The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-11-13
A Letter From an Old Salt Laker.
Salt Lake in 187l-The Past Con-
test-Fomale Voters.
Never too Late to Marry.
The GlOries of a New England
Autumn.
Things Of Beauty that are Joys
Forever.

| OL4 mOntub hBO O1uo SlAQ HQlSo
10 the sunshine Aua, suoH Of Salt
/ Lake Valley, sad 10 the frost and
shadows OF toe WasAtch mountains,
after = Eoiourn in Zion Of 70 little over
q month. 1t Gsems insxplicable that
90 much ennm could have been
crowded into co short q visit a. Was
found in the half dozen swift weeks
Ispent there; but this was possibly due
TO the frequent SHOWS Of your April
season and the forced inactivity,
mental and physical, consequent
thersupon, and so tiresome to one in
haste TO be away. Perhaps there
was added thereto the memory OF
those stirring tcens- in the good old
times" when the federal ring" in
Utah was in its heydAy Of glory and
despOtio sway; and too VIVID rscol-
lection OF the axcitsnent incident
thereto. How wonderful the change
in eight or nine short yeArsl Aud how
well do l remember the lively fall OF
1871 when Yours Truly frat came
among ye good psopIe of UtahI At
that time the Emma aud the Flag
staff mines were the bonAnzss of
Little Cottonwood. while tin was
being discovered about Ogden, and
discussed with intense enthusiasm
until many . deAizeu Of the mining
camps Was convinced there were
millions in it." But there we're
two or three men in advance of all
others in contributing TO the irritating
excitement of those dayt. Two in
particular presen. themselves with
greater strength OF coloring to my
minds eye just now, although they
we're by no means alone in their
efforts 10 make Utah q lively place
of abode. Oscar Sawyer the
irresponsible and irrepressible special
correspondent OF the New York
Herald, and Gould, the agent of the
Associated Press, are the pictures
Just now prominent to view. Night
after night the jolly and rotund Oscar
made financial hay by the moonlight
with his 500 to 1000 word specials OF
glorious sensation. bssprinkled witt
the red pepper and mustard Of COM
ing war ana insurrectionl among the
Mormons, while Govsrnor Gould,
sbly seconding the Efforts OF Sawyer,
d sed the press of tbs country with
gallon upon gallon Of stiff seasoned !
i've, (lies) until the red glare OF hell |
grew darker ct his froWn," and the
hoarse thunders OF booming cannon
ratified from his pencil-tip. All, those
were "times that tried mems souls"
and made the newspaper profession
something worth following in Salt |
Lake City. And there was such an
airy originality about al the produc-
tions OF those Siamese twins, the blast
Of whose dread horns 80 fierce echoes
sHoke, that we may rightly and With |
due equity place their forms in the |
first, front ranks of all the fery |
throns whose bugles have 40 often |
blown to tbs brisk air OF Mormon
dom overthroWn. Alas for thoSs
days that Hre no moro, fed, nsver to |
returnl The present hours OF dull |
quietude we're broadly forSShGdoWed |
when Gould and Sawyer found too |
poor picking in Zion to longer entice |
them to linger there.
''WheA they two parted
In silence and tears,
Half broksn-hearted
TO sever for years."
1t required no marvellous gift of |
second-sight to psrcsive that the sra
OF sensation Was about to shake frem |
her Bsndsled feet the dust OF your
broad streets, and seek fields better
to hunt in for sensation game. No |
doubt it WAS the memory Of those 40
tive times that made me 30 soon an |
ennUys where had passed many =
ysar OF hustle and excitement. If 80.
the srsi has amply made up in the
Last half dozen months for the dull
pesG OF Utah. Torehlights and pa
rsdGs, and stump speeches and spicy |
editorials, have most thoroughly !
moved Us al here in the states dur
ing PLEASANT summer and autumn |
Just passed, and it is really relief to
know that the campaign Is over and
the issue decided beyond question or
doubt. With the election of Garfield
the fraud argument is laid to rest,
and thefuiure, must develop new points
Of attack for the great opposition to
republican methods and republican
practices Of the present day.
There is no doubt that Garfield will
fail 70 find . mAiority OF the popular
vots in his favor, despite his decisive
majority Of electors, but that iG . sub
ieot to be remedied in the future; and
with cabinet that it il possible for
him to choose, his administration
ought to be al improvement on any
thing We have had in the lsst dozen
years. The Solid South has but one
course to pursue. She will undoubt
eddy attend to her own development
and material progress; continuing
to oppose republican ideas as Btur6ily
80 ever until the Bloody Shirt
shall have become too stale rsllyipg
CRY for even the wild and fanatical
voters IN whom it now exeites all the
passions OF the war, and until their
limaginstions no longer take fire st
the recital Of bugbesr and threadbare
sensations. As usual the democratic
managers permitted the republicans
to steal sll their thunder and turn
what ought to have been, and what
promised TO be o mere wslk-oVer for
| Hancock into the most severely con-
Tested struggle OF years; and none
} played bis cards better than Conk-
ling, ~hot with consummste skill, st
Chicago, snAtched victory from the
= jaws OF defeat, and family, by placing
the grim Ulysses on the stump,
turned the whole grand success into
q Grant triumph. Il is interesting to
recall the political prophecies CT last
spring snd note how full of surprises
the campaign has been. Grant and
Tllden, so iondly looked for by eager
: muldtudes to tear the standards OIL
: their respective hosts. we're knocked
out oil time in the hrst round, and
: the bury Blaine, that "plumec
D Knight from whom was expected q
y prodigious deeds OF valor 81 to maxi
Q the welkin ring, bad bis light quickl!
J put under q bushel at Chicago il
l. June and completely squelchei b.
: the Maine greenbAek success in Sep
I, TENDER, as deity and neAtly as
ts pulled out BY = summer zephyr.
q And the Republic still lives! Il
likely to through many another pres
:, Dental struggle, for the people rule
70 Su,a1 Y Anthnny SAWS when ia