The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-10-30

With this. contrast Mr.. Moyle's per-
sonaI and business and public record. In
the first place he is a son of Utah, was
born, reared and educated here. under
stands the spirit and institutions of the
state, and has served it in countless
ways. From his boyhood he has been
a worker. AS a stonecutter he was a
successful artisan, and the money he
gained by the labor of his hands was
used, not to enrich himself primarily.
but TO gain a still better education.
From the old Deseret university he
went through Ann Arbor. gaining
knowledge of the law and making a
special study Of economics and govern
ment. graduating with distinction and
fitting himself for the highest possible
public service.
On his return to Utah he inaugurated
a law practice which has been profitable
and honorable, but his experience has
not been limited to the practice of his
profession. If being a stakeholder and
director Of business institutions is a
qualification for the governorship, the
long list of commercial concerns with
which he is associated certainly quail
fies him for the. Office. But that is not
all; his connection with business life
is not limited to perfunctory duties of
a director or stakeholder. He has been
and is now actively associated with the
direction of the -Eldredge com
pany, he is the counsel and one of the
executive committee Of the Consolidated
Wagon & Machine company, one of the
largest concerns in the west: of the
Utah Commercial & Savings bank, a
director and member of the executive
committee of Clark, Hldredge & Co:
and one of the active managers of the
Deseret Livestock company, the larg-
est stoek-growing and land owning
company in the state He is also in
terested in z. c. NJ. l., Deseret Nation
al bank, lions Savings bank. Home
Fire Insurance company, B. Y. Trust
company, and various smaller con-
Germs. He has been active and prom
inent in the National Livestock associa-
ton, and the National Wool Growers
association, and he was one OF the first
investors in the Utah Sugar company.
His mining interests comprise proper
ties in Park City, Tintic, Bingham.
ophir, Mercur and Big and Little Cot
tonwood districts.
In comparison of the two men It will
be noted that Mr.. Moyle's activities.
while profitable, have not been limited
to purely commercial enterprises. AL
though identified with banking. with
business in numerous forms, he has not
been afraid to venture along lines in
voiving risks incident to the develop
ment of agriculture, livestock and min
ing.
When Salt Lake wanted the National
Livestock association to hold its con-
vention here, Mr.. Moyle went to Fort
Worth, made the speech presenting
Salt Lakes claims and was a powerful
factor in the triumph of the city in
that convention. There he rendered a
public service for which there could be
no reward except the appreciation of
the public. Similarly, his legal services
have been at the command of any pub
lie cause, and time after time he has
devoted his talent to such causes with
out hope or expectation of reward.
In the legislature he earned an ex-
perience which will be Invaluable in
the gubernatoriaI chair. AS chairman
of the legislative COMMITTEES in 1888. he
aided in the doubling of the appropria-
ton for the normal department of the
state university, and the better eouip-
ment Of the university itself: he helped
found the Agricultural college at Lo-
gan and the reform school and the
school for deaf mutes at Ogden. More
and better than all this, Mr.. Moyle has
been public-spirited citizen, ready at
all times to work for the public in any
good cause; and his public service has
always been rendered at a sacrifice of
his time and money.
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We submit that by the record the
Democratic candidate has all of the
business qualifications claimed for his
opponent, while his public experience.
his training and his lifelong associa-
tons in the public affairs of the state
make him immeasurably better ouau-
fed for the goyernorship than is Mr..
Cutler. He has the education, the prac-
teal training. the solid requirements
necessary for the Office. He has the in
dependence. the firm conviction that
ought to be part Of a governors eouip-
ment; and if he is elected he will be an
honor to the Office and to the state
which he represents. With his knowl-
edge of the law. experience, his educa-
ton, and his familiarity with Trtab's
needs he is pre-eminentIy the man for
the place