Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-10-28

from sne start. and n0bly fought for th<
canss In the Territorial RspuhlssAn-
acknowledgements. and that Charles
7. AundAy II the lav partner Of the
Hon. W. H. white. Who last spring uss
sent 10 Washington in the interest Of
forfeiture.
ooUxTr oETI1xs.
We would ask the careful considera-
tion Of the following principles Of pal
10y IN American politics. Of every voter
In sslseting his msn 10 al the county
Offices:
That all terms Of Office ara short in
the United States, because men elected
or appointed Tor long time, no matter
how honest they may be at the begin
nine. would by ard by be tempted to
tyrannaze over the people, and probably
try In some unlawful manner 20 retain
or increase their power because in the
event Of bad mans election or an.
pointment, he can do but little
harm during year or two; while
II he were not removable for many
years. he mighk rob. or Cypress the no.
pie, perhaps even to the point Of pro-
vokinR revolution; because frequent
elections keep the people watohfal OF
public men and measures. Society. like
water and air, requires frequent aoita-
ton TO keep Il pure. Holding the same
office too long, designing men have too
much time in which 20 plot their own
advancement at tbs public expense; be-
ski
fully carry out the peoples wishes than
those who have held Office long enough
to forget their accountability to the
people. The new broom sweeps clean;
because long continuance of the same
parties IN power or trust is dangerous TO
liberty; rotation In Office il therefore
one Of the best securities Of permanent
freedom.
As to how the foregoing principles
Affect the various candidates, we leave
Q critical public to judge. Mr.. Hill has
held the Office Of Treasurer for some
eight or ten years Mr.. Harris, we un-
derstand, has been in the Courthouse of
King county for some ten or twelve
years, acting in the capasisy, at various
times. Of Deputy Treasurer, Treasurer,
Deputy Auditor and Auditor. While
We accord to these gentlemen that they
have been courteous TO the public, We
are frank 70 say we think they have held
their positions quite long enough, and
that Ne believe our candidates are quite
a. competent as they to fill their re-
spective places, and that the general
public will meet with the same courtesy
at their hands and be well satisfied with
q change.
Mr.. McHrav, our candidate for Sher-
III, has held the Office but one term by
and the unexpired term of his
predecessor, by appointment, and by
his ever jealous care for the interests of
the people, rather than himself, has en-
deared himself to the people, who will
return him to his office for Q second
term by election.
A short life sketch of Mr.. McGrav ap-
peared in the columns Of this paper
few days ago, and we here give those OF
our candidates for Treasurer and Audi
tor rest ectively.
J. NJ. LYON,
Our candidate for County Treasurer.
was born at jackson, Michigan, in 1870.
Game to California in 1859, when nine.
teen years of age, and entered the ser
vice of the Western Union Telegraph
In 1862 came to Oregon to
assist in establishing the telegraph bust
ness in that State. After the lines were
to Portland he was appointed
to the position of manager of the Port
land Office. After one years service in
that capacity he was detailed TO come
to Washington Territory, to assist here
and in British Columbia in establishing
q division of the overland line around
the world. After spending one year at
different towns in this Territory, he was
stationed at New Westminster, where
he remained until 1865, when he was
appointed Manae or of the Seattle office,
in which position he remained, to the
entire satisfaction of the company, until
about two years ago, when he resigned
for the purpose Of engaging in mercan-
tile business. FROM this IL will be seen
that Mr.. Lyon is well known by every
body in this county. be having lived and
done business in Seattle for IS years |;
hence to speak of his competency and
general fitness for the Office Of County
Treasurer would be but to reiterate that
which the people already know.
WIN. Il. wHIrTLEsEY.
Mr.. Whittlesey, our candidate for
County Auditor, is the son of Major j.
H. Whittlesey, retired officer Of the
United States Army, now q resident of
this city. Young Whittlesey was born
in the army in 1857, passed bis early
years with bis parents 1t frontier posts,
and that his early education was not
is clear from the fact that he
entered Princeton College, at Prince
ton. N. j., in the year 1872. at the early
age of fourteen years, and graduated
from that institution, with honsrs, in
1876, at the age of eighteen, after which
be entered the law office of Edwin l..
Stanton, in Washington. ID. G.. as
student. and after taking the prescribed
three years course of lectures at the
University Law School of
that city, WAS graduated and admitted
to the Bar of the District of Columbia,
in 1879. During eighteen months
Of the time in which Mr..
Whittlesey was pursuing his
Law studies, having enlisted in the army
he was detailed for special service
in the War Department by q competi-
tive examination, in which he stood sec
ond in list of 40 applicants examined,
and on the 18th of November, 1879, he
received an honorable discharge from
the army. Later in 1870 he went TO Col
orado, and spent some six months in an
abstract efsice In Leadville, after which
he went TO Gunnison, Col, where he
spent some two years in the Auditors
Office az deputy, during which time he
q set of abstract books of the
records of Gunnison county. From
Gannison he came direct to Seat lie.
since here. his work has been on re-
cords and ABSTRACTS all the time. He 10
perhaps ~ thoroughly conversant with
the records Of King eoanty az any man
in the couEty.
Mr.. whittlesey 10 frank, courteous
and honest. A young man Of letters, in
taQrisy and probity, no one who knows
him will doubt shat be 10 eminently
qualified 10 ill the position Of Auditor
10 the entire satisfaction of his con-
stituents.
MISCELLANEOUS.