Show iANENT I THE SCRAMBE Latest News Concerning the Federal Appointments i LAND OFFICE IS THE PLUM I AND I LOOKS AS IF EEPCT I SOW2SS HAS I Se veral Candidates A In Line I With Hobbs 3 Close Second Dennis 2iclinor Making All the Boys Hard to Catch When It I Comes t the Attorneyship Sash Said to 3e Leading Man In the r13 Wholl Get the jcstoffice or How 3 3aii Prom Kaysville Stiuck 3 JobV 2Ir jLannans Mission sion I tlC Eat He Will Get the Wooden Ear te Wooe A great many people in the state are wondering what disposition is to be made regarding the federal appointments appoint-ments which remain to be filled and for the purpose of disseminating come nformation which is presumed to be is accurate as any which can be obtained tamed at this time The Herald has been at some pains to collect the following owing for the information of all concerned con-cerned I would seem from intelligence acquired ac-quired recently that there will be one appointment made before the beginning begin-ning of the new year and one direct afterward The position of United State attorney for the district of Utah is liable to come up almost any time and no one need be surprised if the announcement is made within the next few days although it may be delayed for a couple of weeks The receiver of the land office will beheld be-held off until after the holidays as the I present incumbent does not finish his term until the 20th day of January THE LAND OFFICE I The land office Is beyond doubt the most important of ail these The candidates can-didates are legion To begin with there is Colonel Percy Sowers who is after it in tins way that he has told the president he would like a federal position here and when asked which one said he preferred the land olhce This conversation between McKinley and Colonel flowers took place sometime some-time in September last Sowers has made no application He is an old time friend of the president and was at one time a resident of Canton He called on McKinley when he was at home In September and held this conversation con-versation with him Frank Hobbs is the man whom Sec rotary Bliss would like to see appointed appoint-ed Hobbs has an acquaintance with land office matters which makes him especially desirable in the eyes of the head of the interior department I w ill be remembered that some time last fall J 1 Stoutt of the Utah National went to Washington to see about getting get-ting the office of the land department removed to his bank building Incidental I buldini dentally he suggested the name of Chare Post to the secretary of the interior for the place Soon afterward J Post received information from Washington Wash-ington that his name was Dennis That I BUss had a man and his name was I Hobbs apo t gave up the fight right then and there Editor Wtte of Ogden former of the Press is an applicant also and has gone to Washington to boost himself for the place He has the backing of Senators Frye and Hale of Maine with whom he is personally acquainted but those who Imovv say they will avail him nothing as he has no show I f Editor Clove of Provo is backed by Arthur Brown but he too is declared out of it because it is a fight between Hobbs and Sowers Now the matters stands just this way Sowers is as close a personal friend ot McKinley as one could wish to b Their acquaintance is not a casual one but one whIch has covered several years during which time they have been in contact with each other Those who know say that when Bliss takes the name of Hobbs to the president presi-dent he will say he has a personal friend whom he wants to appoint to the place and that will settle it But there is still another Richmond in the field Wesley K Walton secretary secre-tary of the state land board has the endorsement and backing of the organization I organ-ization of which he is a member including in-cluding the governor and the secretary of state He hn also been endorsed I of the state bj the executive committee committee and thinks he is in it but from all indications he is not That sizes up the situation on the land boa matter DISTRICT ATTORNEY C O Whitteroore Pennel Chering ton Lindsay Rogers and Dennis C Eichnor are the candidates for this place Whittemore stands no more show according to statements made I than a snowball would of retaining its rotundity in Lucifer summer garden He is out if it entirely before the race begins left at the pole as it were Lindsay Rogers isnt a bit better off He is a national committeeman to be sure but that ends it He has a show of influence behind him but there are more men with hammer out knocking him than one can count on the ends of ones fingers and all that jarring counts Pennel Cherrington has a host behind I be-hind him in the person of his father I Judge Cherrington a lifelong friend of the president Judge Cherrrngton is s lut11 working hard in the interests i of his I son and may make a showing rut dont let any one delude yob with the idea that Dennis C Eichnor isnt coming down I th stretch like 3 whirlwind whirl-wind That young man has ben doing some work He isn t the slow old person per-son the balance of these ordinary candidates can-didates takehim to be Dennis came from Pennsylvania where head cheese I ponhaus souse apple butter cider apple sass and other brain food are staple articles of diet His gray matter mat-ter i well developed and while the balance of them lIve been hiring brass bands to plaj under their windows win-dows at night D C has been pegging along with a teraistency worth o the Pennsylvania Dutch grandsires tow I to-w he points with pride I Back in Johnstown is a man named Endslej who is a brotherinlaw of Abner McKinley He has known Dennis Den-nis for 20 years He didnt do a thing hut get Abner one day and the two of then went down to Washington and called on the chief magistrate o this great segregation of states and while j lily w en there they talked An 1 they talked Fichncr and talked Liclnir hard They showed up Dennis record as a Republican and the president was very well impressed with it He told Abner so he told Endsley so and when the pair came away from the White House where McKirle1 Eats his Irleals Abner said to Endahy En sIt s-It 1 A old boy ill kt yoU a small bottle and a large 1 rut bird your man Ectb that place 1 And there you have the attorney shipNow Now to the ro5toffice THE POSTOFFICE Every ore hams who ants the I j q1 t c at the f irtLtln ii the term < r 1 the tole Mr Lairatu Tlixe is Nash and Smith and last but bj nome no-me ns k ast our 1 n J J Cn nealJ I breith has the l < nrcnwnt < cf the r < oj nitfl awl 1 unsud 8tc c < r J nitt t r3er d ater a Iw s n I With the cute bus urst Hop hi0h man out last ash > horses I T I is understood that Georges lather I j also endcrces him for the place Well I thats all right so far as it goes but I there aip others For instance heres Gieenewaid with lat Quay and Boies Penrose and Congressman Stone and 1 the entire Mercantile club of Phiia I delphia behind him fortified with 3 I letter from Lindsay Rogers hoping he I will be successful with letters from bankers in this city and with letters I from Arthur Brown and several other i old people besides having one or two of the rejuvenated and reunited state I committees signatures together with the endorsement of the committee a a unit one and indivisible I Nash has support from the east and I among others is George K Nash the I chairman of the executive committee I of the state committee of Ohio and they do say that hid it not been for I George K Nash in this last campaign Mark Hanna would have stood no more show of being made a senator j this winter than he would to have been appointed a member of the college of I cardinals I George K Nash has gone to Hanna and McKinley and told them he wants I the Salt Lake postoflice for his cousin and there are many who say that when George K Nash asks the president I presi-dent for anything he can come very near getting the same Mr Woodford United States minister to Spain who I is very close to McKinley and a warm I friend of Nash gave the latter a good sendoff before he left for Madrid And there is the postoflice scramble LANNAN GOES EAST I Mr Lannan has gone east on a mission I mis-sion Said mission it is understood u V S k 0 = AL5 qLp2 tis h1 I l J j i1jkk iT I 4 1 II I I is to confer with the president and make identically the same ertures I which he and George Q Cannon made when the were east together viz that i McKinley will permit the state i committee to make the selections for I the few remaining offices they will turn down the juvenile Cannon eiect I a nonpartisan legislature which will I send George Q Cannon back there as senator pledged to stand by McKinley even to the endorsement of the gold I standard if need be Those on the inside declare Lannan will get the wooden ear from the I head of this government that they I are loaded for him down there and the I freeze Bishop got will be a hot bath rap m in comparison to what Mr P 1r will I receive that tie acton of the Tribune in supporting Bryan will never be forgiven I for-given that its manager will have to bring forth fruit meet for repentance and all that sort of thing eie he gets I on the inside again GREW IS NEUTRAL Registrar McGrcw of the land office is getting to be quite an important person these days He is frequently consulted by the aspirants Some of them have gone so far as to presume they were intimate enough with him to get his endorsement on their peti tions but to all such Mac has turned I a deaf ear He isnt signing any petitions pe-titions but is attending strictly to business I Mac is a old bo wise boy He always I was He demonstrated that when ha I got the appointment |