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Show HI I! ' len tetter. H I Ogden, Utali, May 23, 1902. H Once upon a Lime there lived a man H I whose only, claim to the consideration of H : future generations is that he said some- H f thing. lie said "the American people like H '-! to be humbugged," and he lived to prove it H f with his circus.. His name was Barnum. H I Since his day his epigrammatic classic has H , been tried on the dog by every sort of fakir H and bunco-steerer that the county could pro- D duce. Every state, every county, every city, H" has its Barnum. The particular fakir who : thrives here is a splendid type of political H j I bunco-steerer. He has made a life-long H V study of Barnum. His name is Glasmann. H i H ;i Unless an old dog has new tricks he H' ceases to be an interesting cur. Unless a H ji fakir can keep the public mind attentive to a constantly changing programme there HI" is danger of the fakir becoming a chestnut. Hi Wherefore I say that fakir Bill has H i earned a place on the right hand of Barnum. U lias he not played the people of Ogden for H ji a lot of suckers and the editors down the H fif State for a bunch of monkeys in his alleged Hf retirement from the Standard? How the Hi: fakir-editor-manager winked the other eye HI.;; as he read, and republished, the "farewell H. notices" from country contemporaries in Hi'' which the fakir was held up as a model of HI . honesty and integrity! But the fake pro-Hi pro-Hi L ceed. H 'j H i Bill said a California Bank had his H ,, Standard stock in soak and they refused to H M release the paper to him so he had to re- H S" tire. It was a pathetic story raw in spots Hi but the people like to be humbugged and H i Bill knows what the people like. Of course H y the Standard did not change its policy it H ' still exhaled the Bill odor when comes the announcement, through the Standard, that IBill had obtained his own consent to a morning paper with the Associated Press franchise, and lo! the fakir-editor-Mayor is about to blossom (stinkweed) in the field of journalism. Herein is the fake; and, if the people propose to continue nursing a humbug, hum-bug, the fake will prosper. H ; i There is about as much danger of BUI HI starling a morning paper in opposition to H 1 1 the Standar "i as there is that the hair of an H J I honest man will j?row in the palm of his H'J fi hand. The whole thing is a big bluff only H I I the people of Ogden will not wake up till H I Bill gets away with it. It is well known Hjl ! that the Standard has to send its morals to HI B the laundry occasionally in order, to appear H'fl decent while paying expenses and if two H tt papers are to manage it they will have to H H do with the candidates as the old darkey did HI wittl n's fam0lls raDbit trap "catch 'em HJ comin' catch 'em goin.'" Between the Hl Standard and the Sun, the poor candidates Hit can take their choice of a hold up in the 1 evening or a roast in the morning. Bm If Bill publishes another paper that B means an evening and morning edition from IHt the same stalT and off the same plant His purpose is first a piece of money. He probably figures on selling out one paper to eilher ihe Kearns-Smoot syndicale or the Democrats. So he is taking time by the forelock to be in the field when the time is ripe to humbug the people comes round, ne may have anothr purpose in view. If so his object is to undermine the prestige and business of the Standard so that the stockholders stock-holders will be brought face to face with a paper that is losing money the result is supposed to be that the buncoed stockholders stockhold-ers will say$ "nere Bill, take the stock you are the only man who can make the paper pay we won't stand for any assessments. assess-ments. By these means it is not improbable that even a fakir would justify his grand stand bluff and the people would acclaim him from the house tops. Verily, he is the greatest since Barnum. The Standard in an editorial (mailed from New York) on Wednesday gave Bill and his proposed paper another column ad. The pity of it all is that there are 1 hose who really believe that Bill is not the, present manager of the Standard. That belief will be perpetuated for the reason that when on expose is made the fakir-editor-Mayor will immediately kick up a big dust in some other quarter and the dear public will again do the everlasting humbug act. And don't fear about Bill's resources. He will keep the people staring into the grand stand even if he has to dress Fred Chambers up in cap and bells and placard his expressive expres-sive back with the inscription "Manager of the Ogden Standard." i The really pathetic feature of it all is that Fred stands for it, M M. To Councilman Hendershot: Permit me to say that the people look 'to you for , putting Lester park into a seasonable and attractive condition. I won't say anything more about it now, but Flavins look after that park. If I do not say anything about the Smoot candidacy for the Senate, it is because be-cause there is nothing to say till next week. Reed will have to explain why his announcement announce-ment was followed by a May frost. It is be-Meved be-Meved here that when Kearns said he took no stock in Smoot's declaration it was only one of his Irish bulls. |