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Show GOVERNOR RICHARDS ENJOYS CROWD ' AND EXCITEMENT OF THE REGISTRATION Senator Reed Smoot, Mayor W. M. Roylance, Republican National Committeeman Commit-teeman C. E. Loose and Commissioner Richards Holding Camera. I . " . (Provo, Aug. 1. Among the anxious crowds in Provo the. one absolutely unruffled un-ruffled man is the grey haired, square shouldered westerner who has tht w)ole thing on his hands. W.- A. Richards, Rich-ards, former governor of Wyoming, now- commissioner of the general land office, whenever you .meet him. looks as if he were enjoying the affair. i Probably, he is enjoying it. He has handled it smoothly enough thus far. Thanks to the plans made long before, Wr. H. Lewis and his eight clerks are rattling off registrations at a rate of '400 or so an hour. And in the process , the only jostling has been outside the booths. This man behind the system is getting get-ting used to reservation openings. He handled four of them prior to this. He,'s the man who went to his chief clerk in Yankton, when the town authorities au-thorities sold out to the gamblers who were fleecing hundreds' on. the streets, and said. "If it gets too disorderly, move the office to another town." That night a . vigilance committee drove off the riff raff. Governor Richards knows western land and western people. He has lived in , Wyoming too many years to ever forget the' limitless - possibilities for gooafor'evil that' exist' in the sagebrush sage-brush -and among the men who ride through it. "He owns a big cattle ranch in vthat state; and served its people as governor? He got much of his knowledge knowl-edge of " western "character in the days when' alii" who rode the' range wore forty-five single action Colts revolvers-in Hheir belts. Since the barbed wire fences came he has been in close touch - w-ith th ; development of - this Rocky mountain country. He is a quiet man. and. listens more than he talks and he'has a faculty of learning pretty much "everything. His forceS'Of clerks are all old timers now i'so - far. as reservation - openings are concerned, and he maintains that his presence-here-isn't really, necessary. Governor Richards has one hobby. It ip hie iodak. 'He carries a large size, folding camera much of the time and has- used it' to such good effect that he has among his-ppssessions, many hundred hun-dred views, taken in different parts of : the 'west; He can tell you more about light and shade and all that sort of thing' than many photographers, and if he sees you are interested in the subject, sub-ject, he's very apt to show you the new lenfie'h'e bought for his camera. That is the only thing anyone ever heard him boast about. |
