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165 SEPTEMBER 13-15, 1877 GRASS VALLEY UNION
resignation. The vacancy will have to be filled by appointment, and the County has the appointing
power. Judge Caldwell will, we feel sure, appoint the successor to Mr. Brady, in accordance with
the wishes of the people of the district. Those wishes should be made known to the Judge in some
manner—say by petition, which is the usual way.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1877
THAT RESIGNATION.—We stated yesterday that A. B. Brady, had resigned the position
of County Supervisor for the Grass Valley District. We were just a little fast. He tendered his
resignation but his fellow members of the Board refused to entertain the same, and the document
was withdrawn for the present. The members of the Board know that the people of the county do not
want to dispense with Mr. Brady’s services and therefore they wouldn’t talk about resignation.
SUSPENDED PUBLICATION.—The Colfax Enterprise has suspended publication, the last
number appearing on Wednesday. Ben Frank, the publisher, announces that he “busted wide open”
in the business, but others think he has made a fortune and is going to travel to Europe and that he
talks “busted” out loud because he does not want a fuss made over him.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1877
NONSENSICAL JUDICIAL ELECTION.
There is some talk about not holding the judicial election, in this county, next month. This extra
and nonsensical election will cost the county about four or five thousand dollars, we are told, and is
to be held only for the purpose, so far as Nevada county is concerned, of choosing eighteen Justices
of the Peace. The constitution and the laws of the State of California call upon the people of Nevada
county [to] go through such a useless and idiotic performance. We do not mean that it is useless and
idiotic, per se, for the people of Nevada county to elect Justices of the Peace, but that to hold a special
election, for such a purpose, has no sense whatever in it.
The law and the constitution should save the people the time, trouble and expense of that
special election by having all officers chosen at one general election. We are in for an amendment
of the constitution and the reform of the law, in all such cases. But Nevada county thinks, as we
are told, about saving money by just refusing to hold that October judicial election. Under the law,
according as the law reads, Justices of the Peace hold office until their successors are elected and
qualified. Should the Supervisors refuse to order an election for next October the Justices now
holding office would continue to hold right along, until such a time as there are judges enough to be
chosen to justify the expense of holding a judicial election. If vacancies occur, by reason of death or
resignation, the Supervisors can fill them by appointment.
We do not know that we are in favor of this scheme that is talked about. We should like to see
the four or five thousand dollars saved, but whether it would be exactly right to do so by a refusal
of the Supervisors to act, we are in doubt. Then again there are men who want to be Justices of the
Peace who are not now such officers, and they would feel that they were personally wronged and that
their lawful and constitutional rights had been invaded, should the Supervisors neglect or refuse to
order the election. And still again the Supervisors, by refusing to act, may be morally if not legally
guilty of inciting present Justices of the Peace to become usurpers. On the whole the little old farce
had better be played out, and the bills announcing the same had better be posted.
Secretary of the Senate.
Candidates for legislative offices are already looming up, and Dame Rumor is busy with
the name of our friend Rufe Shoemaker, of the Grass Valley UNION, who wants to tackle
some fat institution for the Winter. Rufe would make a splendid Secretary of the Senate, for