The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1914-09-05

Broad Ak in November, 1906 began its
terrific and memorable fight or on
slaught on United States Senator Ben
Jamln K. Tillman and for two weeks
before he attempted to speak at Or
ehestra Hall, Tuesday evening, NOvem-
Der %, 1906, the whole country was in
an uproar over it for the associated
press had flashed it to the fartherest
ends OF the earth and before it ended
all the great daily newspapers, the week
~ newspapers and even the monthly
publications took hand in it. So great
and SO bitter was the feeling against
permitting him to come to this city
to pour out his vile spleen against the
ColOred people and this sentiment
against him had been famed into fever
heat by the writer through the columns
OF The Broad Ak and by no one else
tor many OF the sO-called prominent
COlOred leaders OF the race at that time
severely condemned US for firing into
him at that time; they claiming that
he promised them aud one of their
White lady friends that he would not
touch on the Negro Question" while
delivering his sO-called lecture on the
Annexation Of Cuba" for the benefit
of the Union Hospital.
On the day OF his arrival in this
city he was met at the Northwestern
station by more than twenty policemen
who escorted him to the great Northern
Hotel where they stood guard over him
until he appeared at Orchestra Hall,
where more than two hundred policemen
had been stationed to protect him and
as he had been dashed into q fury by
our writings for We had dipped our
pen in wOrmwOOd and bitter gall, while
stripping the bloody mask from his an
arehistic face.
Still smarting under our merciless
flashing which had been kept up in
these columns for two weeks that he
had not been speaking more than a
few moments before he exclaimed to
HI with the law" when it comes
down to dealing with COlOred people,
and like q eOwardly midnight assassin
he was glad to cover behind six or
seven Colored policemen while he was
engaged in branding all Colored men
as "apes, balloons and rsvishers of
White women"
The morning after his last lecture in
this city its whole press turned against
him and on that same morning the Wis
consin Chatauqua Association cancelled
fOrty-eight thousand dollar contract
with him and our memorable fight on
him, almost single handed and alone,
finally drove him from the lecture plat
form.
1t is true that The Broad Ak is
small in size, nevertheless it has assisted
to shape the legislation of this mighty
nation; this can be verified by simply
reading senate document No. ls2, 54th
congress, second session, page az, which
contains an editorial from The Broad
Az in favor of the passage of the pres
emit National bankruptcy law.
Being absolutely free and independ-
ent in politics and free from debt it
fears no man nor any set of men or
politicians who have so far been spawn
ed upon the face of the earth.
Since August 81, 1895, four of the
notable contributors to The Broad Ak
who were among the best editorial
writers in this country have gently
drawn the thin veil aside which sepa-
rates life from the ever present death
and passed on into the next world.
Namely, Hsdley D. johnson of Salt
Lake City, Utah, who was for a long
time editor of the Salt Lake Herald, his
son-in-law, Colonel Clarke Irvine of
Oregon, Mo-, Charles Gano Baylor of
Providence, Rhode Island, and Capt.
John T. Campbell Of the Old Soldiers
Home, La Fayette, Ind. No truer
friends or sons of humanity ever lived
than the four above mentioned men,
for at all times their noble and warm
hearts were on the side of the weak and
the lowly in their struggle for exist
enee. 1t was Col. Irvine who wrote the
two beautiful and interesting stories
which ran through these columns in
1906, "The Slave Of Murillo" and
benjamin Banneker." May their
sweet honest and courageous spirits re-
pose in peace throughout eternity.
As stated before in these columns one
copy of the Thirteenth Anniversary
Edition Of The Broad Az, including
several copies of other issues and our
business card, are deposited in the
copper lined box which rests in the
of the new city hall, which
was laid July 20, 1909, and no other
publication was honored
with spaee within il which viii be