Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-01-17
NJ FARLAND NAMED.
NOMINATED BY PRESIDENT vii.
SON TO BE PoAsTMAsTER.
From, List OF Thirteen Az
piranta Who Took Civil Service Ex-
amination-Ncw Postmaster Repub-
loan IN PolitIos--Sorved Eleven
Years 10 Deputy and Postrnsstsr

~. s. Mcfarland was nominated Fr!r
day by President Wilson to DO post-
master OF Marshalltown, to I'll the
vacancy caused by tho death of A. G..
Johnson, according to O. Dress dispatch
sent out from Washington. The nom
nation Is made on the result Of civil
service examinations taken 10y thirteen
applicants and must receive the rati-
flcation Of the senate before the APP
pointment formally Is made. Robert
Il. johnson has been custodian and
acting postmaster since the death OF
his father.
An order issued by President Wilson
early in 1918 was to tho effect that
postmasters in presidential classes
should be selected regardless OF poll
tics and on the score of efficiency
alone At that time the local post
mastership was vacant, with many
other Iowa Offices, and the Iowa delo-
cation in congress later protested to
the president that his order was being
disregarded by the postmaster general,
who was seeing to 1t that deserving
democrats were getting all the plums.
The appointment Of Mcfarland would
tend to show that President Wilson
has insisted on qualification rather
than party connection in the choics
OF 4 postmaster here. Mcfarland Is .
republican and held the office Of post
master for q short time under a
republican president.
Four Republican Candidates.
Thirteen candidates sought to sue
coed the late A. G. Johnson, who died
March Is. 1918, four Of the aspirants
being republicans. The candidates
were Pearl A. Hawley, present assist
postmaster; Nicholas e. Furlong,
Robert q. Johnson, Charles Henry,
James McNally, William c. McCarten.
Miller S. Mcfarland, Walter T. Scott.
Fred o. Bailey. William A. Anderson.
Frank @. Pierce, John F. Hobbs and
Theodore n. Bendlage. McNally. Scott.
Mcfarland and Pierce are republicans.
McNally was formerly q postmaster
in Nebraska.
The republican contingent. or some
Of them at least. at the time declared
they were taking the examinations to
test the civil service ruling of the
president. Mcfarland, however, was
An avowed candidate seeking the Of
nce on the strength OF his experience
and his fitness for the position.
Eleven Years In Office.
Mr.. Mcfarland was in tho postal
service for eleven years. ten years as
assistant postmaster under Post
masters J.. @. Saint G. H. Smith and
A. @. johnson, and for more than a
year assppstmaster, during the admin
tstratf6n 81 President Taft. with the
asoendency Of the democratic party in
1918, however. Mcfarland was retired.
A. q. johnson receiving the appoint
mont.
MI Mcfarland has had experience IN
other public service. filing the posi-
ton of deputy sheriff under T. j.
Shoemaker. following his retirement
from the postoffice, and later serving
as a member Of the city council, from
1915 to 1917. For the last year or
moro he has been In the employ OF the
Nelson Coal Company.
Three Of the candidates for the
Office are connected with the office at
the present time, Hawley a. deputy
postmaster, johnson as acting post
master, and Anderson, chief Of mail
service and chairman OF the local civil
service board,