Show INDORSE HAM fOND FOR RUNNING MATE i County Republican Committee Favors Mining Man for L Vice President i WAS SENTENCED TO DEATH Echo of Transvaal Tr Trouble uble t Heard III in Recommendation 4 S S of Californian I If Ir the thc Utah lIel delegation lallon at the Iho Chicago Chi Chi- cago 0 convention con hn has Il Its way a man i. i who was vas once onci sentenced to death will wll Ki- Ki ho 10 nominated for vice president nt on the Republican ticket ct I t At a of or tho the Salt Lake county coun coun- I I t ty Republican committee yesterday r af nC t. t John Hays Hammond the i f foremost cn of ot modern tithes times j was indorsed and County Count Chairman it e was Instructed el to Inform tiit Utah delegation of or tho the notion and anti to toI I f A urge o the support of ot Mr Ir Hammond The action o of the tho committee follows follow c. c the tho announcement that at nt a mt meeting of or the national delegates Saturday Mr r Hammonds Hammond's name waft waI mentioned and andy i y he was waR given Ien Instant support Well ell l Known In West t J John hn Hays s Hammond is 18 well known in Salt J and Utah and throughout through through- I. I out the Wit for or that matter Ho wa was f born horn in California and ancl has spent much of or his time lime among the mines of or tho the I 4 West cEIL Ho lie knows the mines of or the tho I Western I tern states like e- e ea a book He lIe ha has formed ninny many social and hU business acquaintances ac ac- ac- ac j In Ill Salt Rait Lake ls Is n a member of or tho the University club here her and ami has hns a great many friends a who ho will add their t 10 to that of or the tho county committee and anil the lie Ilah delegation atlon That Mr 11 Hammond was once sentenced sen son to death is s an incident that has hashe he been n almost t forgotten h by tho the general l public In the thc rush rUh of ot events in the thelast last t ten Ion years I. I lie He liens ns ono one or of tho I lout four leaders c r in the Hie 11 reform 0 movement mc t in fn the Transvaal In C G. after aCter theL tho the L Jameson on raid with which he was not tr In sympathy At t that time ho he was arrested and sentenced to In death but hut butk k 1 hl Ills his F enerico o was commuted to In 1 15 years years' Imprisonment awl 1111 later lie was wait liberated upon payment p of ot a ft fine of 1 in Circlet Circle Mi h. Hammond then went to r Lon Ion on- on J Ion don and antI became interested In many l r mining concerns eventually being as- as 1 with Cecil Ceeil Rhodes He lIe has hasI I been connected with the Gug en- en I 11 J 11 helm lm Interests tH and in the world of mines has ro n famous It Tt is quite likely that tho West will support him for fol the vice presidency notwithstanding a minor from rom Call Calf fornia ornia to Jo the effect that there thelo Is some opposition to him In hI his native state f W i In addition to indorsing Mr 11 lIam lIam- montI mond the county committee dl discussed matters mailers pertaining to the coming cam cam- pal n. n There Thero were 1 13 members of the tho committee present and auel it was an nn enthusiastic en on- meeting It was held heM In tho the rooms of or the Young Mens Men's Republican club t |