| Show I I I i I j I A I A G has Ned added nothing a to his hi aa Ii lawyer lawet i or as a man lIa of ut common bar W b bin hia opinion to the hip effect tn t ta a majority of or aH all alf the members nt elected e t d te Is to Oil flU a vacancy ey in a city council V M Mr V dov such an minion m Mt to Ia an a hv Ilk from tI Prove The circumstances are theae thene V J was elected 14 the tu Pro Provo vo TO council a a a at t JP 0 Uon teat last November sa w oha iago ago 11 M that h hip cial JJ ST r feTed t too I en n ah with his private duties el elfr Mr fr Harding ed from the council Thi council oeo consisted poud prior prIer to t his Sa rear ig atton of Sire Ave ve and v The t e 1 5 of et 1 Mr 1 gave ve the Democrats ts a 11 major ajor majority ity It of one oae end nd they immediately pro proceeded p to 10 S Democrat Bott Bolt to fill the vacancy ft Jt III this thin election eJection Ion that tNt Mr r n ls i illegal mep We doubt tat If It ne be aa md hd any warrant nt ia Ie law tot for big hi opinion ion He certainly can calf UI none non in common cloon sense ee fe It to Is not ht t to accuse e a high h state of partisan ism urn in such snob a matter but we e are strongly ot othe the opinion PIon n that if ife one oje Dem Democrat De 1 had voted tar far I the me af et 10 the Republican bIte mInority thus thua u giving the Republican candidate Jive five votes out of the total of nine nin east cast Mr Vr Broaden eede would have found no fault with the election If Mr Breed theory bis theory to ft It wool have b v been en next to I imp a tM an the m In the tM Pr o As a matter of fact tact Mr Bott re rec c ei ive majority tf of all 11 I s vOtes vote t that could legally O be east cut Suppose the Ute va vacancy cancy had not been beeD ailed Would Mr r re Broaden contend e d that ft 4 votes would w not be he a sufficient number nu to transact say any costing coming properly the council fl The JIbe Sheets case e which he be cites dt in ia support Ort of his contention ia Is Isby by no moans means a parallel for tor the good pod and sufficient reason that there were were i fifteen votes in f he bs aIt It Las Laft 1 I council and Mr f Sheets on V a ion prop propof y If lr seven of them It ban haa b been argued arau that the Demo Democrat crat have elected a can canto to succeed Mr r Harding Hardie Well Such auch a astep aI astep step tep might have ve been good ethics but it eMeld Id certainty not have aYe been n f e I politics politic Nor Nai have we any alY example e mple of that sort from fro our OW Republican friends Ho We less isis a party Pirt IV loader leader than t Wells Wella has baa In Iii the past appointed Republicans U to succeed s Democrats who have buve buver ve r and the t Republicans R pester gener generally ally in this state have not pot failed to tou take u advantage a at oL similar u |
