The broad ax., 1922-12-23

rights. Your course is commendable
and hope and believe that you will
not only continue. but persist therein
Most respectfully yours,
J. w. Judd,
| Chairman Utah Commission
Tennessee Centennial Exp
Salt Lake City, June %. 1897
Mr.. julius F. Taylor.
City.
Dear Sir:-I am informed that you
have been instrumental in collecting
and shipping very creditable exhibit
OF minerals from this state to the Ten
nessee Centennial Exposition at Nash
vile and that Mrs. Taylor has also
loaned some valuable original paint
ings for said exhibition-these to be
exhibited in the Negro Building. "
For this service to the public the Col
ored citizens of Utah ought to be es-
pecially grateful as they will be accred-
tied with the exhibit by the thousands
of spectators who will view the same
at Nashville.
Permit me TO tender the thanks OF
the public as we'll as my personal
thanks in recognition OF the energy
and public spirit displayed by your
self and wife.
Very respectfully,
Heber NJ. Wells,
Governor.
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 sep
arates life from the ever-present death
and passed into the next world.
Continued from page S.
Namely, Hadley 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 Bay
lor of Providence, R. l., and Capt.
John T. Campbell of the Old Soldiers
Home, Lafayette, 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
existence 1t was Col. Irvine who
wrote the two beautiful and interest
ing stories which ran through these
columns in 1906, THE Slave of Mu-
rillo" and Benjamin Bannecker."
May their sweet, honest and courage
Gus spirits repose in peace throughout
eternity.
As stated before in these columns
one copy of the Thirteenth Anniver-
sary Edition of The Broad AK, includ-
ing several copies of other issues and
our business card. are deposited in
the copper lined box which rests in
the cornerstone of the new city hall,
which was laid July 20, 1909, and no
other Afro-American publication was
honored with space within it which
will be handed down to generations
yet unborn.
The latter part of November, 1899,
while attending a political conference
of national importance at the old Sher-
man House in this city, just as it was
drawing to close, very tall, clean
cut featured parsonage approached us
who was as straight as an Indian, with
bright steel blue eyes, and as he drew
near to US he laid one of his hands on
our shoulder, at the same time look
ing US through and through and in a
sharp or rather commanding voice he
wanted to know our name. Without
uttering one word and with our eyes
riveted upon his we presented him
with ono of our business cards. Then
he inquired it we were an editor and
we simply said. That is what the
card indicates" Then he presented us
with a very plain. small card which
simply said. William Sulzer, lis
Broadway, New York City" The card
failed to state that at that time he
was a member of Congress from the
Tenth Congressional District of New
York City and that he was one of the
most eminent lawyers in this country.
Before Withdrawing from our pres
ence he requested US to send The
Broad AK to him-that after he had
received four copies of the paper of
separate dates that he would send us
his check for his subscription to it
for one year.
From that time to the present or
for % long years, Hon. William Seller
has been a constant and steadfast sup
porter of this publication and aside
from our wife, Mrs. Taylor, we admire
him better than any other human be-
ing on the face of the broad earth.
Not having a great many Colored
people residing in his Congressional
district, Congressman Sulzer did not
mix up much with them. Neither was
he interested in their affairs until after
he became a regular reader of this
paper. AS the years rolled by we
began to understand him better and
better all the time Finally we wrote
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