Show THE DICTATOR OP OF SALT LAKE on june 1895 the day that the writer arrived in this beau beautiful cit city jv and while we were strolling i g loag along the streets a stranger tapped us ms on the shou shoulder faer and he said I 1 see you are a str stranger auger here anc and I 1 I 1 want to know if you intend to live lire in this city we told lim him that we had come here with the intention of making this city our home the stranger said saia before you can come here to reside you must first obtain permission from the little dictator of salt lake we asked aske athe the stranger to direct us to the office of this all important personage and he graciously complied with our request on the next day we called on the little bittle dictator Dicta toi and were astounded to behold such an insignificant looking autocrat after we had regained our equilibrium he demanded our name we gave rpm this information then in an insolent mi manner dianner he commanded us to tell him where we were from we told him we came here from chicago with the intention of making this city our home he said before you yon can come here to live you must first fall down upon your knees and worship me I 1 am the little dictator of salt lake we having a desire to remain remain in in this c ity city fell down upon our knees then he began in an exaggerated and aad egotistical manner mann er by saying first I 1 am a tax payer see second I 1 was superintendent of public instruction dowa in old ken ticky tacky third 1 ijjas was formerly president of the pullman palace carco car co but I 1 have hare cast casi all these empty honors aside to become the little dictator of salt lake I 1 want to ten tell you all about my dictatorship in this city I 1 run ran the methodist church and dictated to the minister how to preach and pray I 1 hurl sinners aud and all others headlong into i perdition who refuse to acknowledge me as the little dictator I 1 absolutely run the masonic lodge and I 1 know more inore than all of the members combined I 1 started the baptist aist church and was one of the maen elders and furthermore I 1 own and have hate a perpetual chattel mortgage on en all the members of our race in salt halt lake and when I 1 order them to do anything they all obey me like little children to show you yon that I 1 know what I 1 am talking about there is to ase be a meeting of the fifteenth ward republic club on august and I 1 have ordered au all of my children to abe pres pre ent and I 1 know ow they will M all dome come for they will be afraid to disobey my imy orders but bat it appears appear that when hen the mee g billed to sir order there Chere chereau was aa nw one pye kent but the he said the weather was BO 3 sultry and ana JA f r assy he attend the meeting he aard that tha t I 1 ne 6 tit a T V fc 1 f ma sa s1 f ts r Z 67 ordera s a y v t on i 2 littly Litt i lc V Z i Ht t aff tatar itata L toyal louthe 1 SO i p y workers wor kera that ti unless esslie he J was waa 6 acted P a lc ted w id i a dele g i thice 77 7 7 bubli caw mhd baft ff F k 14 i yc ia would not f A to make any nominations X but when the de legates delegates were a all cho chosen seir to the three conventions the little dictator failed to appear as one of the distinguished delegates he became furious with rap rage and used a great many cuss words when he be real realized iced that the g 0 p y workers were using minas himas a decoy duck but he was patted on the back by some som a of the g C 0 p leaders and they told him that the g 0 p set et us free some thirty years ago and if he would continue to shout and work for the g 0 p that incase the g 0 p was successful he would have the honor of naming six colored men for positions so he prom promised isec 1 all of luie e g 0 p leaders that he W would F work and sound their their praises forever an and d he further her promised them that he would not allow one member of our race to ia vote hotd the democratic ticket and when the BROAD ax made its appearance pe arance on august angus t the little dictator ran to all of the gop leaders and told them that not one colored man in salt lake city would vote the democratic Democrat iii ticket he promised the gop leaders that he would make the editor of the I 1 BROAD ax stop writing against the go gop p he ordered all the members of our race I 1 to stop reading the BROAD ax and he went to an all the business men in this city and told them that they must not advertise in the broad ax ue he further said that all of the colored people in this city belon belonged 9 ed to him and if any of the burkness bu men wanted to continue in business ar and a if they wanted the colored peo people ale to patronize them they must not have anything to do with the editor of BROAD ax he said that we were regarded by the colored people of salt lake as as one ofle of the greatest trai traitors tort on earth just because we would not continue to lick the hand of those who continue td smite us ua now in the name ot of all the gods at once upon what meat doth this our little dictator feed that he has grown so great of lite late he strides this beautiful city like a co colossus lomus and all the rest of the people must mast wal walk under kunder his huge le gsand peep about ourselves s his slaves to be continued |