| Show SUCCESSOR HAt IS PARK I It Is Said on n Good Authority Executive Will Re Resign ign If Manto Man Manto Manto to His Liking Is Permitted to Step Into His Shoes ID TO BE DELAYING T J FINAL MOVE Several Persons er Aside From Commissioners Are Men- Men Mentioned if yi Place Place Park Park to Stay in Office This Year v IT I T became ll 3 yesterday esterd r from L sources apparently most authoritative tire tic that tIn the chief f reason that is delaying de tie- e- e laying laying- the r resignation of i Mayor l Sain C 0 C. Park from hi his civil c yil office haggling 11 over the thc 00 J matter UH of ot a successor or It 3 wa stated tat that the mayor himself would like to Iva hAre hae e a say as to who Is Isto isto Isto to step tep In Into to his shoes Furthermore itIs ItIs it itis is st stated ted O OH ot t ame authority that the city ners are willing for 01 political r JU said sald fT reasons being the fact that ha Utah legislature which meets ii h next year ear will bea be bo Republican U a a. Republican forthe for tor forthe the post Oth Otherwise lse It was argued a n nIe Ie Republican legislature might take tako It into its head bend that flint the commission form Corm formo of o government is a failure Arc re There Thero is the law which says as that the tho m man n succeeds to time tile post Jost of pr c commissioner must mu t have 0 been on the C commission and for tor that reason a number of or names of or persona eron not now no ottee olec ar arb aro mentioned as among the time po as ah spoil s soon p asRi as asan an any Ri t J ia r reached ached on tho t part of oC th tho city cUr on as to who will tollo J Ua or Among Anong J csc aro lr T Ii S N J Thomas Thomas' a d Jo Jos s seph Lippman Reasons assignee assigned by b those In the know for the mayors mayor's desire to stop step out of or office at this particular time are aro several tho the chief chic one being that his Ills father Boyd Hoyd od Park Pari wishes him to at once the thc personal supervision super simper vision and amid management of oC tho the Boyd Hoy Park Parl Jewelry company compan It Is Iii held that It t would woul be bo Impo impossible for tor one man to todo todo do ho justice to the duties l of ot that post post- tion lion and of ot mayor maor of oC a cH city tIme the size of ot Salt Lake La o at nt the same timo Mayor Park an and several of ot the thc city commissioners denied yesterday that the matter r o of a successor ha had come to 10 the point of oC being discussed sed even cn In Informally Informally Informally In- In formally b by the ell city as a body It Jt is 18 not true trite declared Mayor Park somewhat coldly when asked to explain the time status tatus of ot affairs at pres pres- ent I t 1 will iII bo ho ma mayor or all this year he lie added Is the public to un understand that when tho the year cor expires eX you ou will lesl ie- ie sign sl n suggested sug his questioner No co o Definite You lou aro are to understand nothing of the sort replied Mr 11 Park I 1 will not say whether or not I will be mayor maor longer than that If It I want to resign I will and mind If IC I do not I will iiI not When I do o resign I will make male It public at once As to these rumors about m my resignation I have nothing nothing- to so say except ox- ox what I said tho the other da day That I do tb not miot Intend to resign at this time and If It I do decide to resl resign I will callIn call callIn callIn In representatives of oC all the newspapers newspapers news news- papers and tell them about it It Mayor Park Parl denied that his father Is Ss Ill m In iii Los Angeles lie He Is merely ol old sal said ho he This comment followed the mn mayors mayor's ors Initial declaration that yc yesterdays yesterday's rumors rumor's were iere without foundation Mr Park suggested that he had been in business and of ot Salt for fOl twenty years mayor maor Lal Lake c ten months and mal intimated that his private affairs were not suffering from his incumbency of oC office Mayor lirk asserted that this was the first he had heard of oC this new re report report re- re port about Intended resignation It may nul bob up from time line to time he said but It makes no nu difference what ahat people say ar I 1 will keep on doing what 1 I think best Single le lc Comment The Time only comment the mayor would m make Io on the time sU suggestion that thai ho desired to have hao a say as to his hl successor sor In office If he lie resigned was waK to tho the effect that If it ii hu lIu did resign n h he would step down own an and other othel members of the city commission would fill the time vacancy th that t I 1 would have hac I cant can't see ace anything anything any any- thing thinS to 10 do o with It he ho said Mayor Park lark a asserted that this phase of ot the gossip relating to whom the time lightning lightning- would strike c was all aJl new to toI him himI I have ha not discussed this matter with an any of the gentlemen mentioned he ho h said bald The mayor an and the ho commissioners loners of or streets finance and waterworks were all a unit In Iii denying that tho the matter of ot c c. probable successor or hUll hud been boon dh discussed among them their either cither In Individually In- In or at al the tho called so-called informal informal in in formal sessions of or the thc commission from which the time newspaper men al are ex eX- eX ci elude u fled |
