From: laro@idworld.net   
      
   "Steve Grimm"  wrote in message   
   news:109lkkc3p5o6de9@news.supernews.com...   
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   > "Gerald Clough"  wrote in message   
   news:IrGdndxSzNyTXwfdRVn-hg@texas.net...   
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   > > > Were town marshals in the West typically elected or appointed? City   
   constables   
   > > > (or chiefs) were appointed while county sheriffs were elected, right?   
   > >   
   > > Depends on where you might be. Town marshals might be elected or hired.   
   > > Likewise, city constables. Various states use different titles, and   
   > > within one state, different types of cities (four different types in   
   > > Texas) may operate under different rules.   
   >   
   > I don't doubt what you wrote, but sometimes people get confused thinking a   
   marshal or constable was   
   > elected when they were appointed.  You will see that  a marshal won by a   
   margin of 123 to 64, but this is the vote of the city   
   > officials making it an appointment and not an election.  A minor point in   
   terminology maybe.   
   >   
      
   Well, Steve, Gerald is certainly giving you the straight scoop, certainly   
   the way it   
   is today.  Old West days, I can't say.  But your figures are for which   
   municipality?   
   I'm still trying to come to grips with a city in the Old West that had 197   
   Voting   
   city officials?   Wasn't Tombstone, was it?  That sounds more like the Bird   
   Cage   
   crowd on a Saturday night.   
      
   "Six cribs, no waiting!"   
      
   In any case, I vote for our Constable every local election year!   Far as I   
   know,   
   it's always been that way.  Course I'm not that old... :-)   
      
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