| OCR Text |
Show FALL 2013 UHQ pp 304-385_UHQ Stories/pp.4-68 9/16/13 1:25 PM Page 319 OGDEN UNION STATION COLLECTION WILLIAM GLASMANN With his bid for postmaster, Glasmann was A group of dignitaries assembled again opposing the members of Smoot’s for the opening of the Lucin faction, who routinely kept the plum federal Cutoff, November 1903. jobs for their loyal supporters. Knowing this, Glasmann is seventh from the Glasmann simply went over their heads and right. directly to the president. On May 15, the Ogden Standard broke its silence on the matter, acknowledging that the incumbent Thomas Davis still held the inside edge over all other candidates, while John D. Murphy had the support of senators Smoot and Sutherland. In his typical self-deprecating modesty, Glasmann said his chances of landing the job “were one in a hundred.”54 On July 19, however, the Inter-Mountain Republican reported that in the coming few days, Congressman Joseph Howell would announce that Glasmann would be Ogden’s next postmaster. On the evening of August 16, Glasmann received notification from the AP that Roosevelt had officially appointed William Glasmann as postmaster of Ogden.55 On January 16, 1907, Glasmann learned of a secret petition circulated by his political enemies seeking to prevent him from official confirmation by the U.S. Senate. The Standard tried to obtain a copy of the petition, but to no avail: “No one is permitted to see the statements made in the protest unless he first pledges himself to sign it.”56 The petitioners spread the rumor 54 “Ogden Postmaster Fight,” Ogden Standard, May 15, 1906. See also Jean Bickmore White, “The Right to be Different: Ogden and Weber County Politics, 1850–1924,” Utah Historical Quarterly 47, no. 3 (Summer 1979): 265–68. 55 “Glasmann Gets the Office,” Ogden Standard, August 17, 1906. 56 “Dirty Work of Glasmann’s Enemies Will Not Injure the Ogden Postmaster,” Ogden Standard, January 16, 1907. 319 |
