Show 1 Caught in His Moment of Greatness l l I rs J f m. m f fo foDEL Ol DEL TA h I I I I 1 However illustrious the rest of his reign may have been the moment of greatness for Governor Ex-Governor William Spry that will go down into history will be that moment when he made his famous proclamation for Delta I Its It's all in the historian What I would Paul Revere have been but for tor i his historian l Iere Merely y a yelling plow plowboy plowboy boy giving an alarm What would The Charge of the Light Brigade have been but a canter across lots except for Its historian And had the Ex said I predict predict pre pre- dict it would have been subject to human uncertainty It might not have predicted But when he stood there and easily said In his official capacity Just as he Is la labeled by our photographer who took the snap I proclaim why he put the Great Seal of the State of Utah on it ft and what else can that people of Delta do but live up to It I Many that day thought It was I merely political fence building and the opposite party felt hilarious up their tunics that he should slip up that way on the greasewood flat but the true well historian historian well it is not the province of the historian to take the credit on himself lf The fact that we brought his excellency out and found him to himself as I It were puffs us up not a bit Well We'll go right righton on in our usual modest way saying the good things we always do of Delta unaffected and b by bythe bythe the mite of ot glory that attaches to us pursuing the even tenor of our wa way far tar from the madding throngs throng's tumultuous tum- tum applause If It It was a happy utterance on th the i part of the Ex Gov wasn't It a happier happier hap hap- pier moment that his historian was wa there The lives of great men oft ott remind us We can make our own sublime If It It proclaiming we can say things That comes true in after time |