Show THE GREAT G. A. R. The G. A. convention this the greatest convention ever held in There are more strangers in our city than ever anil they have all been well taken care The parade was the best and the most ever given by the old Bait Lake City is the best city in United States for parades of that no other city has the broad well paved Penn- sylvania D. C. and Broad Street are the only business streets in the United States that equals Every old soldier had a good word for Utah and her kind hospitable One very prominent G. A. R. lady from near heard T. lecture on Utah and the Mormons in Hoggs Methodist Church in in She said after she heard that lecture she thought that Salt Lake City was a hot bed of polygamists and and that on every fourth of July they hung the stars and stripes at half to insult the that Utah's schools were of the very poorest and that they all taught polygamy and that our houses were old adobe shacks with two or more front This lady is living with a very prominent Mormon family here during her She has the best of everything and- it is all She further stated that if Iliff should ever deliver another anti-Utah lecture in she would get up arid call him The convention will do more allay prejudices and the falsehoods of the Tribune and the Ministerial Association than any other one the Smoot investigation not The Tribune's extra ef fort to injure Utah this we will express our views on in our nest One of the things that marred the parade was some would be from who did not know that the civil was is over or that Jeff Davis is To up strife and bitterness and insult the Southern people who viewed the those caught a half breed leghorn rooster tied on a long pole marked it Jeff Davis and paraded through the streets as a coarse untimely Tribune good will and loving greetings and is the object of the G. A. R. |