The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1914-09-05
THE NINETEENTH ANNIVERSARY BROAD AK STILL
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fifty feet long and more than one hour
of time is consumed by the man who
operates the mailing machine and four
or FIVE girls, who work real fast, to get
it ready TO mail, and now when it is
all ready, an expressman drives at break
neck speed with the six sacks to the
main post Office from whence it is
transported through the mail to all
parts of the United States.
Many times copies containing its
bright and sparkling editorials and
other articles on the leading topics of
the day have been eagerly read by many
of the most eminent statesmen and other
distinguished persOnages in this country
and far beyond the broad deep blue sea.
With the aid of the daily press, whose
editors have frequently commented on
its neat appearance from its inception
to the present and with the further aid
Of the associated press, its name has
been hurled CT flashed clear around or
throughout the civilized world.
1t may not be out of place to state
that during the past nineteen years it
has CALAMITY fought a long and per
sistent fight in behalf of justice and
the equality of all men before the law.
In five of the most exciting great presi-
Dental campaigns ever waged in this
country The Broad AK Loyalty supported
Col. William J. Bryan in 1896, in 1900,
Judge Alton Brooks Parker in 1904,
Col. Bryan in 1905, and Woodrow Will
son in 1912, fighting on the side of the
toiling millions and against the rich or
the heaven born, the gigantic trusts
and the blood sucking mOnOpolies.
1t has never hesitated in bitterly de-
nouncing those who have attempted to
appropriate unto themselves all of the
functions of government and ride rough
shod over the rights and the liberties
of the common people. 1t has made not
the slightest difference to it whether
those who have attempted to do so have
been Republicans, Democrats or what
nots.
1t has accomplished many brilliant
achievements in the past, but its two
greatest achievements have been its
terrific and memorable onslaughts on
United States Senator Frank J. Cannon
of Utah, causing his defeat in his at
tempt to succeed himself and Senator
Benjamin R. Tillman in 1906.
Those who are familiar with the past
history of the famous oath regiment are
still cognizant Of the fact that in the
latter part of July in 1896 that Daniel
Lamont, secretary of war, under the
second administration of President
Grover Cleveland, issued an order-Gs.
moving that regiment from Silver City,
New Mexico, to Fort Douglas, which is
located near Salt Lake City, Utah, and
Immediately after the order had been
promulgated by Secretary Lamont the
Salt Lake Tribune, which has been for
many years the leading Republican daily
newspaper between Omaha, Nebr., and
San Francisco, Calf, began to bitterly
oppose locating the oath regiment at
that fort. Every day on its editorial
page it would paint revolving pictures
of half drunken Negro soldiers stagger-
ing up and down the streets of Salt
Lake City, insulting White ladies and
beautiful young girls.
1t repeatedly declared that "when
the Negro troops displaced the White
soldiers at that fort that they should
not be permitted to ride on the street
cars as the Whites did not want to
come in such close social contact with !
a lot of half drunken "Nigger" SOL
diers."
As the Tribune favored the reelection
of the Hon. Frank ]. Cannon to the
United States senate at the expiration
Of his first term, March 4th, 1899, early
in September, 1896, it induced or forced
him to call on Secretary Lamont and
present him with a petition which was
signed by the chairman of the Republi-
can state committee of Utah and by
many other leading Republicans and
Democrats residing in Salt Lake City.
protesting against permitting the oath
locating at Fort Douglas. In
the meantime we began to FIRE redhOt
shots into Senator Cannon and the
Tribune and as he was very popular
with the great mass of the people
residing in the western country for he
was one of the western senators who
had walked out of the Republican Ma
;ional convention at st. Louis, Mo-, in
1896, because it did not favor the free
coinage Of silver at the ratio Of 10 to
|, and all the daily and weekly news
papers throughout Utah joined in the
ong-tO-be remembered political fight,
the majority of them living up on the
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