit him for tho work revolving upon him, in the Important positions he now occupies, and for the duties 'which await him as the next governor of this great state. His business ability and his broad, yet thorough, training In various lines of executive work, are both the cause of the success he has achieved, and a guarantee of eminent ability as the coming executive head of the state. Far from being a stranger to the public service, Mr. Cutler has spent the best years of his life in. it. For three consecutive terms, ho was clerk of the county of Salt Lake. In this position, his executive ability and exact methods of work won him high recognition. Mr. Cutler lias held other executive positions, requiring a high order of ability and thorough business of qualifications. As rendered the Commercial club, he great service to that Important organ ization, and, through it, to the state at large. For a time, Cutler was vice president for Utah of the congress. The same solid abiland sound judgment that have ren ity dered his services efficient in other capacities, made his work valuable in this advisory and executive position. In addition to his past experience in the public places named, he is now a United States jury commissioner. Through his service in these public capacities, Mr. Cutler has become thor oughly familiar with the requirements of public office, and in which deoffice the abilities public mands. And in all these positions his knowledge of tho affairs of Utah and her greatest needs has been increased, and he has been fitted especially for the work which his high office will require. There are few men whose past experience fits them so well for the duties of the governorship as John C. Cutler. Through his natural abilities and intelligent work, Mr. Cutler has become a capitalist. But his money circulates freely in this and surrounding states, through institutions which give em ployment to many laboring men. Mj. Cutler is president and manager of Cutler Bros. Co., manufacturers, a firm which gives employment to a number of men and women, and places thousands of dollars in circulation anuu ally. In this connection he Is a director in, and his firm is sales-agen- t for the Provo Woolen Mills, one of the rioneer manufacturing establishments of the west. In this capacity he comes in direct personal touch with an army of laborers and traveling men, who derive through him and those associated with him, support for themselvGs and their families. Indirectly, through his connection with other institutions, he assists in providing a market for a vast amount of the labor and of the agricultural and other products of Utah and surrounding states. lie has always been an enthusiastic and practical supporter of home manufacture. This interest has been shown in a most practical way by the promotion of various manufacturing industries. He has also shown It by his connection, as a director, with the Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing Society, which, conducts each year the great State fair. In no more striking way than through this annual fair, can the vice-preside- nt . Trans-Mississip- well-ground- ed pi )p of Lehi, the Utah County Light & Power Co. of American Fork, and the Sugar City Townsite Co. of Idaho. He s interested in the State Bank of Utah be First National Bank of Ogden Thatcher Bros. Banking Co. of Logan and the Provo Commercial & Savings Bank. This wide distribution of Interests would afford a guarantee, if one were needed, that as governor Mr. Cuter will not be sectional, but will give du3 consideration to all parts of the state, and to all classes of people. To summarize his qualities his achievements, his past public service his present prominence, and his personal character Is to proclaim him an Ideal candidate for the governorshin of Utah. JOSEPH HOWELL. Hon. Joseph Howell, our present representative in congress, who is a candidate for on the Republican ticket, is a native son of Utah, having been born at Brigham City on February 17, 1857. His parents were of .Welsh origin and came to Utah in early days, braving the hardships of frontier life. Josephs early training was such as the boys of his time received, that is to say, h5 was early brought into the stern struggle for existence. He attended the district school at Wellsville, Utah,, where his parents had taken up their residence and later was a student at he Deseret (now the Utah) University, he himself having earned the money necessary to keep' him there. At the early age of twenty-on- e years JOHN C. CUTLER. he assumed the additional responsibility of marriage, but in this, as in all his subsequent undertakings, he Industries and products of the state be the problem of the conflict between has been eminently successful.. advertised and fostered. capital and labor, by bringing about, Shortly after his marriage he was Although in all these various enter- in the case of his employes, a friendly at the head of the district with him. While conserv- placed prises Mr. Cutler must necessarily schools of Wellsville,' a position in stand as a capitalist, yet he is in real- ing his own rights, he jealously guards which he gave excellent satisfaction. ity more a friendly employer of labor, the rights of labor. After a few years spent in this manthan a capitalist. Grinding oppression Mr. Cutlers other interests are position of of his employes is entirely foreign to wide and varied, and they are not con- ner he advanced to the hi3 nature. He realizes to the full fined to one section of the state or to superintendent of the Wellsville in concern and that their interests are his, and ac- one line of enterprise. He is a direc- a then a very small financially-H- e condition rather shaky cordingly he deals with them in such tor of the Deseret National Bank, the remained at the head of the Insti-- ' a way as to gain their Deseret Savings Bank, the First Naand thus his interests become theirs. tional Bank of Murray, the Home Fire tution until his election todidCongress he conMr. Cutler has gone far toward solving insurance Company, the Peoples Co- - two years ago, and so well duct its affairs that it grew exceptionally strong, until today it does an immense valume of business and is known far and wTide. The same success that attended his efforts as supp erintendent of the Wellsville also followed in all that he put his hand to. He has established an excere-electi- on - -- Co-O- p, Co-O- reputation for integrity as well as for sound judgment and keen business llent perception. He served two terms as mayor of Wellsville, has, been several times elected to the legislature, first in territorial days, then as member of the constitutional convention, and still later as state senator, in. all of which positions ho added to his reputation. H acted for a time as a member of the. board of regents of the state university, and is today one of the controlling board of the Brigham Young college at Logan. ,Oi his election to congress he took at up his rdsidence in Logan and has the present time many material interests there. Asa membei. of congress, he has risen to the occasion ana fully justified the hopes and confidence of the people. He is highly esteemed by bis colleagues in the house of and is a member of thee important committees, viz., that on claims, mines and mining and Industrial arts and expositions. will mean that Utan His will continue to be well and conservatively represented in the lower house of congress. re-electi- : JOSEPH HOWELL. . . . 0 - Try the Shepard - Co. on collection- - |