10 Colo. App. 472 | Colo. Ct. App. | 1897
delivered the opinion of the court.
The force and effect of these suggestions is very apparent from what is exhibited by this record. It would appear that there were no votes cast for any nominees except those of the People’s Party and of the Democratic Party; no other party was represented, and no other party nominated a ticket. It was assumed by the other political organizations that the statutory power conferred upon the governor to appoint a commissioner to fill the vacancy, who should hold office until the general election, or until his successor was duly elected and qualified, covered the precise case, gave the governor power to act, and that his appointment regularly filled the office. How broad and general this impression was we cannot discover. Evidently it had its influence on the voters and this proceeding would seem to be an irregular one, and an attempt on the part of this self-constituted committee, with no authority, except that which they assumed, to put into the vacant position a person who was not regularly voted for by the people. So far as we can see this committee did not represent any party nor any convention for the purpose for which they attemptéd to act, and were no more the representatives of the People’s Party than the three tailors were the representatives of the people of England.
Under the election law of 1891 conventions are given cer
Reversed.