Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-06-14
SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICTI
Is Held Up by Supreme Court by Hoquiam
MOsSback Element
Movement for Convenient Courthouse Is Really Ben
Gifted by an Act Conceived in Minds too Mar.
row for Progressive City. Action
Is Repudiated in Hoquiam and
May Disrupt That City,

c. II. Rychard, Harry Heermans, C..
w. Hodgdon, A. D. Hicks. H. B. Hew-
lit and Fred Foster were conspicuous
by their absence.
In fact, the meat trick" as Ho-
quiam paper calls it, is denounced as
strongly in Hoquiam as it is in Alb
erdeen, and will, in all probability
have the good effect of dislodging this
bunch of barnacles from the body poll
tic of that city. So strong is this
feeling in our sister city that move
ment is now being projected in East
Hoquiam for the annexation of that
part of the city to Aberdeen, and it is
said that all that is required to make
the project unanimous rests with the
G.. H. Railway & Light Co. Residents
of that part of Hoquiam say that with
five-cent fare to Aberdeen they
would rather be part of progress
sive community than to remain with
the bunch of short-sighted fossils that
have labored for 20 or more years to
hold Hoquiam back through a sense
less jealousy of Aberdeen.
When viewed calmly, this meat
trick" although conceived in the
lowest og-in-the-manager spirit i'm
aginable, is the very best thing that
could nave happened. 1t will result
in a speedy determination of the val-
idity of the law by the supreme court,
something that should be determined
before any important litigation was
decided in the new district. Had the
matter been left with Judge Irwin,
there is no doubt that an appeal from
his decision would have been taken
no matter how he decided. 1t would
have required months to get su-
preme court decision on that appeal,
but the action taken now, puts the
matter up to the final court in little
over two weeks. 1t must be remem-
bered that this is not law for Che
and has already been acted on in
Snohomish county, where the judges
from Everett will go to Sedro-Wool-
ley and Mount Vernon to hold court,
that county being divided into three
districts. Hence our Hoquiam knock
ers will find no local influences in
that court, and will discover
that they must show that
some grave constitutional violation
has been committed in framing this
law before the supreme tribunal Of
the state will set aside measure
that on its face is for the convenience
of the people and makes for lessening
tn costs of litigants.
Tn Herald trusts that Commission
er Hopkins is misquoted in the World,
when he is made to say that he is
ready to drop the struggle for a court
house on Grays Harbor because of this
protest from Hoquiam. That can
hardly be termed the Aberdeen spirit.
Had Aberdeen been SO easily dis
courged in the past, her place on the
map today would have been a white
spot. This is no time to talk of
quitting. We have just succeeded In
smoking out the real Aberdeenianiacs
in Hoquiam, and find their following
small. The present outlook is that
the progressive element of that city,
which is in a large majority, will
overcome their timidy in dealing
with the erstwhile moguls and pro-
ceed to do business just as If they
owned themselves. The Herald pre-
diets that something is due to happen
in Hoquiam over this last exhibition
of dog-in-the-manger style of delay
ing the progress of Grays Harbor.