Show WESLEY ELEY KING TELLS OF PREPAREDNESS i CONVENTION S Sa Salt lt Lake Wins Attention by Its Its Claims for Brade Br- Br gade ade Post S' S Cat Wesley King chairman i o ot of the theil i I il training camp committee r returned returned re re- tU turned Ii Iid d yesterday from St. St Louis wh where re lie he attended a national preparedness preparedness edness convention of ot mayors as the the perso personal al representative of Mayor W. W Mont Ferry Enthusiastic ov over r the a attention Salt Lake Is s commanding as as' the result of ot the campaign l lor fora r. r a brigade post and the establishment of a citizens' citizens military training camp Captain King is more than ever determined determined de de- de to see these plans com com- saluted Salt Lake Lake when they found out what we are doing said Captain King Mayor James Purroy Mitchel of New v York City and Col Cornelius Vanderbilt both declared their willingness willingness' to come to Salt Lake during the summer at some convenient date to address the members member's mem memo bers bets of the training camp They were much interested Jn In n our preparedness plans Not Noted d Men Speak When the roll of at the conference was called on March 2 Captain King found that he was from the farthest West He thereupon undertook when called upon to speak for the West to explain explain ex ex- ex- ex plain lain in detail the contentions of Salt Lake as to why plants and army supply depots should be built here I Robert Bacon former secretary of war and ambassador to France Colonel Colonel Colo Colo- nel Vanderbilt Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago and many other prominent men of the East talked before before before be be- fore the convention on the subject of preparedness A resolution Indorsing the construction construction construction con con- of a navy that would make the United States the first power of the world on the sea and seconding the general recommendations recommendations' of the tha general staff of the army and general navy board was passed unanimously Here Mr King was active in baving having hay hav hayIng ing a clause Inserted In this r resolution tion providing that all plants be bo removed from the coasts and borders borders bor bor- ders to the interior for the sake of protection Every representative at the convention highly favored red Salt Lake as the the site site for a munitions plant Talk of Roosevelt The convention went on record absolutely absolutely ab ab- ab said Captain King as favoring favoring fa fa- fa Salt Lake as asa a site for the distribution distribution dis dis- of troops munitions munitions' and supplies As the convention was called at the instigation of ot certain vm members of ot congress desiring to obtain obtain ob ob- tain a general Impression of the feelIng feel- feel feeling in Ing of ot the people on the preparedness prepared prepared- ness question every possible subject of this nature was discussed The entire plan and all recommendations I of the general board of ot the army and and navy were Indorsed As for politics Theodore Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt Is the most talked of at man for forthe forthe forthe the presidency The general consensus consensus consensus sus of opinion is that Roosevelt is the one and only man to head the Republican Republican Republican Re Re- publican ticket and thus swing the Progressive vote back into the ranks |