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Show FALL 2013 UHQ pp 304-385_UHQ Stories/pp.4-68 9/16/13 1:25 PM Page 324 UTAh hISTOrICAL QUArTErLy At his funeral, the men who represented opposite ideologies, including Eldredge and Francis, served as pallbearers. The funeral was held at the overflowing Ogden Tabernacle on 22nd Street and Washington Avenue. It seemed in life he drew as many people to his political rallies, but death silenced his oratory. His was an unfinished life. William Glasmann’s sons, Roscoe and Abe Glasmann, carried on with the Ogden Standard under the mentorship of Eldredge and Francis. Four years later, in the spring of 1920, the Ogden Standard and the Morning Examiner merged to for m the Ogden Standard-Examiner, with Abe Glasmann as publisher, Jody Eldredge as general manager. Francis was given a leave of absence to follow in his friend’s footsteps, serving as Ogden’s new mayor. To understand argument was to understand William Glasmann. He tried to argue issues and not bring personalities into an ad hominem fight. He was persistent when he knew the facts were in his favor. He was a gentleman and maintained a calm, yet intense demeanor in an argument with political adversaries. At times he filled with righteous indignation when he knew he was “dead to rights”; Glasmann was at his weakest when he encountered maliciously obvious falsehoods, often resorting to sarcasm to demonstrate the fallacies of his adversaries. Above all, however, he remained mindful of public decorum: whether he was arguing as a silver Republican, Speaker of the House, Ogden City mayor, postmaster, or private citizen, he never lost his cool. Glasmann was, indeed, the consummate politician. 324 |
