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supervisors that the Brawley dis
trict stands squarely to an over
whelming degree behind the man
their own representative, Super
visor Graham, had named for the
position.
P0stpOnement Opposed
Following Cnis, Graham offered
the motion placing Morrow's IS name
before the board. 1t was seconded
by Preble and Lnere the matter
rested, no immediate action being
taken. With matters at this stage,
Preble suggested one week IS post
ponement to check over the names
on the Brawley petition.
This did not meet with the ap-
proval of the bCard and after a
caucus of each .nber it was de-
termined to take the vote without
delay. AS the name of each super
visor was called a deep silence fell
over the audience which held for
moment or two after the result
was announced: Osborne, Vencill,
Best, no; Graham, Preble, yes.
When the people of Brawley
realized that they had again been
thwarted in their desire to seat the
man of their evident choice many
of them determined to find out, if
possible, the reasons why this ad-
verse note had been taken by the
three members of the board. Os-
borne was singled out by the ques-
TONERS for this purpose.
He was asked what objections he
had to Morrow but gave no salts
factory reason for the attitude he
had taken other than to suggest
that the only real way out of the
difficulty was to hold an election
in the district.
Stilgenbaur in another talk, quot
ed Mark Rose as saying in a
Brawley school room that the lat
ter objected TO anyone coming into
his district and telling who should
be put in office from that district.
Why, then, it was asked, shouldn' It
Brawley be gwen the same chance
in its own district?
Rose, who was IN the audience,
said that he was not against peo-
pie coming into his district and he
was against Morrow because the
latter was against the All-Ameri-
can canal.
To this it was pointed out that
Morrow in his application stated
that he was absolutely in favor OF
the canal. Someone in the audi
ence asked if Morrow pledged him.
self that power developed from the
canal should be handled only by
the people of the valley. Morrow
answered in the affirmative to this.
Graham pointed out to the board
and audience that the people OF
his district had voted overwhelm-
ingly for the construction OF the
American canal and that it
would be political suicide for him
even to think of suggesting anyone
for the office VINO might be
against this project.
Straw Vote Approved
Again Osborne was questioned
as to the reason for his present at
titude. He stated that he did not
have too much faith in petitions
as they might be signed by persons
whose only object was to get rid
of the one offering the paper, with
out any real belief in the meaning
of the petition. To this it was OBJ
jected that under such clrcum-
stances, with such a momentuouS
question to be decided, it was un-
thinkable that people would at
tach their names to this petition
without due and deep thought.
Osborne ws again asked If the
people of Ell Centro whom he rep
resented were opposed to allowing
Brawley to exercise its right OF
choice in this matter. His answer
to this was that the people OF Ell
,, Centre ''sit in on this without
any further explanations.
The matter was finally deter
mined by the board when Preble OF
fered a motion that a straw vote
be taken on this question by the
people of the Brawley district. This
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possible under the regular election
supervision of the county clerk s
office and is to be only for those
voters who at present are registered
in that district Halliday told the
board that they could not delegate
their powers in this matter by
means of this election but thai
this might give the board DELL
mite insight into the attitude of the
Brawley division upon which they
might base future action.
While the date for this election
was not officially set at this meet
ing it is understood that in al
probability it will be held mex
Monday. Expenses for this election
are to be borne by the BraWleJ
division,