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Show WILSON NAMES I NOBLE WARRUM I AS POSTMASTER I Senate Will Probably Confirm H Nomination Next Week; Utah Senators Will Of- I fer No Opposition. H APPOINTMENT ENDS I DEMOCRATIC CONTEST I City Recorder Will Tender I Resignation Soon; Sue- H cessor to Municipal H Office Undecided. H Noble Warrum was todv nominated for postmaster of Salt Laho City by President Woodrow Wilson to succeed former Governor Arthur li. Thomas, whose term as postmaster fpired last Monday. Action 011 the appointment is expected b- tho senate early next week. The senators from Utah will offer no opposition to the confirmation of Mr. Warrum s nomination and it is thought that there will be no opposition from any source. Mr. Warrum is at present city re- . corder. He will probably tender his resignation immediately to take effect at the pleasure of the commiagiou, though it is probable that he will ask that the resignation be accepted with-in with-in a week or ten days. With the an-nouncoment an-nouncoment of Mr. Warrum 's appoint-ment appoint-ment a number of candidates to sue- JM cced him. as city recorder have become active in urging their candidacies. The appointment of Mr. Warrum as postmaster of Salt Lake ends au inter-esting inter-esting contest for the place that has occupied the attention of local Demo-erats Demo-erats for sevoral months. D. C. Dun-bar Dun-bar was the principal opponent of Mr. Warrum for tho place. Mr. Dunbar had the indorsement of tho Salt Lake county Democratic committee and scv-oral scv-oral Democrats of local and national prominence, including some of the members of the United States sonate. Indorsed Candidacy. Those who indorsed the candidacy of Mr. Warrum included National Com-mittccmau Com-mittccmau W. It. Wallace, Democratic Stato Chairman S. R. Thurman. Demo-cratic Demo-cratic Country Chairman T. F. Thomas, Mathonihah Thomas and T. D. Johnson, recently Democratic candidates for con-gress; con-gress; Frank K. Nebekor, former na-tional na-tional committeeman; the lato Judgo O. W. Powers and a number ,of other IH local Democrats of prominence. Unit-cd Unit-cd States Senators Thomas of Colorado, Kern and Shively of Indiana and "Vice IH President Marshall aro'said to havo boon activo in urging Mr, Warrum 's appointment. IJ If the confirmation of the appoint- ment is made within the next weak it fl will probably be another week before tho commission is received by Mr. War-rum War-rum and the bond approved. It is not probable that tho now postmaster will take offico beforo April 1. Former Gov- jl ernor Arthur L. Thomas, who has been tM postmaster of Salt Lake' City for more vM than sixteen years, completed his term of ofueu on last Monday, but will re- fM I main as postmaster until his successor qualifies for tho placo. At present tho salary of the postman- tcr of Salt Lake is $3900. On July 1, IH howovor, tho salary will be automati- IH cully increased to $5000 per year as tho business of the office has increased to an extent that will bring it into tho IH r $5000 class at tho beginning of tho ;! next fiscal year. JM ' Distinguished Ancestry. Noblo Warrum is a Democrat t by heredity, as well as choice Ho is a jH !' lineal descendant of Patrick Honry ; and a long line of Virginia Democrats ; on his mother's side, and of Carolina I and Kentucky Democrats on his .fa-'! .fa-'! thor's side. Mr. Warrum 'a father and !; father-in-law wore prominent Demo-' Demo-' crats in Indiana in their time, and one I brother is a lawyer and a prominent IH Democrat of Indianapolis, whflo an-! an-! other brother 1b a Democratic sheriff in the county of his birth in Indiana. tM Mr. Warrum was born in near IHH ! Greenfield, Ind. .He was educated at 1 Dopnuw university and the law de- B,'J partmcnt of tho University of Michi- Ki 1 gan. In 1891 he came- to Utah and ' lived for several years at Logan. Mr. ! Warrum helped organizo the Domoerat- io party in northern Utah twenty-two IH ! years ago. and ho has bcon prominent- y identified with tho party in Utah ever since. Ho was the editor of tho jH I Logau Journal and subsequently of tho ' old Salt Lake Herald. Mr. Warrum jH ! practiced law for a time in Logan and ! was judgo of probate for Cache county. Ho was a membor of tho constitutional jH convention and of tho first state son-.ate son-.ate of Utah. For several years Mr. Warrum was jH general manager of tho Utah Mexican IH Rubber company and spent consider- jH ablo of hiB time in Moxico. However, ho was always activo iu the councils IH of tho Democratic party in Utah. Noblo Warrum has been city recorder IH since January 1, 19.12 when the cdty IH commission first enmo into power. Ho was not a candidate for tho office, but jH was tendered th'o position out of about H (Continued on Pago Eight. ' NOBLE WARRUM FOB Zl PQSTQFFiCE (Continued from Pago One.) 'forty men who were under consideration considera-tion by the commission. He has been activo in the first administration, ad-ministration, undor the commission form of government and is generally considered to have contributed largely to the success of the administration. To tho commission as a whole he has been an adviser nnd counsellor. Probably a week or more will lapse before Mr. Warrum severs his connection connec-tion with tho city and in that time thu commission expects to sclccb his successor. suc-cessor. "Bearing Mr. Warrum 'a qualifications qualifica-tions in mind it will bo hard to chose his successor," said one commissionor yesterdav. 'ow that it is definitely settled that Mr. Warrant will be the new postmaster, postmas-ter, the city commission expected to tako steps at once to fill the position of recorder. Ilcrctoforo tbero has been no consideration given tho mattor bv tho commihsion as a whole, and each of them avem that ho has no particular particu-lar choice in mind. m Among those considered as possibilities possibili-ties arc II. Wnrrcn Smith, nrosent chief deputy recorder; Ethol McDonald, a deputy recorder; Briant 8. Young who was campaign manager at tho late' election elec-tion for CommUsioncr Hcbcr M. Wells-John Wells-John Q. Critchlow, who served in tho samo position years ago; David D. Cook Fccretary to Mayor Park; A. G. Mackenzie, Mac-kenzie, formerly of tfcc Commercial e lib publicity bureau; John L. Mav, chief clerk in tho office of the TniteJ it? "fcsavcr; H. SteveiiH. formerly chief deputy in the oilicc of the citv auditor. |
