The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-02-21
4 VOICE FRQy! WAslTcH
Leo Hae fiji, the Author
Of GAS You
Like IT,
Send His Compliments and
Well Wishes for the Sue
cess of "The Dispatch"
In Which He Rakes Away the
Co bWeba Of the Past and
Talks Of Rygones.

| Correspondence of The DISPATCH. i
1t is strange that | should write for 0
DISPATCH again; but then isn't this
the age of dispatch. when everything
Is done at an accelerated pace, when
messages circle the globe in a minuta
and passengers cross the continent in
four days? 1t is, indeed, the age OF
electricity, which means the epoch c1
dispatch. And with what fleet fee;
Time has sped on, whirling my humble
smallness along ia the mad career
since the winter of 1S89-sO, when ]
used to write for Judge Brewster's
Dispatch at nOgdsn, one of the ofirst
Liberal papers in the Northern me.
tropolis-and one of the numerous
tenants in the Newspaper Row OF
Ogden's Cemetery Of Departed Great.
nesses. 1t was quiet in those days,
and the political pot never rose above
q gentle simmering point; hence good
deal OF writing was on art and science
We'll, l remember my ''Sophomore"
article on "Wilhelmj" please don't
miss the "J', the celebrated violin
artist, whose weird Hungarian tunes
were equaled only by my weird, steppe-
like prose. rolling as the purztas where
roam the herds of tie Czikas.
This brings me to Major Jesse NJ.
Langsdorf, then leading man in the
Commercial National Bank on the
then Fourth street, and manager of
the Union Oper! House, the best Og-
den could show in those days of de-
minutiye present and gigantic future
in the line Of amusement halls. 1t was
on his suggestion filled a column, or
sO,0f the Frewester Dispatch published
in the Freeman" building, opposite
the Standard structure on Twenty
fourth rtseet), where now Hon. a. II.
Nelson, ex-President of the Ogden
Chamber OF Commerce, and one of the
most promising and pushing public
men OF the Junction city so rich in
valuable citizens and city lotsD has his
| Well-frequented real estate and abstract
Office, climbing up the golden stairs"
OF which | have seen many a lucky in
vestOr. The Major was then taking a
finishing touch in German from me,
that means he polished up his almost
native tongue against my own tongue,
as it were. He might have been pre-
pairing for "the great tour of Europe;n
but at any rate, when he left the ledg-
erS and cash books of the bank, he
settled up in Ogden valley, establishing
model ranch with standard stock and
turning himself into gsntleman-cow-
boy, so to speak, greatly to the bene-
| fit OF his own health and that of his
most estimable family. He became.
as 1t were, a Cincinnatus, or Dioc-
letian, and it was either from the
plowshare of the former ancient
Roman, or the cabbage plantation of
the latter, that his old fellow-citizens
| recalled him into the busy marts of ac-
tive life, in the maddening croWd''
Of Ogden's wall street. . Was it a sur
prise to me, to hear aS his noninatie,
fort he Mayoralty lAzAe Citizsaigg ". !.
SvfPatvssa vssa5t1nKftiiiie aGt1nKftiie s brogrs1IlI N 8
mons, who, burning former political J
teuds and waving all religious differ
ences, Joined hands to cleanse out the
more than -Egean stable into which
the NeNutt ring had turned the City
Hall, that beautiful civic monument
to the economy and public spirit. en-
terprlSe and taste or the last Peoples
administration in the Junction Cityf
No, 1t could not surprise me to hear
OF Major Langsdorf being chosen the
standard-bearer of the combined anti
rIngltes and Peoples party, when |
remembered that in the early eighties.
when the most hopeful Gentle
despalred of ever seeing a non Nor
mon rule in Ogden, the character Of |
Mr.. Langsdorf had so strongly recon- |
mended and endeared him that his
name was not infrequently whispered !
as a possible candidate for civil pre-
tsrmentS at the hands of his Mormon
fellow citizens, when they held su.
preme sway, while they were willing
to accord the minority a right and
representation which their successors
OF 1883, in their mad intoxication and
brutal Joy over afraudulently achieved
victory never thought of according.
Well then as now, the Major preferred
the independence of private business
to the nerye-Btraining responsibilities
Of high public station, and the sweets
Of an unclouded domestic life of bliss
ful peace to the empty, tinsel-like
lonorS of public eXaltation. the
crown of which is often one of thorns
'ather than of laurelS or roses.
Indeed, to cleanse the aforesaid
Engean stable of mismanagement.
;alled ths public affairs of Ogden 1
requires broom with s
ron withes and hickory handle, with :
brawny hand and strong wrist to
wing the pruning tool Such, am
lad, viii be applied honestly and
earlesSly, by day and by night in
and rain, in summer and
winter, by VIM. II. Turner Let me
IMPRESS it upon all your readers,
hough scores of miles away from
ogden city, the contest there on the
tn inst, was one of vastly more than
)cal Importance or significance. The
1auence by its result VIII be felt
throughout the length and breadth of
his large and populous, thrifty and
roSperous territory. n
Utah is beSet by a horde Of un-
carpet baggers of all sorts
nd kinds, political free-bootsrs of
very nation and denomination. \
ak about ''priest-ridden," az the
Tibune and its brood Of no less poison
is but less able whelps ara wont to
,lutter in their rabies: | think tbs
al evil OF "boodlerriddenness" ex-
'eds all imaginary evils of priest
dden" condition as Mont Blanc pales Y
le mole hill at its foot. But Of this
subject more in the
sar future, for the final outcome at
gden has given as something SUBJ
antial on which to base well-founded {
ognostications for the immediate or
mote future of every municipality Fl
this territory, so beautifully dotted
th proud cities, busy towns, pros n,
rous villages and lovely hamlets -
all the home of a happy population, -
ppy as long as the designs Of the
ley intruder or brutal assailant can
successfully withstood and per.
anentlV rspulsed. -
AS this letter has already reached Id
inordinate length for o Nero tbut III
hope not idls) thought On political -
,ics, will close it. In my next |
w cnnfinnn tha anhinnt or Snhat,