The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-07-11
GETTING ENTHUSIASTIC.

or entertaining the Grand Army vet
Grams during the National encampmcnt
in this city next month. all realizing
that the time is now getting short fol
preparation. Provo is indignant at the
lack of appreciation shown by some OF
the public officials down there, and the
people themselves are taking hold to sec
that Provo lives up TO the hospitality
that is expected of a western com.
munitY, and the vast appreciation Of
the service and devotion of the vetcr,
ans Of the great war. that is due Aud
when the people of community take
hold en- masse as the people of Provo
are doing, then the matter is as good
as fixed.
Tho people OF Ogden arc also taking
hold Of the matter in better style, and
are refusing TO be misled by the silly
venom shown at times by their papers.
which undertake to stir up bad feeling.
The Ogden Examiner, for instance. had
a long windod eoItorial, based upon a
short note in The Tribune, in which the
Examiner makes all sorts of walls about
'innuendo, mean and dcvilish' which
does not appear in the note itself or
| in its meaning, which was distinctly
friendly. And the Examiner explains
thc position Of Weber county and Ogden
City as follows;
IT is true, of course that Weber county
and Ogden city refused to contribute tn
general fund TO be used by tho central
committee located In Salt Lake. The
people here felt that inasnuch as they
had determined 10 take care OF the "ovcr-
flow OF the encampment. which, accord
ing TO the statements OF the Salt Lake
papers and Colonel Sterrett himself was
imminent, they would need all the funds
appropriated by tho city and county.
Provo took the same view OF the siuia-
ton and the appropriation there was
sand loaves Of bread were appropriated
by the ogden people 10 help Salt Lake
feed the veterans on the day OF the pa
rade, because II was claimed by the gen
eral committee at Salt Lake that The city
would need help in tins direction on that
day.
the entertainment Of tho gray-hared vet
Grams and Tho Tribune may rest assured
that when they return TO their homes
our city will have a very warm spot In
their hearts. This city will he mentioned
when they speak OF the cordial treatment
accorded them while In the state Of Utah.
The local committee is leaving no stone
unturred 10 afford the soldiers the time
OF their lives, No matter how many may
come 10 this city for entertainment ana
TO visit with comrades, they will he given
plenty and the best our tables afford.
There is no mistake about that. The Tri-
bunc and other papers of the capital city
arc not helping matters by continually
singing insulting phrases and innucndocs
at Ogden.
All Of which appears to be in good
local shape and style, except the
last sentence, which is both false
and foolish. Salt Lake City is
not complaining about Ogden at all,
though disappointed on general lines
but Salt Lake City backed Mr. Geoghe-
gan emphatically in his correspondence
with the commissioners Of Weber county
in which those commissioners showed
Il preJudiced, narrow, and vindictive pol
icy. We arc glad to see Weber county
and Ogden throw Of that spirit and no
be glad to visit Ogden, Provo and other
places, and the good disposition mani.
Tested for their entertainment and for
the extension Of true western hospital. |
ity TO them will be fully appreciated |
by them.
get up any contention about this mat |
ter, but quite the reverse; we wish to
be free and cordial not only with the
G, A. r. veterans themselves. but in
the entertainment of those veterans.
along with our neighbors; and we think
IN return that our neighbors should not |
put themselves out to find fault with |
Salt Lake and imagine innuendoes and |
a "mean and devilish'' disposition in
Salt Lake where nothing Of the kind
is either entertained or felt.
IT is entirely out Of place for us 10
get up any vicious contentious among
out here in entertaining the
G. a. r. veterans, The only contei,
tion that is beftting to the occasion.
the only rivalry that should exist. is
the contention as to who will do the
most for the veterans and who will The
most thoroughly succeed iii putting
those veterans in the frame of mind
that they will go to their respective
homes singing the praises Of MS Western
folk and full Of regret that thev can.
not stay longer among us Thus VIC
shall have their good will, and thew will
speak good words for US all over the
Republic; SO that If we should invite
them or any other National organiza-
tion to make. Salt Lake their meeting
place, these expressions Of good will and
praise will serve Us in good stead in get
ting what We want when we apply for
1t. No envy or jealousy, now, but all to-
gether for the patriotic and noble work
at hand!
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