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Show THE CITIZEN I favor the removal of the State Penitentiary 'to a site more suitable POLITICS OF UTAH: myself as a candidate for Governor on the Republican Ticket, a statement of my attitude on questions affecting the welfare of our fair state and the administration of its affairs would seem to be eminently proper. First: I hold that honesty in public office is one of the prime essentials for good government. He who debauches public life by misappropriation of funds, or by actual bribery, or by the corrupt use of his office by entering into collusion, he rewards the vicious. Second: I maintain it is incumbent upon every citizen to take an active CITIZENS the Mercur school board. He was also at one time the Democratic nominee for member of the Legislature from Tooele County, and although going down to defeat with the rest of the ticket he enjoyed the distinction of receiving all the votes in Mercur but thirteen. During the time he was operating at than its' present location I favor the maintenance of the Agricultural College at Logan on a ba-- : KELLY PLEDGES HIMSELF TO BUSINESS POLICY r 9 sis comparable to the significance of agriculture as one of the 'basic in- -, dustries of Utah. I favor a progressive attitude to- ward our educational problems and toward the teachinjg profession - Appreciating the importance' of the Pacific Coast as a great customer of our raw products in. the fields of the extractive industries and agriculture, I pledge my energies to the development of a policy of cordial with the coast states. I favor a progressive policy of road construction throughout the state. I favor a tax policy that will make available funds sufficient for the proper conduct of progressive government; a policy that will make a fairer distribution of the tax burden than now characterizes it. I favor a spirit of unity and among all the towns and citizens in the state. A rich state with a citizenry aroused to action vigorous, intelligent action that gets into concrete and steel that establishes factories; action that brings about' constructive programs in farming and stockraising. Then,' indeed, we will come into our own. and Utah will stand out as a great empire of wealth and abundance with a happy. contented, citizenship. -- Mercur Mr. Dem was associated with George Moore, inventor of vacuum slime filtration, and together they this process which subsequently revolutionized the cyanide de-xelop- ed In the mines at Mercur were exhausted and shut down. During the ensuing few years Mr. Dem was ac1913, tively engaged in mining and metallurgical operations in the Park City and Tintic districts. In 1914, Mr. Dem was elected on the fusion ticket of the Democrats and Progressives to the Utah State Senate. He - was on the Democratic ticket in 1918; hence he served eight years as a member of the State Senate. During his service in the Senate Mr. Dem was the author re-elect- ion well-inform- ed , DERN HAS NO OPPOSITION ON DEMOCRTIC TICKET. interest in governmental affairs. In the event of my successful nomination and election, I beg to submit in 'brief the following as part of a program which strikes me as being fundamentally essential at this time: I pledge myself to thoroughly familiarize myself with the operations of the various State Departments and Boards with a view of effecting the most efficient and economical functioning of the affairs of the state government, and the bringing about of the variof a better ous Departmental activities, eliminating wherever possible the duplication ion of work. I submit that due to ness the condition of the State Mental Hospital' is appalling. Not only is the over-crowde- CF.J . d- but institution greatly it is almost impossible to make any proper segregation of the patients. - over-crowde- d, EXPERT KODAK FINISHING 144 So. Main SHIPLERS lEORGE H. DERN, Governor of Utah,-waborn September 8, 1872, on a farm in Dodge County,1 Nebraska. He was educated in the pub- lie schools' there and entered the University of Nebraska in 1893. He was an excellent- - student,- - particularly in history and English, and thought seriously for a time of becoming a professor of History. He took a keen and active interest in athletics, and was captain of tHe Nebraska football team when it won the championship of the Missouri Valley Conference in 1894. He came1 to Salt Lake City thirty-foyears ago and began work as bookkeeper and paymaster for the Mercur Gold 'Mining and Milling Company, which operated a large gold mine at Mercur. He was promoted from time to time to more responsible positions until he became general manager of that company, and also of its successor, the Consolidated Mercur Gold Mines Company. In 1904, in addition to the post of general ' manager he assumed the position of general superintendent of mines and mills, and removed to Mercur so as to have direct personal charge of the operations,1 in which from 400 to 600 men were employed. The organization which he built up was recognized among mining men as one of the most efficient in the United States. He lived at Mercur for five years, during which period two of his five children were born. During this time he held his first ' public office, serving as f member of ; s -- ur -- process of extracting gold and silver fromores. Shortly before. Mercur was closed became associated with Theodore P. Holt and Neils C. Christensen development of the roasting process, and with Mr. he. invented and patHolt-Deented the roaster, in which the process is carried out. This ore roaster is now extensively used in- the United States, Mexico and South America. down Mr: .Deni in-th- e Holt-.Christens- en m Holt-Christens- en - of the Workmens Compensation Act, the Mineral Land Leasing Act, the State Road Designation Act, the Corrupt Practices Act, the Absent Voters Act, and other measures of a progressive and constructive character. During the War he served as a member of the State of Utah Council of Defense, and was chairman of its Committee on War Minerals, and served also as a member of the Advisory Board to the State Fuel American Smelting & Refining Company Lake Salt City, Utah, Purchasers of gold, silver, lead and copper ores and smelter products. Ore PurchasGeoing Department, Seventh Floor McCornick Building. Mining and logical Department, Sixth Floor McCornick Building. Consign all ore shipments to American Smelting & Relining Company Ship lead ores to Murray Plant, Murray, Utah. Ship copper and siliceous ores to Garfield Plant, Garfield, Utah. , Address correspondence as follows: 700 McCornick lSlag. to hand and samples, shipments Regarding Prospecting and Development, to Sixth Floor McCornick Bldg |