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Show A PACKED ELECTION UNPACKED. Those business and professional men here who as members of the Commercial club are anxious to see that organization take the place in the industrial, in-dustrial, financial and social circles in Salt Lake J so obviously awaiting it, will be interested, no ! doubt, in learning even at this late date, of the I little scheme, it is rumored, was promulgated in J the quiet but none the less persistent effort made to seat C. G. Seelye, the Salt Lake manager of the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph company, on the directorate of the club at the annual election held a week or two ago. After a residence here extending over but a few weeks and at the head of a public service company with which citizens of this community have had more than one controversy, Mr. Seelye sought a place among the governors of the Com- i mercial club. And we do not say "sought" apolo- tl getically, or advisedly. After the nominating JJ committee of the club has selected a member k upon whom the other members of that organization organiza-tion are to vote for a place upon the board of directors, the nominee must be consulted and his consent to run obtained before his name can be balloted upon. j Wo have already expressed our opinion of Mr. i Seelye's lack of taste and judgment in permitting his name to go before the club as a candidate j for one of that organization's governors and now if Mr. Mackintoshes word is to be taken for it Mr. Mackintosh, by the way. being the official j in charge of that section of the Bell concern which was formorly called the Utah Independent Telephone Company not only did Mr. Seelye permit per-mit his name to go up as a candidate, but his associates and subordinates attempted to "pack" the election in what they thought they had every reason to believe would be a successful effort to seat tfieir superior upon the governing board of i the club. To put it in his words, "It is funny Mr. Seelye was not elected; we thought there was no chance of his being defeated because we were down ' there about one hundred and fifty strong during the day, and can hardly understand why he was not one of those named." Mr. Seelye is the manager in charge of the Salt Lake office of the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph company and Mr. Mackintosh is in charge of that division of the system that was formerly the Bell's branch line the Utah Independent Inde-pendent company and for some time before the local Bell concern openly took over the manage- , ment of the Independent (save the word) Mr. Mackintosh was auditor of that concern. Just what is the idea? Is Mr. Seelye's course and that of his asso- i elates here to bo the same in the management I of this division of the M. S. T. & T. Co. as that , which characterized the telephone situation in Denver and other portions of Colorado prior to the time service in that city and state was "universal," and subsequently? I |