The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-18
Mac s Saturday Chat

The people OF Ogden who are making
such vigorous protests against Glas-
mannizing their postofiice and who are
| criticiZing Congressman Howell SO Sc
verely should examine more closely the
record which they themselves have per
mItted Glasmann to make Has he not
been the king-pin and the center drive
| of the entire political and municipal
machine in Ogden for the past five or six
years9 Have the people of Ogden not
permitted him to control them AS abso-
| lutely at times as any boss ever con
| trolled Philadelphia or New York;
| Have Ogdenites not had not one
but dozen opportunities to put this
| notorious parsonage on the rack and
| keep him thercl 1t looks very much to
man up tree that the politicians
and business men of Ogden are reaping
as they sowcd. Hundreds of them he elped
| TO make and keep Glasmann political
| factor. Even today there are only Il
few spirits with sufficient courage to
publicly speak against him. They say
they are afraid Of his newspaper, and
there islno man on earth who will take
such swift ADVANTAGE of public timdity
as the so-called Republican leader who
will soon have control of the most i'm
portant public Office in Weber county.
This situation, the permitting OF
Glasmann to be the "it' in Weber pol
itics for so long, through fear of and
not through love for him, has been mis-
interpreted by Congressman Howell, He
believes that Glasmann Is popular, He
believes that Glasmann will continue to
control the Republican party in Weber
county. lie believes that without Glas~
mann s assistance he cannot possibly Sc
cure solid delegation for him for re-
nonlnDtlpn AVID pyp,t1l INa iro oo
unfair to savagcly criticize the weak
old man in the Attorney General s Of
tce. for having unwittingly attempted
to influence the Congressman 8 judicial
nephew as to blame the two.by-four
statesman from Cache valley for mis-.
interpreting the political status Of the
soon-to-bo Ogden postmaster.
'tDo You know why President Roose-
welt was induced to appoint Glasmann
postmaster at Ogden2''
"No, III be darned if I do. Was it
because he had 4 strong political pulI7''
"Nawl That had nothing to do with
it whatever -
Was it because Bill is reputed to
be an honest man?'
'Bill an honest MANI Well, 1 should
say mott That had nothing whatever to
do with it. Honest men are not what
the President rs especially looking for
for office in Utah. AT any rate. the
question of honesty did not enter into
"Wcll, what in the thunder did he
appoint him for, anyway"
"I1l tell you why, Bill one time
owned herd of buffalo. He kept them
over on Antelope island. That's how
he got the title, Buffalo Bill Teddy
heard about it; concluded there was
good sporting blood in Bill, and he
Just roped him in and made him a mem
Der of his official family regardless Of
the protests of decent people of Bill g
town. For q while it looked mighty
blue for Bill and III bet a pair Of
coyote g ears that he never would have
been appointed had the President not
have heard Of that buffalo business. -
The Smoot machine is said to be
planning to make Jimmy Hammond
chairman Of the State central commit.
tee, to succeed William Spry. 1t is
said that Navajo Jimmy is engineer
ing this with the hope Of bringing some
respectability into the headquarters.
Anderson and his satellites (and what a
measly sort of a satellite one of Navajo
Jlmmy's must be) circulated n story
against Hammond while he was a can.
didate for Governor that was about
the most disreputable thing in Utah
politics. Now they need Hammond to
help reassemble the scattered fragments
of the so-called Republican party and
are Jollying him into the belief that
they regard him as the only man to re-
construct. Friends of Hammond say he
is too wise to be made a monkey Of in
this manner, and that is the general
public estimate of him, too.
That was a terrible arraignment
which Justice McCarty made Of Suth-
erland's political career He charged,
and Sutherland virtually confessed in
his answer, that Sutherland had de-
nounced those who pushed Smoot for
ward as Senator, proclaimed that the
election of Smoot was the same as the
elevation of the Mormon church to a
Senatorial station and influence, and
afterwards permitted Smoot to buy him
himself with the Senatorship! There
are many hundred thousands of Ameri-
cans who believe that the man who will
be purchased with an Office is not one
whit better than the man who will sell
his political influence and contract for
his silence for gold. The manner in
charge square into the face of the iun-
ior sycophant from Utah will lqave
sting that even the Balm of Gilead
would not soothe. Every one who thinks
on the local political situation knows
that Sutherland sold himself for a Sen
atorship-for church serving, Smoot-
serving Senatorship, too-but when the
soon-to-b be Chief Justice of this State,
a man known from Cache valley to the
Colorado for his rugged honesty, de-
clares that Sutherland sold himself and
nrnNn1 IN tho ,ofo
man who is susceptible of being con
WINGED of situation by proof, it re-
quires mightier man than the puffed-
up Utah Senator to dispose of such
charge by the mere wave Of the hand.
1t was body-blow, dealt with pre-
cision-a solar plexus, administered
doubtlessly with determination to make
it knock out.
Poor Farley P. Everybody likes Par
ley! He Is so easy. SrNh an innocent,
inofTnnsivn youno fa1lomI II &c W., ,xvox,'