| Show Look Don't imagine for a moment you are not bein watched for you are a strict ing of all your transactions will be you do that is creditable will be credited to and what is otherwise you will surely have to You are asked to pass a most pernicious measure that is marked under an appearance of fairness that extending the term and increasing the pay of certain county also increasing the salaries of some state the latter being not so free from censure as former and yet not without its objectionable The proposition to extend the term of sheriff and county clerk was up last and it passed the but the Senate had sense enough to kill now it bobs up again in the same company with a provision for a big raise in the enlarged term to embrace the present which is plainly and the whole thing is The present terms are long In the absence of the county officers should be held on short periods of so that when their service is unsatisfactory their employers will not have to wait long to effect a and two years is If at the end of each the service being the incumbent seeks a he can generally get so that he as well as the public are thus fairly dealt As to the salary there is not one of the county officers that cannot be replaced by those equally at any for just what is paid In this particularly where the pay of the sheriff is with big rake-offs from feeding the proposal to enlarge it is and the others are well enough Just when we are asked to stand the expense of a cap-itol building and for a blowout at the San Francisco with other big expenses looming is a mighty poor time to talk raising salaries already big Don't do it |
