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Show FARR ANNOUNCES"' HIS CANDIDACY j SEEKS REPUBLICAN ! NOMINATION FOR ATTORNEY-GENERAL 1 ! 1 f I , 4r - I I "J 1 ! 1 " 1 , if ! i 1 I I W. HAL FARR ' W. Hal Farr, deputy attorney general gen-eral for more than seven years, is a candidate for attorney general. He has announced that he would seek the nomination by the Republican party for that office at the state convention con-vention to be held August 16. This action was taken by Mr. Farr after repeated urgings and promises of support had come to him from every part of the state. Mr. Farr is a native of Utah, the son of the late Winslow Farr and Matilda Halverson Farr and a nephew neph-ew of the late Lorin Farr. He has spent most of his life in this State and has engaged in the practice of law here over a long period of years, having been admitted to practice in all state and federal courts, and is a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States where lie has represented, the State in numerous numer-ous cases. He is also a member of the Phi Delta Kappa fraternity, honorary hon-orary scholastic society, Utah State i Bar Association and American Bar Association. His work was interrupted inter-rupted by the world war in 1917, in which Mr. Farr took an active part serving overseas with the 4th Army Corps and participating in the St. j Mihiel and Argonne drives and serv-. serv-. ing the winter of 1918-19 with the : Army of Occupation in Germany. He is at present an officer in the Reserve Re-serve Corps. Although he has never before been i a candidate for any public office.1 Mi'. ' Farri has served the public in the j capacity of deputy atorney general j for seven years last past and, in ad-! ad-! dition to being thoroughly conversant ; with the routine of the office he seeks, j he has had a wide and varied expcri-j expcri-j ence, and has made an enviable repu-: repu-: tation as a deputy. Because of this ! experience and knowledge of the work j in the office Mr. Farr's friends feel j that he is well fitted for the office. I He is best known to the people of j Utah and of the entire west for the recent fight waged and the victory ' won in Washington for the public , land states in behalf of the school ' land bill. In helping to secure title to school lands for the states he was largely instrumental in bringing to a successful conclusion in January of j last year a fight which has been going on for many years. In addition to having received many letters of commendation com-mendation from all parts ef the country coun-try for his work in behalf of this bill, Mr. Farr was the recipient of the pen President Coolidge used in signing the bill and was personally complimented by the President. Concerning the importance of this school land victory, the' Congressional Congression-al Record contains a speech delivered in the House of Representatives, January 17, 1927 by the Hon. J. H. Morrow of New Mexico, of which the following is an excerpt: "In my opinion this is as beneficial legislation as any that has been enacted en-acted by Congress in behalf of the public land states for a period of a quarter of a century; and as stated by one well toward the front in a department de-partment of the government: 'The government by the passage of this law, has given in value, at this time, mineral rights in school lands worth a hundred million dollars to the states for the education of its public school children." j Mr. Farr lives at 934 Greenwood street, Salt Lake City. He has a wide acquaintance which extends into every county of the state and has been endorsed en-dorsed for this office by several labor organizations as well as the leaders of his own party. It is predicted that, if nominated, he will draw a large independent in-dependent vote in the November election to the support of the Republican Republi-can party. |
