Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-29
PUBLISHED GALL
 $ INCORRECT
Supervisors Did Not include the Precinct Offices
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 According to J. J. Bowen. of the board of supervisors. the advertise ment of the call for an election pub lished in the Douglas Dispatch is in- correct in so far as 1t names precinct officers. In the list of offices named in the published call. in addition to state and county offices, are twenty justices of the peace and twenty con stables; S4 republican central commit teemen, IS democratic committeeman, and 45 soci8listic committeeman.
 The publication of an advertise ment calling for an election of pre- cinct officers was not authorized by the board of supervisors, according to the Bisbee member of the board. However, he does not believe that the publication of the advertisement in that form will work an invalidation of the advertisement. To be legal, the advertisement must be published a certain number of days before the primary election, and the meeting of the supervisors was called Wednes- day evening at Tombstone in order that this legal requirement might be fulfilled
 Inasmuch as the governors cali did not specify precinct officers, the board did not feel justified in going beyond the governors calll. The sup eryisors will receive and file all peti- tions Of candidates for precinct Of ficers, and while these offices will not be printed on the ballots. ample room will be made on the ballots for the inserting of the names of the candi- dates for the precinct offices.
 Judge Richardson, of Douglas, an attorney of authority, advised Mir. Bowen at Douglas yesterday that pre- cinct offices are county offices, not withstanding the number of opinions that have been quoted in the press to the contrary, and stated that he could cite as many as a dozen de- cisions to prove that officers of pre- cincts are county officers. The su- preme court of New Mexico is to the contrary, notwithstanding.
 The special dispatch from Tomb stone to The Review yesterday morn ing, stating that the call for an cleo ton by the supervisors did not stipu- late precinct officers was correct. ae- cording to MT. Bowen. In NIT. Bow ems opinion the naming of the offices in the call as published, does not in- validate the call.
 The supervisors will be guided by the evident intent of the enabling act, which, while it does not speci- fy that precinct officers shall be elect ed, sufficient reference is made to those officers to indicate Ehat the frameFs of the act intended that they should be elected In any event, should they not be elected, all of these officers in the county will be hued within twenty-four hours after the territory becomes a state.
 The candidates for the various pre- cinct offices are in a stew over what 10 do. with apologies to Father Tuck. IL is the expressed intention of many of them, however, to run, or rather 10 continue the race. Should their cleo tion be invalidated, those elected would still be the choice of the voters for the offices for which they offered, and might be considered as an "ad- visory vote" in which event they would probably be the ones appointed by the supervisors.
 If precinct officers hold over be- cause the election ordinance did not provide for their election, is the ten ure of office of the present precinct officers illegal because the enabling act did not provide that precinct Of ficers should hold over? This is not a daffydiI, but pertinent question. According to a prominent Bisbee at torney. the enabling act did not pro vide that precinct officers should hold over; only county and state officers. if precinct officers are county officers, as Judge Richardson of Douglas holds, their tenure of ot- fee under the enabling act is illegal; if they are not county officers, 1t would appear that every precinct otii- cer, every justice of the peace and | constable in the territory, has been | illegally in office since January l, 1911. If you see anyone running around and around in a ring and muttering to himself, he is a candidate for pre- cinct office, gone stark mad over pull ing opinions to pieces and chanting 'I am a candidate; l am hold-over.