| Show A BOGUS JUSTICE UNDER the decisions of the third district courtine Cour tone of which to ia appealed broo i the supreme court of the territory 1 t and under it a d decision of the latter court which settles the general principle involved six of the present al lebed city councilors councillors Counci lors are occupying places to which they were not elected the people of each municipal ward or precinct are entitled by law to elect the municipal off officers leers for that ward or precinct these incumbents claim their places under the vote of the en tire city and the provisions of a law that was obsolete when they were elected that is a specimen of liberal law and liberal politics also an exhibition of the respect which liberals pay for the rulings of courts of course there is nothing new in all this but there is something connected with it that seems to have escaped general notice the same law jaw which provides that councilmen shall be elected by the voters in each ward in cities of the first class also provides that each ward shall elect its own justice of the peace As two wards have been so far cheated out of their legal representation in the city council so they have been hitherto swindled out of their legally elected jus tim of the peace there is something more the jus ties tice selected to sit as police magistrate and who seems to have done very well in many respects is now absent his place is filled by a person who has no lawful right to act in it mr keeler kawler ca comes mes from the third precinct to act in the fifth he was waa not elected by the voters of that precinct therefore he him haa no legal right to the office 0 of f justice in any precinct we do not say his official acts are void he appears as the do de facto facio officer but it was bad taste to say the least to push forward into this important position a person who while I 1 possessing no special qualifications for that office has no legal right to it if the judicial decisions mentioned above areef any value but this iti id another indication of Ll liberal beral respect for public decency and the rulings of the J judiciary clary |
