The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-12-07
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[ RlBUNE
SALT LAKE PAPER SAYS THE Ak
is TO BE USED.
Story Has No Foundation In Fact
No One Has Been Promised an
Office by Mayor-Eleet.

The following is from this morning s
Tribune,
Ogden, Dec 6.-After "BNl" Glas-
mann. the mayor.elect OF Ogden, takes
the oath of office in January. there
will be one of the biggest ''ax-fests"
ever known in the history of official
decapitation in this city, if everything
goes on according to the present sched-
ule. That GlaSmann Is more than Gag
er TO use the AK upon some of his
political opponents Is palpable from
several facts, chief OF which is that
many Of those now holding appointivc
Offices in the municipality are Demo.
Gratis and worked against Glasnann
In the election I'm November. when
he slid into office by n little over 100
plurality.
From information given out by those
who SIT in the councils OF the Rcpub-
lican camp, il is said that Chief T ]
Paine of the fire department, Street
Supervisor Joseph Saunders, Sanitary
Inspector George Shorten and City
Physician w. j. Browning have been
marked for slaughter by BILL and
their heads are due to roll into the
official waste basket as soon as Glas-
mann assumes the duties OF his office
There are others, members OF the
Democratic party, holding appointlve
Offices. who will probably retain their
positions. These are City Jalier Hag-
bert Anderson and Poll Tax Collec,
tor AL Harris.
GlaSmann and the Republican city
central committee are said to have
been just as eager at f1rst for the
scalpS of these two Democrats as the
others. but the Republican members
OF the city council who are holdovers,
and who have been in close touch with
the work OF these two officials for the
past two years, are said to have called
a halt Glasmann is just beginning
to learn one thing, and this Will prob
ably cause him many regrets before
his administration is completed. This
is. that there are Republican council
men, holdovers and newly elected, who
are not going TO let him bu,ldo2e or
dictate to them regarding their duties
in the city council. Some of them
have already expressed themselves in
this regard Unless Glasmann soft
ems considerably in his manner of
dealing with those associated with him
In a business way by the first of the
year, there will be about as much
harmony in the Republicans at the
head Of the city government as could
be found iu Il bottle filled With taran.
tulas.
The mayor-elect was asked in ref
cnce TO the foregoing article clipped
from this mornings Salt Lake Trib.
une. He said that so far as he knew
there was not one word of truth in
the entire statement, that he has not
consulted or talked with any member
or member-elect OF the city council in
regard to any appointment of any Of
fee within the power of the mayor TO
appoint.
With this correction. the Tribune
article may be taken by the people for
what il is worth
Several members of the City Coun-
ell were seen and each one OF them
said that Mayor-Elect Glasmann has
not spoken TO them or discussed the
matter oil appointment The mayor
elect says that 1t Will be time enough
TO give his attention to the appoint
ments after he has assumed the dut
les of the Office. He says there are
about q dozen applicants for every
Office and that 1t Will be no easy job
TO select the one most entitled to
each position. and that. so far as he
was concerned, he had not decided
upon the appointment of anyone