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Show Ml H . BRGUGH RECALLS DAY OF Mrs. Cora S. Brough, widow of Charles M. Brough, the first Republican Republi-can mayor of Ogden, 1893-94, and mother of Charles Hillman Brough, the now governor of Arkansas, formerly former-ly a popular Ogden youth, has been visiting friends here this week and graciously granted an interview to a representative of the Standard at tho home of Dr. and Mrs. Samuel L. Brick, 460 Twenty-fourth street, where she was guest of honor at a largely attended reception. Mrs. Brough is a charming matron, with a voice as melodious as silver chime when sho talks animatedly, or onjoys a laugh. "I am an Ogden wom-au," wom-au," she said proudly, "claiming Ogden Og-den as my home, for I lived hero twen. ty years. I used to know every man, woman and child In this city, and now may heaven bless all of them, lavishly, continuously, for this is thobest people peo-ple on earth." Old Friends Remembered. Turning to one of her callers, Mrs. Brough said. "You remind me strange- i ly of William H. West, whom I knew i well when he was employed in the 1 postoff Ice, many years ago. Was he a relation?" The young man said the reference was to his father. Mrs. Brough was highly ploased and Inquired In-quired eagerly concerning Mrs. West, her daughters, and many other old friends. "Oh, how I love Ogden and its people," she said. "The poet wrote of people like those of Ogden: 'How'or I it be, it seems to me, 'tis only noble to be good; kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood.' Brough's Great Victory. Replying to questions concerning Governor Brough, his mother said: "Charley's hosts of friends here doubtless will be pleased to know that ho is at the boglnning of a great career. Ho may be "United States senator, If he should ;lesire it, but tho people of Arkansas also the best poo-pie poo-pie on earth evidently desire him to servo as governor until the great constructive legislation for which he fought during tho campaign is smoothly smooth-ly in operation He fought for prohibl- nun, lyuuiau auiuafjc, jjvuu luaui) iiuu other progressive measures, and all of theso things were made realities by the pledge-keeping legislature. "Everyone In Arkansas Is proud of tho forinor Ogden boy. He Is truly a great and noble man. He served thirteen years as professor of econom les In the "University of Arkansas and endeared himself to the common people. peo-ple. Ills heart always beats in unison uni-son and sympathy with the great hoart of tho common people, which is the secret of his success. His Ogdon friends doubtless will be pleased to know that he soon is to bo made a thirty-third dogreo Mason. Arkansas'o Advance. "Arkansas Is advancing rapidly to real greatness," said Mrs. Brough "It has a bone-dry prohibition law, never to be repealed, and it prohibits, too. The women won a magnificent victory in the passage by the legislature legisla-ture of tho equal suffrage law. Tho measure had powerful opposition, of course, because so many in the South fear the result of enfranchising hosts of unpropared negro women. But. tho fear seems unreasonable. The venal vote of the male negro always has been easily neutralized, and the venal vote of the female negro will be treat-od treat-od In tho samo manner. If imperatively necessary for tho public good. "Arkansas has vast areas of unoccupied unoc-cupied lands, rich as the Valloy of the Nile; homes for millions, amid scenery scen-ery of surpassing beauty, with mountains moun-tains and valleys, hillB and plains, everything desirable in an Ideal homeland. home-land. All Democrats There. "Everybody is a Democrat in Arkansas," Ar-kansas," she said, laughingly "Thero arc, of course, great factions, or divisions, divi-sions, among the Democrats, but thoy all unite upon constructive legislation I for the public good The negro vote, H the necessity of maintaining white M supremacy in all things, keeps Arkan- jH sas solidly Democratic and it will ever JH be so, I think." ' H Mrs. Brough said the Governor mar- M rled a Kentucky girl eight years ago -l and that Providence so far has left vH them childless. She said this in a M tone of keen regret. H Governor Brough at this time, sho H said, has speaking engagements all H over the South, which he will com- H pleto in time to attond the constltu- H tional convention at Little Bock in jH Greetings From Governor. H The Governor was educated at Og- H den and was graduated from the High H school. She said he remembers all H of his old friends and frequently talks H of them and of the halcyon days of JH boyhood in Ogden. He left here when H he was 21 years old and is now just H turning forty. He lived here twenty IH years from infancy. IH On his first Western trip, Mrs. H Brough said, the Governor undoubted- jH ly will visit Ogdon to enjoy a reunion H with old friends. H Mrs. Brough went to Salt Lako and H will continuo her journey to the coast H Sunday. She resides at 401 South IH Grand avenue, Los Angeles. This Is JH her homecoming trip, after an absence 'H in Arkansas of about a year. She jH asked Tho Standard to extend greet- IH ings to all old friends, in behalf of jH Governor Brough and herself, and to .H say "Au Revoir, But Not Goodbye." H |
