The San Francisco call., 1906-09-29
Glllett to Remove a Dangerous
Complication in the North.
Burnett and Chipman Are Planning to
Defeat a Secret Combination.
By Thomas &. Sullivan.

The political pot is boiling over in
Shasta. County. This would not neces-
sarily disturb the equanimity of poll
ticians outside of Shasta were it not
for the fact that the disturbance In
the north is affecting the State cam
paign far beyond it's merits. The Re-
publicans were uneasy over it, and
next Monday night Congressman Gill
lett will try to reduce the fires and
suppress some of the steam that is
making life uncomfortable for several
worthy office-seekers.
The trouble is all over the now
famous second Superior Judgeship in
the county. 1t will be remembered
that the Republicans of Shasta hit
upon the happy idea of inducing the
Legislature to create second Superior
Judge for Shasta to relieve them from
what they believed to be an offensive
partisanship on the part of Judge Head,
the unique Democrat who dispenses
justice from the Superior bench for the
county.
Judge Head is refreshingly indi-
vidual. His individuality at Sacra-
mento during the Democratic conven-
tion startled the delegates and lent an
air of luminous excitement to the pro-
ceedings. The Republicans and some
others of Shasta frankly do not like,
him, so when the Legislature created
the second judgeship Governor Pardee
was expeditions beyond his nature in
appointing Judge Bush to the com
Portable created position.
A CRISIS IN SHASTA COUNTY.
Then howl went I'D from the tax
payers of the county. who had scruples
against paying for two judges when
there is not work enough for one. The
politicians had taken a step too far,
and the abolition of the second judge
ship has been made an issue over
shadowing any other in the present
canvass. Even the chances of Gillett
in Shasta are dependent on his attitude
on this question. The Democrats of
the county have even gone so far as
to pledge their legislative nominees to
abolish the sinecure in the event of
their election.
In the emergency Judge Head has
placed himself in an extraordinary
light While occupying the position of
Superior Judge he is running for the
second judgeship against Judge Bush.
He may be tangling himself in all sorts
of constitutional muddle. but he as
sures his Democratic friends that if
elected he will not qualify for the
second place, and thus save the county
the additional expense over which 1t
is objecting.
How this will save the situation is
years to serve in his present position
does not qualify the Governor will ap-
point and things will be as they Were
1t is suspected that Head wants to win
the long term and then resign the
short one, saving for himself a tenure
of six years in the event the Legisla-
ture abolishes the second judgeship.
BURNETT AND CHAPMAN UNEASY
1t is to straighten out this muddle
that Congressman Gillett will make ar
effort next Monday night. when he
speaks at ReddinS. Abner Weed, the
Republican nominee for the Senate, and
n. A. Cornish, the aspirant for the AS
sembly in the county, have been asked
to be present at the meeting and pledge
themselves to do everything in their
power to remove the obnoxious judicial
weight on the county. This pledge viii
be given and the Republican State nom
inees will have removed a Dangerous