The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-23
STRONG BOARD
CONTROLS CLUB
Executive Committee of Bryan
Organization of Salt Lake
Chosen by Officers.
MEMBERSHIP is GROWING
CAMPAIGN FOR NATIONAL TICK
EFT IN UTAH is BEGUN.

Inc SAT- Lake City Bryan club yes
'eroay completed its organization with
the appointment by the officers of the
remaining three members of the execu-
i've committee. With the three mem
oers appointed yesterday the executive
committee consists of Will w. Ray.
president; John F. Tobin. vice presi-
cent Will H. Leary. secretary: Perley
a biii. treasurer: w. H. Dale, Joseph
=: stringfellow and Athol Rawlins.
Inc three last members of the COM
nIttee were chosen at a meeting Of the
o1cers In the office of the president in
the Atlas block yesterday afternoon.
Inc details of the campaign in Utah
were discussed at some length and a
meeting of the full committee was
called for next Tuesday evening. At
this meeting committees on Campaign.
nhahce, publicity and speakers and
SUCH other subsidiary committees as
The executive committee may decide
upon.
Two Hundred Members.
The membership of the club is now
rearly 200. Efforts are being made by
the officers and members to fncreas
TINS membership to 900 within a short
tlme. To this end membership cards
nave been distributed among the men,
5ers OF the club. and il is urged that
each secure as many members as pos
sible.
Qualifications for membership in the
Rryan club are so broad that any sup
porter of Bryan. no matter what his |
position in local politics may be. is |
cngible 10 Join the club. Republicans |
Democrats and Americans who be-
heve that Bryan should be elected |
president will be welcomed as men,
hers A membership fee of 81 Is
charged. The money derived from this
source is TO be used only in the inter |
ests Of the Bryan campaign in Utah.
Officers of the Club.
The officers of the Bryan club are
representative young men of Salt Lake
CITY They are well known through
out the state. and each is a hard.
earnest worked. Will W. RAY. the
president of the club. is a prominent
young attorney and an excellent public
speaker. He was born and reared in
Utah: his father was member of the
legislature from Willard county, and he
himself was a candidate for the legis-
lature from Salt Lake county two
years ago. He is a graduate OF the
L University of Utah and the law de-
partment of Ann Arbor.
John F. Tobin, vice president of the
club was a few years ago a star foot ,
cago team. For the last few years he
has been coach and director of ath-
letics for All Hallows college in this
city He Is a graduate OF the Uni :
versity OF Chicago law school, and is
now practicing law in Salt Lake. His
interest in clean sport has given him
a wide public acquaintance through /
the state, and II won for him the pres T
idency OF the Utah state baseball /
league. q
Allied Interests Represented. :
William II. Leary, the secretary. is 7
also an attorney. He has lived In Utah
for five years and is also we'll known A
the state. He was the u
clerk of the police court from 1903 to
1905. During the campaign of 1904 Mr.
Leary stumped the state for Parker
Mr.. Leary is a graduate of Amherst n
and the college Of law of the UNIVERSE
ty Of Chica
Perley A. Hill, the treasurer, is a
we'll known Salt Lake business man.
For several years he has been chair %
man of the state board or barber ex- a
aminers. and in this capacity has made %
Tor himself an enviable record as a u
public official. He was born In Utah a
nd has lived here all of his life At h
me last city election he was the DEM n
,cratic candidate for city recorder a,