Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-01-25
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wonderful. Deacon Biaclow. the late
County School Superintendent. shows
signs of hanging on to official life, not
withstandipg tina. everybody thought
him done fCr and laid out last Novcm-
Der as straight as q string; and Doctor
Munson. Of the Echo, holsters him up
from week to week with cordials and
sweet unctions, such as: Should he
be unjustly prevented from d;scharsins
the da.;cs OF that Office for the next two
wears, the cause of education in this
county will suffer iirepalably," and
Mr. Biyclow was the only candidate
legitimately voted for and is entitled to
the office, and were it not SO, is to hold
Office until his successor is elected and
qualified" and "This movement is to
set the Commissioners to declare q va
cancy, and then appoint Superintond-
emit more suitable 70 their peculiar no.
tions," and "Mr. Bigelow being the
only candidate was elected. The injury
will be done if the County Commission
ers listen to bad advisers and attempt
to appoint man to fill the place whom
the people don't want" and more ab-
surdities of the same kind.
AS to Mr.. Bigelow being entitled to
the office, we don't see it; and he is the
only man in the county of whom the
people have said directly that they do
not want him for that position, prefer
ing even to vote for nonresident, >"
rs claimed by the Echo, than the Bar
nacle of Thurston county. Ifthe coun-
ty Commissioners are satisfied that there
is vacancy in the Office, and that the
law makes it their duty to fill it, we be-
lieve that they should do So in the man
ner indicated by Doctor Munson, by
appointing some member of their own
party, if they can find one who is fitted
for and will accept the position. 1t is
quite certain that the County Commits
sioners are empowered by law to fill a
vacancy in this Office when one occurs,
so that the only question in the case is
as to whether there is vacancy or not
The law of 1868 provides that the Su-
rerintendent "shall hold his office for
the term of three years" and then gives
the Commissioners power to fill vacan-
cies occurring "by removal, death or
otherwise" The law of 1871, being
that now in force, provides that the
Superintendent "shall hold his Office
for the term of two years and untu his
successor is elected or appointed and quail
ifed," and not as Doctor Munson pre-
tends to quote it, "until his successor
is elected and qualified" These addi-
tional words would appear to carry the
idea that the incumbent, in case there
is no election by the people, is to be
superseded by appointment. The
clause giving the Commissioners power
to fill vacancies, speaks of them in both
statutes as occurring "by removal,
death, OF otherwise" Now the only
ways in which vacancy can occur,
other than by removal or death, are by
resignation, failure upon the part of the
people to elect, the election of one not
qualified, or failure of the Superintend-
ent elect to qualify. If vacancy &C.
ours upon any of the three last condi-
tons, then there is vacancy now, and
MIR. Bigelow can only hold the Office
until his successors appointed. If the
Legislature did not contemplate that a
vacancy would occur ON those. condi-
tons, why did it not provide merely for
vacancies that were probable-rcmoval,
death or resignation The word resig-
nation would fill the bill and leave no
room for doubt.
Certainly it cannot be supposed that
Legislature of which this highly edu-
Gated Superintendent was the chief Or
nament, and in bill of which he is
said to be the father, would use the word
"otherwise as synonym of "resig-
nation"
OREGON GRAPEs.-Mies Mollie Post
has sent us box of grapes, from the
farm of Samuel Miller, Esq, near
Oregon City, which are fully equal, in
flavor, to those of California growth.
We may expect our fruit dealers to re-
ceive their supplies of this delicious
fruit from Oregon next season, in
stead of subiecting it to the changers