Imperial Valley press., 1908-08-22
CALL FOR REPUBLICAN, PRIMAR. IFS AND COUNTY coNVEN. TON TO BE HELD IN
 SEPTEMBER.
CANDIDATES FOR JUDGE.
Three Aspirants For Republican Nom. ination For Place on Superior Bench-Democrat Make a Noise Like Political Party Supporting a Candidate.

On Saturday, Sept }, the RepubI. can voters of Imperial County will hold caucuses to nominate delegates to be voted for at the primary election a week later. Only voters who declare their intention to vote the Republican ticket may cast ballots at the pri- mary.
 The only way for the people to con- trol public affairs and put the right sort of men into office is to attend the caucuses and the primary and con- trol their party business in detail That is where the professional poli- tician gets in his work, and he knows the game. Let the ward heeler select the delegates, and the boss will run the government.
 The coming primary election is i'm portant because it's result will deter mine who is to sit upon the bench of the Superior Court in this county for the next six years. Every settler in Imperial Valley is profoundly concern ed in that matter, as the rights of water users and the privileges of corporations controlling the supply are likely to be the subjects of litiga- tion before the court.
 There are three declared candidates for the Republican nomination for Judge of the Superior Court. Judge Franklin J. Cole, the present incum- bent, asks for reelection to serve full term, and urges that by all the rules and customs of politics he is entitled to the nomination at the hands of the Republican convention. His support CTS urge that he has been a fair and impartial judge, has made no serious mistakes in disposing@ of litigation that his record, though short is free from reverSalS; that his interpreta- tiOn of the law is sound, and that the people of the county are satisfied with the service he has rendered and in favor of giving him an opportunity to make record as a judicial officer that will be creditabe to him in his profession.
 District Attorney Eshleman is a can didate because he is unable to con- tinue his present work without seri- ous menace to his health, and would rather be on the bench than at the bar. His supporters urge that he is one of the best equipped lawyers in the county, having had longer practice than had Judge Cole when he was elected, and that his public services entitle him to ask for recognition and reward at the hands of the public.
 The California Development Com pany puts forward a candidate in the person of Roy D, McPherrin, one of its former officers Mr McPherrin is personally unobjectionable, but his interests are identified with those of a company whose affairs are very likely to be subjects of litigation before the Superior Court, and the settlers of the Valley will not vote to place a c. D. Company man on the bench It would be a political blunder of the first mag. nitude for a Republican convention to nominate a candidate foredoOmed to defeat Everyone likes Roy McPher- rim, but he is too thick with Br'er Cory and he is hoOdooed by the ar dent support of the only Bryan paper in the county.
 The Democrats feel constrained, of course, to go through the motions of a campaign and make a noise like a party supporting its candidate. They contracted the habit of making nom- nations in their youth and they keep up the good old custom out of loyalty to the memory of the party that was. They got together weeks ago and made the noise and are happy It wasn't much of a noise and will not be heard far on election day The chances are that the Socialists will make a racket of superior volume, Those hardly sanguine and yoicifer- ous remodellers of the world say they will put up a candidate who is not tainted with legal lore. They have made futile oyertures to Justice Tout, bul are not discouraged by his re, fusal to run.
 Anyone who will be qualified to vote at the general election, and who declares his purpose to vote the Re, publican ticket, may vote at the pri- maries, The primary election law is not in force in this county.