| Show PRESS UTAH ASSOCIATION EDWIN LITTLEFIELD Ogden Standard Born March1837 Died June 1911 Installed in Hall of Fame at Salt Lake City 1976 Indolence in politics is akin to treachery as the selfish indolence of good men furnishes the most effective opportunity for ambitious bad men to accomplish their nefarious purposes The indolence of good men and the treachery of bad men are equally dangerous and unless both are finally overcome by the awakened intelligence and virtue of the people we cannot expect good government recent editorial on the post-Watergate excesses in government and breaches of faith by high-level officials Not by 83 years These far-reaching words are fromSeptember 15 1892 editorial in the Ogden Standard Their author Edwin Albert Littlefield who was in 1976 installed in the Utah Newspaper Hall of Fame Acting editor of the Standard in those days was Major origin of the always-used title is ob scure Littlefield sitting in during the campaign for territori al delegate to Congress of the paperpublisher-editor Frank Cannon It wasRepublican newspaper no question about it No SINCERE his caps Republican will boltregular party nomination Littlefield editorialized In another he admitted that the Republican party in Utah and its presidential candidate Benjamin Harrison hadhard fight on their hands against the Democrats and Liberals He urged unaligned voters to see the light of making up their minds adding Inrepublican government persona practical politics is the price of civil liberty and the protection of the law 578 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
