The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-06
PLOT AGAINST GREENE
Terrific Row In Progress In the
Hannaite Camp.
ROGERS AGAINST LANN,lN
STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL OF
FEDERAL PATRONAGE.
State Committee and Colonel Lannan
Engage In an Unsuccessful Plot
to Defeat Gresne's Appointment
Plotters Could Not Use Dennis
Eichnor-Boom for Clark.

Web Greene is the rock upon which
the spoils vendors of Utah have split.
Web is true disciple of Hanna; he
was faithful and original Hannaite;
he had no federal job. This made his
claim to office clear. But jobs must
come through the proper channel or
there will be blood on the face of the
moon Blood is cropping out now.
When ex-senator Brown was in
Washington for the sheepmen recently
he pushed Web along for he regards
Web as a good thing, and in few days
his name went to the president.
Lindsay Rogers was back Of the
scheme. This selection was a surprise
to the state central committee. They
did not expect it 50 soon. They had
other plans, and while most of them
had given Greene a formal endorse
ment, they had other men to push
when the right time came.
Effort to Down Greene.
When Greene's name appeared on the
census directors list they hustled
therefore in desperation. 1t was an
nounced in their organ that Web
Greene's gun had been spiked and that
Dennis c. Eichnor was the man who
had done the spiking; that Dennis was
endorsed by the state central commit
tee, and intimated that he had been
quietly working for the job. The plot
tiers in this move had two objects in
view First. they would knock out
Greene, not that they loved Greene less,
but that they hated Brown and Rogers
more. Second, they would get
Eichnor out of the way. He had hold
on the party. he had been thrown down
hard to provide for c. o. Whittemore
and he was bound to come up for some
thing SOON There would be important
offices to fill and if Dennis could be
showed into this census job he would
be out of the way. They reckoned in
this without Dennis. The next MORN
ing he was out in a manly card re-
pudiating the scheme. stating that he
was not a candidate for the job and
that he was for A. H. Parsons.
Fooled in this and smarting under
their defeat. they got together certain
members of the state central COM
mittee. Wesley X. Walton, Arthur
Thomas, r 6. Campbell and John c.
Graham, the latter of Provo. were pres
ent.
Fixed By Arthur Thomas.
1t was there stated that through a
letter written by Postmaster Thomas
the case of Web Greene had been
pigeon-hold at Washington, that a
united effort could knock him out en-
tirely and that the committee should
do this to vindicate its authority. But
Campbell and one other refused to be
parties to the work. Greene's appoint
ment would stand with them. He was
a Republican and the appointment was
straight.
AS soon as this meeting was over
P. H. Lannan. Arthur Pratt. Arthur
Thomas and Wesley X. Walton were in
close caucus and part of this quartette
has been in intermittent caucus since
One of the knowing ones, who has been
on the inside of similar intricate
schemes, says that this BODIES evil days
ahead for Lindsay Rogers and his
friends
Rogers Against Committee.
Rogers has permitted the report to
go out that as he was national COM
mitteeman for Utah, Mark Hanna s
direct representative in fact, that he
would control all federal appointments
in Utah except postmasters. This re-
port had frenzied the state central
committee before Web Greene's selec-
ton and that event poured oil on the
fire A test fight was made on that
issue and as the committee was downed
the feeling is fearful to contemplate
AS the beautiful scheme unfolds it be-
comes biletl tic RttNtA bNAAiA''.
the committee, directing its move
ments and squirting it to action, is p
Hanna I.annan: while ex-senator
Brown is giving his moral influence and
the benefit of his many years expert
ence to National Committeeman
Rogers. The point is not overlooked
either that while Lannan and his CO.
horts were for silver or in the woods in
SO. the Rogers-Brown combination was
answering in its allegiance to gold
Some of these latter-day Republicans
are just beginning to realize that 10
get into the Hanna camp they must
come in sack cloth and ashes.
They must not expect to jump at once
upon the front seat of the band wagon
and grab the reins and drive. Humility
is a beautiful virtue, and it Is so
scarce
Greene Has Cinche.
But the outcome of the fracas up to
date is that Web Greene has lead
pipe cinch on his job, Lindsay Rogers
is in the saddle and aspirants for
federal offices need waste no time pray
ing to the minor bosses They have
no direct connection with headquarters.
WANT CLARK RENoMINATED.