Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-09-02 | Page 16 | German-American Indorse Buschmann

GERMAN-AMERICANS INDORSE BUSCHMANN Guslave Busohmann, who recently announced an-nounced himself a candidate for a city commlssloncrshlp, Is being strongly Indorsed In-dorsed by German-American buB'Jness men in the city. U was announced yesterday that thirty of the most prominent Gorman-Americans had already Indorsed Mr. Buschmann's petition, and assured him that they would do everything possible for htm. M. R. Pratt Is the latest candidate for n city commlssloncrahip. Mr. 'Pratt has been a resident of the city for forty-five years, and this is the first times that lie has been a candidate for a political office. Ho has given considerable nttention to water supply matters. The Socialists f.re arranging 'io hold a meeting, the latter part of the week to discuss the matter of holding a. city convention con-vention and nominating candidates for the city offices. It is generally understood under-stood that the majority of the party favors fa-vors a convention. C. B. Stevens, deputy city auditor, iB tho first man to announce his 'candidacy for the chief position, now held by W. H. Shearman. Mr. Stevens said yesterday yester-day that, in view of Lite fact that Mr. Shearman had determined to become a candidate for commissioner. hf. bad decided de-cided to enter the raco. The only other men mentioned in connection with tho auditorshlp at this time are, Herman Green and Frank GOdbe. Mr'. Stevens has been connected with the auditor's office of-fice for eight years. City Auditor Shearman, whoMsfR candidate candi-date for city .commissioner, has two strong petitions ready for filfrg. Many women have attached their names to one of the petitions. Among the prominent business men who have slgnetl for Mr. 8hearman are M. H. Walker, rJephl L. Morris. W. S. McCornick, T. W. Boycr, John C. Cutler, M. H. Kriebvjl, J. TO. Galllgber, Henry Cohn. D. A. Callahan. R. C. Gcmmoll, David Mattson, Matthew Cullen, Fred J. Leonard, Lester D. Freed. A. G. Mclntyre. Henry Catraw, J. B. Morton, E. G. O'Donnell. Dana "T, Smith, A. J. Charon. W. J. Kalloran, ' Herman Bamberger. Charles F. Murphyx. W. R. Hutchinson and W Mont Forri.