| Show INVESTIGATION NEEDED Democratic Committee Hampered I in Sending Out Mail THROWN OFF THE TRAINS SEVERAL PACKAGES FOUl AT THE GLASS WORKS I The Matter Put Before Postmaster Barratt anti An Inquiry Will Follow Fol-low How tie Ileyulilieaii Postmistress Post-mistress at Murray Handles Nail The Democratic state committee has been sending out copies of The Herald Her-ald containing the address adopted at the recent convention to every precinct in the territory I was essential that the address should be in the hands of the local committeemen without unnecessary un-necessary delay but in a number of cases the state committee has been unable un-able to accomplish I Perhaps the following incident may explain the cause of some of the fail ures On Wednesday last the committee sent oub a number of papers containing contain-ing the address Among them was one destined for Vernal On Friday Officer Pratt while looking through the old glass factory for tramps found in one of the furnaces the identical package in ithe same condition as when it lef headquarters and with the address ad-dress plainly written on I Looking about the officer found a large number num-ber of copies containing the address seatbed about The strings on these had been broken but from the number num-ber of papers there must have been two more packages Now this circumstance is easily explained plained The packages had simply been thrown off the train and then carried up to the glass factory perhaps by some tramp When Judge Powers learned of this yesterday he made an investigation into the whole matter arid after laying the case before Postmaster Barratt and making a formal complaint arranged to have a representative of the committee go to the glass factory fac-tory this morning to get the other papers and ascertain the direction on them When this was presented to Captain Wire at the police station he I declined to allow an officer to go out there for such a purpose Comment is unnecessary Worse and lore of I The Republican postmistress at Murray Mur-ray whose name is Mary Jacobson may find that the civil service reform ideas of the administration cannot be so stretched as to take in offensive partisanship What looks like use of office to ad a party was developed the other day when John G Labrum precinct Democratic Demo-cratic chairman went to the Murray postoffice and had delivered to him mail of three weeks back from the county committee a stack of very important im-portant letters that should have been delivered without delay but for some unexplained reason were kept back day after day until it became absolutely necessary to deliver them Notwithstanding Mr Labiurn sent for his mail regularly mai and letters other than those enclosed in the official of cial envelope of the Democratic committee com-mittee were delivered to him The consequences of this were disturbing dis-turbing Chairman Dunbar has been sending letter after latter T Mr L brum and receiving no reply until his patience became exhausted and he concluded that the precinct machine needed oiling very badly There was no communidation and a number of things were neglected An instance of I this is found in the action on Roberts and Oaine Mr Dunbar sent instructions instruc-tions to Mr Labrum on this matter but they were not followed However now all is explained A Republican is holding the office merely ministration by sufferance under a Democratic ad |
