Show MCLAIN WANTS ANTS TO BE DELEGATE TO CHICAGO Would Carry Message to Taft an Old Schoolmate That I Utah Is For Him IJohn I- I John C C. president of the tue Burton Coal an and Lumber company n Is among the iho first in Utah Ulah to make a bid for tor nomination to represent the tho statu state at the national Republican convention when lie lie- hopes ho will ill be ono one of the themen themen men Tien who Mho will wilt carry the news s to his old schoolmate W. W IL Taft TafU that the latter alter Is the choice of ot his party part In Utah for tor Pre President of the United States Mr Ir McClain an and Mr Taft arc nrc alike Ir If n that the they both graduated with special cial honors from Woodward ard Ohio high school In the carl early seventies se Mr was Masa a year ahead of Mr who Is Is however three or four years younger ouner than thun tho Salt Lake lumI lum- lum her Ler jer merchant Nevertheless Mr Ill Tafts Taft Tart I Is s remembered as a a. youth of exceptionally large frame thought though though it was Mas not as well Mell filled out as It Is noM now now- and also of or exceptional Intelligence IIo Ho was as a youth Mho ho ho ha had 1 e cr every opportunity said Mr McClain and an hi he 10 took tool advantage antage of or them Ulem On leaving leav- leav ing ng the High school he continued his college course I went into business lie has kept going higher over ever since and ind will wm I believe go JO still higher When I was homo home recently I visited Miss Walter Valler of or College Hill who has Las hasa Lasa a Q picture of or the tile secretary r of war with witha a 0 letter acknowledging the debt lie le owes his old Instructress In English 1 literature My 1 cousin Mrs James R. R Ma Maxwell was another of the teachers iri In tho the school when M tho the future states stales man and I 1 studied Latin In tho the same classes L |