The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-03-07
WILSON NAMES
NOBLE WARRUM
As
Senate VIII Probably Confirm
Nomination Next Week;
Utah Senators Will Of
fer No Opposition.
APPOINTMENT ENDS
DEMOCRATIC CONTEST
City Recorder VIII Tender
Resignation Soon; Sue
cessor to Municipal
Office Undecided.

Noble Warrum was today nominated
for postmaster of Salt Lake City by
President Woodrow Wilson to succeed
former Governor Arthur l.. Thomas.
whose term as postmaster expired last
Monday. Action on the appointment is
expected by the 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 commission,
though it is probable that he will ask
that the resignation be accepted with
In week or ten days With the an.
nouncement Of Mr.. Warrum S appoint.
ment number of candidates to sue.
ceed him as city recorder have become
active in urging their candidates..
The appointment of Mr.. Warrum as
postmaster Of Salt Lake ends an inter
estlng contest for the place that has
occupied the attention of local Demo
Gratis for several months D. C. Dun
bar was the principal opponent of Mr.
Warrum for the place, Mr.. Dunbar
had the Endorsement OF the Salt Lake
county Democratic committee and sew
eral Democrats of local and national
prominence, including some of the
members Of the United States senate.
Endorsed Candidacy.
Those who indorsed the candidacy
of Mr.. Warrum included National Com
mitteeman w. r. Wallace, Democratic
State Chairman S. r. Thurman. Demo
cratic County Chairman T. F.. Thomas,
Mathonihah Thomas and T. D. Johnson,
recently Democratic candidates for con-
gress; Frank K. Nebeker, former ma
tional committeeman; the late Judge
0. w. Powers and a number of other
local Democrats OF prominence. Unit
ed States Senators Thomas of Colorado,
Kern and Shively of Indiana and Vice
President Marshall are said to have
been active in urging Mr., Warrum IS
appointment.
II the confirmation of the appoint
ment Is made within the next week it
will probably be another week before
the commission is received by Mr.. War
rum and the bond approved. It is not
probable that the new postmaster will
take Office before April /. Former Gov
ernor Arthur J.. Thomas, who has been
postmaster of Salt Lake City for more
than sixteen years, completed his term
Of Office on last Monday, but viii re-
main as postmaster Until his successor
qualities for the place.
At present the salary of the postmas-
ter of Salt Lake is $4,000. On July /,
however. the salary will be automati
cally increased to $4,000 per year as the
business of the Office has increased to
an extent that will bring 1t into the
$4,000 class at the beginning of the
next fiscal year.
Distinguished Ancestry.
Noble Warrum Is Democrat by
,eredity, as well as choice. He is a
nS na q pasr1Ss
IN his mother IS side, and of Carolina
hers side Mr. Warrum 's father ind
were prominent Demo
rats in Indiana in their time. and one
brother is a lawyer and prominent
Democrat of indianapolis. while an
ther brother is a Democratic sheriff IN
he county of his birth in Indiana.
Mr.. Warrum was born in 1855 near
Ind. He was educated at
)epauw university and the law de-
artment Of the University of Michi.
an. In 1891 he came to Utnh and
wed for several years at Logan. Mr..
yarrum helped organize the Democrat
, party in northern Utah twenty-five
ears ago. and he has been prominent
Y identified with the party in Utah
yer since He was the editor of the
,orau Journal and subsequently of the
Id Salt Lake Herald. Mr.. Warrum
racticed law for a time in Logan and
ms judge of probate for Cache county;
10 was member of the constitutional
onvention and of the first state SEN
tie of Utah.
For several years Mr.. Warrum was
sneral manager Of the Utah Mexican
ubber company and spent consider
bic of his time In Mexico However,
. WAS always active in the councils
/ the Democratic party in Utah.
Noble Warrum has been city recorder
nee January /, 1919, when the city
,mmssion first came into power. He
as not candidate for the Office, but
as rendered the position out of about
(Coutiuued on PaE0 Eighth