Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-11
BOOMS HAMMOND
FOR SECOND PLACE
N. H. De Young, Heading Ca|ifor-
MIA Republican Delegates,
Speaks OF His Favorite.
WANTS UTAH MEN TO HELP.
Self Interest He Says Should Bring All
Western Votes to Standard OF
Big Mining Expert,


Still wearing the smile which OF all
his San Francisco possessions was the
| only thing not destroyed In the earth
quake. M II. DeYoung, owner Of the
San Francisco Chronicle. is today greet
ing friends in Salt Lake.
Mr.. DeYoung is incidentally bound for
Chicago as head of the Golden Gate
delegation to the Republican national
convention and his candidates are Will
| liam II. Taft for president. and John
Hays Hammond for vice president He
thinks Rawhlde Is the best mining
| town now on the map, and that John
Hays Hammond is the best friend the
mining interests in America has. utah.
| he thinks, by way of a corrollary 10
this general proposition. can do justice
| To her mining interests In only one way,
| and that is by working for John Hayes
| Hammond. To his mind the Hammond
| end of the ticket Is more important, as
a subject for personal activity, than the
| Taft end.
SUPPOSE tnat tT1e ldlN anu iNvVSN-
| Welt forces-that is the administration
| SHOULD have acentered upon Cortelyou
as the second name on the ballot, and
that Won should run the Hammond
boom counter TO this proposition was
a question put to Mr.. DeYoung wheii
he was found at his room in the hnuts-
ford this morning.
FIGHT FOR HAMMOND.
"well." was the answer you can
rest assured that many of the can
rornia men--I cannot speak for the
whole delegation, for we have not YET
c,aucussed--want John Hays hammond
ON that ticket We need him for the
welfare of the much neglected mining
industry, and we need him so paaly
that | can almost say that II the Iaft
menagers arc irving to interfere In the
vice presidential matter they VIII ma
thev can't deliver the goods | know
one delegate at least they can't deliver
and / guess there'll be others
TAFT AND PHILIPPINES.
| what do you Californians think OF
| Taft's Philippine policy! was sps Is
restea. Are yo,, afraid at all that his
| sympathy for the insular development
| will cause letting down of tarim pars
| an sugar and other products, TO the
| harm of western raw materials.
| mot in the least" the answer came
| without hesitation. we long ago go
over that bugaboo OF fearing the PM
| ippine products. Let them come. we
| import lots of sugar now. and the open
| ING of Philippine trade on a free OASIS
| viii only transfer to that market ORDERS
| that now go to other markets, such as
| the Cuban -
To those who gathered news In san
| Francisco Just after the earthquake,
| while the people were shaking OH the
! ashes and the hust, Mr.. De Young re-
| mains as "a memory OF man IN very
| dirty automobile, rushing from the
| Chronicles temporary headquarters on
Fillmore street to the police headauai-
| ters I'm the street or to the headquar-
| tors az the relief organizations nearby.
| Here and there the crowds of tourists
| found charred remains that old timers
| nointed out, as what used TO he DE
| Young's theater--the Alcazar--or his
| newspaper-the Chronicle or his resi-
| dence In combination wreck OF fre ana
earthquake.
HuSTLING FRISCO.
When the April days of 1906 were re-
| called 10 him this morning Mr.. De
| Young smiles a thoroughly Frisco smile
| which dwindled away into the enthu,
siastic sentence. But Frisoos q Dird
| az a town now. We blew in sos. 900, 900
| 1900 new buildings TO use up the
| money. II surprises even the oldest OF
| us 10 go up and down the streets and
| see how they grow. Sky scrapers seem
| TO jump up over night. the street
| cars are damned with people-ail that
| can climb on TO them. and more are
waiting for the next car. and It's never
| than a minute behind. We have fuily
as many people there now ms we had
before the quake. and we'll be twice
as big a city before we begin 10 let
up.
How about the trolly cars--are they
fully welcome on Market now, or DO
the people pine for the old time cable
lines without the overhead wires.
Gable lines? The thought caused
laugh. They've gone the way OF the old
days. The trolley is perfectly accept
able. At first we let the trolley lines
I'm because we had 10 have transporta-
ton reopened. Then we liked them
so much we kept them. The cable
slulces were wrecked In the quake, and
It would have been q great problem
TO rebuild them for service san Fran
cison's cars now are OF the same pat
tern as the new ones I'm Salt Lake"
When Il was suggested that Mr.. De
Young himself didn't look to have been
so completely swept away by the quake
as II seemed a week after II was over.
he preached bit OF the philosophy
which has been so Characteristic Of the
| renovation.
II never looked back" he said.
Never once. The losses were gone.
! | struck them off the ledger and went
! right ahead with never a glance be-
hind and I've never yet taken one
DURING THE QUAKE.
ut was weeks before I got a look
| al lots OF my property after the quake.
| When men have a night on their hands,
| the first move r. TO get rid OF the wo-
| men folks. sent mine 10 San Rafael
| the day after the quake, and never
saw them for Ave weeks again. And
| In those weeks l lined up In the bread
| line with the rest drew my ration, ate
| II where could, and worked along
each DAY with the crowds. The Chron-
| icle ! kept going II didn't miss an
| issue and now the new building IL
| completely finished with the finest in
terror money could get our library
where the records were kept In the old
days had 100000 biographies In II.
| Now 500, 900 Of them are restored, ana
over, 800 portraits OF men ia public HE
are on hand for instantaneous use In
case OF sudden news interest In them,
The last thng ! did before coming
away WAS to order TWO new cases Tor
| our file Of half tones 40 that the pa
per Il better equipped now than before
| the Are Our library IN not quite 50