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Show I "Why He Should Continue to Mismanage Salt Lake Postoffice. BELIEVES HE IS IMMUNE FROM PUNISHMENT Sacks Containing Copies of The Tribune Are Sent to Wrong Train. II .Another evidence of the elllcloncy of l Suit Lnke'n postmaster Is shown by the I fact that on Februnrj 22 a tie sack con-I con-I tainlng a large number of copies of Tho I Bait Iake Dally Tribune was sent to tho I local olllco at o:55 In the morning for i dlbputch on the S o'clock San Pedro train, I; No Handling- Necessary. in the pouch were papers for Tribune l patrons at Suntaquln, N'ephl. Pleasant Ij Grove, Payson. Fairfield. TopllrT, Mun-i Mun-i nlng and Mercur. They wore mailed un-I un-I dor a label such as used bv The Tribune I and approved by the local postolllce. I There was absolutely no handling of this I mall necessary In the local postoftlce ex-' I ctptlng to weigh it. I Sent to Wronp Train. II Instead of being sent to the San Pedro I Jt was dispatched to tho Rio Grande de-I de-I pot and carried to Provo. The clerks of I the Rio Orande discovered tho error and I woro obliged to return nil of these papers to the Salt Lake office, delaying them ! twenty-four hours or more. Fault in Salt Lake Office. The fault was absolutely with the local postofnee. Yet Postmaster Thomas goes around Salt Lake complaining about criticism criti-cism of the mismanagement of his olilce; 4clls his friends that he Is being persecuted, perse-cuted, and to letters which are written him for relief from such outrageous service ser-vice he replies in abusive language. Postmaster Does Not Care. Tho Tribune makes this announcement announce-ment as an explanation to Its patrons. Complaint to the Postmaster Postmas-ter Is unavailable. Ho doesn't care. Subscribers of The Tribune who miss their papers should not find fault with , tho railway mail service, the delivering postmasters, or the rural mnll carriers. Neither should they attribute tho error to i The Salt Lake Tribune. The Tribune delivers de-livers its edition to tho Suit Lako postofnee post-ofnee promptly. Deluy is invariably traceable to the Indifference or incompetency incompe-tency of some of Postmaster Thomas's employees. No Excuse for Error Cited. I mere was absolutely no excuse for the 1 error mentioned herewith, but Postmaster 4 Thomas has a pull. Unlike other post- masters he Is immune from punishment. I Though he carried on the payrolls a col-1 col-1 orcd newspaper man. who did not peril per-il form a minute's labor In the postofnee in his life, in order to reimburse himself j for a bit of misplaced confidence. Post-I Post-I master Thomas secures for this net a 'J complete bill of health. I Though he carried his son on the pay-3 pay-3 rolls while the son was attending the Salt Lake High school, no postolllce Inspector J "as had the temerity to recommend his i removal. Other Derelictions of Duty. I ,"BJ,J10 pnld 10 ''Is brother-in-law 1 .V-M of Govemment funds, of which he did not earn a dollar, and to a daughter I ?L(3- ?. tne Postmnstcr's closest friends J Jf4i while she was on a pleasure Junket In "' 'u not earn a oolinr or this, Post- Ijl master Thomas's pull at Washington Is too powerful to disturb him. Ho wns forced to turn over to the Government Gov-ernment $9Til.71 to cover these unlawful jmyments, but he goes unwhlpped of Justice Jus-tice It Is not Important, either, to those who are looking after the postmasters post-masters pull that he suppressed a short-uge short-uge In one of his stations, and sustained a drunkard and dissolute head of department- Neither Is It Important that he Ignores an order of the Civil Service commission to separate from the service a niece of ono of his particular friends. Due to the Head. To the patrons of the Salt I-nke post-office: post-office: If your mall is delayed or abused I do not blame this fact to tho carriers or I lo postolllce employees. As a rulo they nro as obliging and as competent as will be found in any city. The sin Is not theirs. It is In the Indifference or incompetency in-competency of tho man who Is paid to organize them. Somo of the departments 1 of the postolllce are run as well as could be expected. The mailjng department doubtlessly contains competent cmplovces but the supervision of it and the execution execu-tion of the work Is something outrageous. Postmaster Knows About It. Postmaster Thomas knows about this Ho has been asked to correct It. Ho rc- piles with abuse. In this respect Postmaster Post-master Thomas is a much abler man than he is ns an olilclal. His blunders havo cost Tho Tribune hundreds of dollars. Ho is doubtless glad of It, and will see that other errors cost Tho Tribune hundreds of dollars more He has no fear, lie Is j immune from criticism, j The Public Be Damned. He has committed a dozen acts of recklessness or Indifference or worse, since he was first Installed as postmaster of Salt Lako, elthor of which Justified his removal. But he was retained. His pull Is overpowering. The public be damned, I bo long as he Is on the ealary roll. But there will be another story soon. |
