The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-01
Everybody in Town Wants
Honor Of POstmaster's
Job.
HOWELL DEEP IN THOUGHT
ABOUT MAKING SELECTION
Probable That Stake President
Will Have to Get Revelation
From Bee Hive House.

can Fork. All the JrOuOie is apouI thc
postoffice down there. 1t IS not so
much that American Fork has post
office, as that American Fork has too
many would be postmasters.
After thirteen years Of more or less
peaceful administration of the postal
affairs of American Fork, man has
resigned the Job Of postmaster on ac-
count of -health-John Peters Ind
been postmaster nigh onto tlmc Tor MN
to quit. A lot Of ambitious people year
in and year out watched John Peters
with Jealous ego, wondering how long,
Oh Lord, how long, he would hang on.
So when John Peters felt the duties
of postmaster becoming too burdensome
for his more or less enfeebled shoulders
to carry, he sent in his resignation, and
Instantly there was turmoil and turbn-
lence and seething and boiling like unto
the mixture that keeps up the fame OF
the hot-pots. No sooner had 1T became
known that John Peters had concluded
to Jump the Job than the woods were
filled with an echoiug and re-echolng
clamor Everybody in American Fork,
it seemed like, wanted to step into the
shoes Of John Peters, and now the
question is paramount: Who will be
TT? And will he be as pleased when
he is TT as he thinks he will be-
Harrington an Early Bird.
First crack out Of tho box, Lon l..
Harrington, who is said to stand In
pretty well with the regular bunch Of
party men in American Fork, and who
is law of James Chapman, Sr.,
appeared as n candidate. Harrington,
realizing the value of getting a dla
mond hitch on times forelock, got the
Endorsement Of the Republican commit
tee.
W. X. Thornton, one Of the bonds
men for Peters, who took charge of the
office pending action by the postmaster
general, also indorsed Harrington g APP
plication. No sooner had he done this,
however. than regret seized Mr.. Thorn
ton. In the night there had come to
him the vision that no himself was the
American Fork. Thornton buckled on
his armor and went, after Endorsement
himself, and it is said he succeeded in
getting good deal Of the coveted ap.
proval.
Dunkley's Hasty Step.
The third Richmond in the field is
S. II. Dunkley. Dunkley is local chair
man. Dunkley is also an employee Of
the Chapman Mercantile company, of
which Stephen Il. Chipman is manager.
Moreover, Chipman is president Of the
Alpine stake Of Zion, and as such
wiells powerful influence. Naturally,
Dunkley, having been a faithful and
reliable workman in the interests of
Mr. Chapman S company, he felt conf
dent that his boss would IndOrse his
aspirations.
In this Mr.. Dunkley sadly miscalcu-
lated, however, for when he broached
the subject nearest his heart of hearts,
Mr.. Chipman said the much.envied in
dorscment of the stake president and
the company, At whose head the stake
president is, had already been given to
Harrington who, it will be recalled, is
the son-in-law Of the other Chipman.
Dunkley was as downcast upon hay
ing this information thrust upon him
as pup with the distemper Life
seemed no longer anything other than
hollow mockery and CHASTITY trav.
esty, and he gave up the chase with
sigh that came all the way up from his
boots.
Just at this time, Chapman asked
Dunkley for his Endorsement, as the
party chairman, of Harrington, and
Harrington got it. Then Dunkley got
bad case of re morse. He was sore
at himself because he had been led into
trap that precluded his own chances
IT was very foolish thing for Mr.
Dunkley to do, TO he sure.
There is still a possibility. of course,
that Harrington will fall down because
there arc a great many many people
in Spanish Fork who would rather have
a tomcod for postmaster than lIarring
ton. In that event, Dunkley would
still have chance.
Mr. Wootten's Peril.
In the mix.np there appeared the
head of John II. Wootteu. a member OF
a We bp I,,o l.,
lower house mt the last session, and
who Is possessed of the notion TINT
Utah county would never survive If he
were not returned. Mr. Wootten is
sald to have promised his support to
harrington, but he is said also TO have
IKE Dunkley, seen Il new light, and
ms lamentations about the unwse
thlng he did are like unto the chanting
OF the tenebrac. Wootten now has
come to realization that if his en-,
dofsement of Harrington becomes eener-
ally. known, and If he urges ualring-
ton appointment, his own aspirations
may rs well be put into the garbage
can, Tor Wootten VIII be n dead dog
so iar as return engagement in Utah IS |
legislative halls are concerned.
1T is up to Congressman Howell to
9eclde the contest, and if that great
statesman can decide it to the sntisfac-
ton of everybody, he is a demipod i'm.
deed, And he must decide rightly. or
there is knife In Utah county await. |
ing him next fall, upon which the
grinders have been putting razor
edge.
What Will Smoot Do7
1t might be iuteriected hero that
Dnnkley is the choice of Reed Smoot |
and has the Endorsement of Postmaster
moss OF Lehi. Just how much moss the
lndorsement OF Postmaster Ross of Lehi
drags, does not apepar at this time, nor |
voived in the mess, but it is safe to
say that tho willy apostle. senator is
not any deeper in the miro than he
can help. Whether he will let Howell
hounder ! lou around in the morass, help
less, or whether he will throw him a
rope, remains to be seen, but the pre-
yalhng opinion is that he will steer
clear of the American Fork entangle-
ment