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Show FALL 2013 UHQ pp 304-385_UHQ Stories/pp.4-68 9/16/13 1:25 PM Page 318 UTAh hISTOrICAL QUArTErLy carriage from the Union Depot, ahead of a long procession of dignitaries through the streets of Ogden. Roosevelt spoke briefly, and then Secretary of the Navy Moody repeated his promise to name a battleship after Utah. The entourage formed up again and departed west on Twenty-Fifth Street to the Union Depot, where Roosevelt’s party boarded the train for the trip up Weber Canyon en route to Wyoming.48 On November 5, 1903, two days after the election that saw Glasmann chosen for his second term as mayor of Ogden, Frank Francis received the news that a proposed newspaper, the Morning Examiner, had won the Associated Press (AP) morning dispatch franchise for Ogden. The Morning Examiner, announced Francis, “would be a Democratic newspaper” and start publication January 1, 1904.49 However, four months later, Glasmann ended up buying the infant paper because of a low subscription rate and mounting debt. Francis returned to the managing editor position at the Standard. Glasmann decided to run both papers while he searched for a suitable buyer of the Morning Examiner. In 1904, midway through his second term as mayor, Glasmann became an active candidate for the U.S. Senate. At the last minute, former Congressman George Sutherland threw his hat in the ring—even though, dissembling, he had suggested to Glasmann that he would not be a candidate. The following January, Glasmann knew his candidacy lacked support and removed his name from consideration; always the tactician, he considered this move the “nicest” thing to do. The Utah State Legislature elected Sutherland as senator. Though the Standard eulogized the loss by saying, “the wise man does not wait to be kicked out of the road,” it devastated Glasmann.50 Once again the rift between the Ogden liberals and the more conservative Republicans in Salt Lake City was evident. In the end, the conservative faction of the party won out, dominated by Reed Smoot and a growing faction of Utahns that crossed over to the Republican Party, but retained the conservatism of their nineteenth-century Democratic heritage.51 Glasmann was left to his next move. In late July 1905, he announced he would not run for a third term as Ogden’s mayor.52 Then in April 1906, on a trip to Washington, D.C., Glasmann stopped by the White House to see President Roosevelt. When he returned to Ogden on May 3, a reporter from the Inter-Mountain Republican asked Glasmann if he planned to apply for the open position of postmaster of Ogden. Glasmann replied that he most likely would.53 48 “Ogden, a Radiant City, Greets the Nation’s Chief,” Ogden Standard, May 29, 1903. “A Morning Paper for Ogden,” Ogden Standard, November 5, 1903. 50 “Sutherland the Senator,” Ogden Standard, January 11, 1905. 51 For background on the Federal bunch, see Jan Shipps, “Utah Comes of Age Politically: A Study in the State’s Politics in the Early Years of the Twentieth Century,” Utah Historical Quarterly 35, no. 2 (Spring 1967): 99–100. 52 “The Political Pot,” Ogden Standard, July 25, 1905. 53 “Glasmann Returns,” Inter-Mountain Republican (Salt Lake City), May 3, 1906. 49 318 |
