Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-07
HOW Utah Delegation WON the Encampment

s,yya that the hustle 81 preparFl ~
NJ Nan for the big gest = INVENTION
Vent, III The history Of Salt Lake
Egf y slsfty is near and every
ring is 4 III rent illness to receive
III III body OF yenera diersSsyl1o
ss,aS t,,ne the ives that this ma
I ~. .,aa might remain intact, a timely
5 a u d brief retro tive view of
& Y. sss.;v;ei,ts and efforts Of Ind vidualss
/ M md les which suited In securing
H. H. sit lake the forty third annual
Z ;ancaIInpr,eilt II the brand Army ofS the
G republic.
sTIc blttle was Tough out Sil1 he ri
I'll IN second encana pipe llt, held last
ysar In the city or eledo md
+ Won. II en ,'
4 Sswork against AL ne
\ mace. Of 4 the next meeting Of et-sa
II arsns.: he city n Of Wsashin ton wanted
enca r,puent but here were q few
VI. VI mo II ere. working for this city and
x tboss we're lii tl's ma 6rity d. II 81
4 eood generalship, and lligent Ell n
fortS ere con erned aid \ IA
$ Won.a Az
when that strrd " a lcgnt ion q & old
soldiers left Il Sal LAX for Toledo
y sst year, with the full PURPOSE Of new 81
~ M laying down tlleii, arms until the
dght the next Ell laplrent should:
bes Won for the far Western city, y wa 81
q At the stirsts time hat the Department
I III Utah had Sou gfi see Dire Y con-
ver,ton.5 Ten years 4 s q, ~ hen the thir-
ty.third encatlp inent was being held :n5
the city Of Philadel phia !, Maurice N .4
Kalghn, then coinlhtile der OF the
partinent OF Utah, appeared before that
encalnpnient With an IN vitation from
The city council OF Sal 7 La Ike. the icsss.l
s IN. con,mis sioners Of Salt lake county,
4. ia tia al council of Ogden, resolutions
Y passedsby a mass meeting held at Pro-
70, and al lettersof invitation from Gov
4 HELPER NJ Wells of the State Of tab
aud John Clark, ma yori OF Sail Lake
4 city; letters from Lorenzo Snow, hen.
president Of the Mormon Ghurch ;3s Jc-&l
sept il. Rawlins, United States senator
& and W. Al Nelden, then president d. the
CITY board Of ed ucat1on inviting the
thirty fourth national encampm omen I to
3 come to salt Lake. At that time the
8ctysof Ghicngo was also The race
i for the encampme Mt and Salt Iakeflost. s.
i FIE, II ITIAL GUN:
III 1905 when the forty first encamp-
ment was being held III in 81 Saratoga
Springs, the representa- iyes from tab
distributed 1000 sill ribbons among
the delegate Is, thus notifying thes en-;
equipment tina sal Il Lake City would y
again be III III the ace for The fbrty77i
third encampme nt to be held in August,
n 1909 ~. i e III ~
Then came the for y second encalnp-5
n ient at Toledo, I, where the work
making possible all the detail of
& preparat ton viii ehs3i oa tically55
complete, for this CITY to entertain the
veterans of the Grand Arm v in nation
al eneampmert was performed, to ]
4 the everlasting credit Of the entire dele
I CATION from Utah. all of whom d i'd good
work in behalf of this city and state.
2
8 Standing out, however y among those
who were foremost on the firing line
D and whose blows in the tllckests of the
fight routed the opposition from its
trenches leaving the Sheig lights Of yictoEys
in the hands OF the q aims, are LheS
s figures OF Col, George E. squites, who
delivered the speech or vitation to-
4 hold the 1909 encampm ent II, the city
of Salt Lake, and - ames Tanner.
j past command er-in-ch lief of the
A: ! r. who delivered a speech In
support Of Salt Lake which turned the
tide Of the convention against the city
Of Washtngt ton. and lin favor of the
metropolis Of the II inland empire the
west. 4.
COL SQIJIRES, SPEECH a. s5s
Col sauires' speech be fore the con-
vent!on was renal cable in its terseness
and brevity. vet pow erful in convincing
the delegates that Salt Lake was in
dead earnest when it 3 asked \ them to
bring west the forty third encampme emit
The speech is re produced herewith in
full. Col. squires on being recognized
by the commando Ell in chief. said =
Command er and colnra les we have
come n, long d Stance over the noun
81 tains and the ms to- extend to you
ortlial inyit tat Ion to wi Isl 7, on ityi
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