Show IN I SYMPATHY WITH WESTERN PEOPLE New Commissioner Land Office Of-fice Knows West HE UNDERSTANDS ITS NEEDS I Arid Regions Will Profit Big By His Appointment Ho is Thoroughly Conversant With Land Questions Arising in Utah and Wyoming t TRIBUNE BUREAU 1 OOG Fourteenth street I Washington D C Jan 7 J The rcslgiuUIoii of Blngcr Hermann made a way for the promotion of a Wyoming Wyo-ming man No man understands the manifold man-ifold needs of the Rocky mountain States better than does exGov Richards To that extent the midWest will profit by tho appointment of the cxGovcrnor to the oflice of Commissioner of the General Gen-eral Ljmd office lie Is particularly = conversant i con-versant with tho Land office questions arising In Utah Idaho Montana utl t Wyoming and Is In closer sympathy with the people of those States than any innu since Judge Lewis A Oroff who vas appointed ap-pointed from Nebraska WESTERN MEN ELATED Friends of Ulnger Harmann Intimate that the promotion of Gov Richards Is but a temporary makeshift which cannot I last longer than the next Republican national na-tional comen tlon that his tenure will not last that long should he persist adhering 4 adher-ing to the policy for which Blngor Hermann Her-mann contended on subjects of paramount Importance to the Administration Tills however may be Idle gossip Western Congressmen are elated over the accession acces-sion of Gov Richards whose ability ties long been recognized by them I |