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Show Hon. O. J. Salisbury. 9 The news of the death of Mr. Salisbury was . H not unexpected, and still it is a great shock, it H is but a few days since he was on the street, and to those who did not know his condition there H was no sign that the groat change was so near. I He has been a citizen of Salt Lake for twenty jH years. From the first day of his coming he has . H been a prominent citizen, for his fame had pre- H coded him. He was one of the pathfinders of the H West. His first work was to draw the connecting ' links of steel together that first ' bound in close . H alliance the West to the East. The story of his I life would, a little enlarged upon, make the his- H tory of this West. He scaled its mountains; he I iH I traversed its deserts; ho helped to open its mines; from first to last ho by example and prac tice was an inspiration to mon to .work, to hope, j to fulfill Choir duties, to live upright lives. Ho j. has been true to his country all his life. He be- lioved that a land which; opened such opportuni ties to its children should have around it the sup ! porting arms of ev6.s 1 those children. He believed the Republican ' party had loafs defects than any other political party; hence he was an intense Republican. He nevor faltered in his allegiance al-legiance to it except In 189G. In that year he believed be-lieved the best interests of the whole country deli de-li mandod the election of a Democratic Preside u !! And hosWas right, from every standpoint thai any Western man could view the situation. But that did not change his principles in the least. There has been much in the politics of Utah that grieved him, but all the time he believed that the evils ' here might bo cured without a political revolution. revolu-tion. This he worked for. It was the State oi his adoption; he wanted to love it as much as ho had always loved native land. He hoped that while yet alive he would see the clouds break and roll away; that when at last his work should be ' finished he would see Utah so redeemed, regenerated regen-erated and disenthralled, that he would be serene In his confidence that his children would have hero an oven field in which to strive for fortunes and high names, j His hold upon his friends was very strong. They have long hoped that they would see the very highest honor that a State can give, bestowed be-stowed upon him. We believe that if he desired that honor, u was more for those he loved than for himself, i Personally he loved his homo better than any ' spot on earth. There was no happier home in i all the land than his. It was a home of perfect j affection and absolute confidence; The grief in ! that homo now is most utiable. It has been smitten with repeated sorrows. One loved one after another has been taken, and now the head, I ho who all the rest leaned upon, has been takon, , and the grief is unspeakable. 1 1 God pity the Btrlcken wife and children. God 1 1 rest the soul of him who has gone. |
