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Show SEEKING TO OUST LOGAN POSTMASTER Salt lke. Nov 22 -Affidavits have been filed with Postmaster Geuerat Burl6ton, selling forth the connection of Joseph Odell, postmaster at Logan, Lo-gan, with the Republican organization rnd charging him with pernhious p Iltlosl activity, Odell is said to have been a particularly active leader in the organization of which Congressman Joseph Howell was the head Mr Odell is now serving his third term as postmaster nt Logan and the term for which he was appointed does not expire until HOfi He r1 celved his last appointment just prior to the close of the Taft adthlnlstnt tion and the appointment whs con finned by the expiring Republican Bcnate. Democrats of Logan are greatlj opposed op-posed to the continuance of Odell In office and are doing their best to secure se-cure his removal. They declare t hit t Odell lias spent more time serving his party than he has serving the govern ment Similar charges It Is said, will also i be filed against Postmaster .Ismes Clove of PlOVO, and Postmaster Sam I uel .ludd of St. George the removal I of both of whom is sought For the position or jioi master (I IOg.m, .1 M. Plair who WHS postmasi er of Logan under President Cleve land, appears to be in the lead He is former chairman of the Democratic county committee of Cache county, and has long been active as a Democratic Demo-cratic party worker He has been indorsed for the postofflce at Logan by the Democratic county committee of Cache county. Originally there Here tlir- other candidates for the pla( Heber Maughan, w. it Burnham and a. t; Barber The CltJ committee unani-mously unani-mously Indorsed Blair's candidacy for tho place Mr Blair on the support of the count ommlttc-e by a narrow margin He received seventeen votes while A G Barber, former state sen ator. was given sixteen Recently it was reported that National Na-tional Committeeman W R. Wallace Was opposed to the appoiniment oi Blair and that he favored Louis P Cardon for the postoffiee This. Mr Wallace denied, and declared lis intention in-tention of sending In a recommendation recommenda-tion thut Blair he appointed .Mr Blair has also received the Indorsement In-dorsement Of Tillman D Johnson and EdathOnlhah Thomas, congressional candidates, and of Chauncey P. Over-field |