A Politically Charged Appointment in Olympia

As our readers are aware, the office of Superintendent of Indian Affairs has been conferred upon B. F. Kendall, Esq. As a Republican, we assert that Mr. Kendall is entirely destitute of any claim, and that he individually participated in Democratic precinct meetings in this place in June 1860. In this Territory, up to the time of his leaving, he avowed that he was a Democrat and expected to die a Democrat. He never dared to avow sympathy with Republicanism until after the Presidential election, and he has yet to cast his first vote in favor of their candidates. Here, in his own town, he cannot get a corporal's guard to support him for the humblest office. We do not believe Mr. Kendall the proper man for the place. In this juncture of our Territorial affairs, when our large bands of Indians are seriously disaffected at delays in paying their annuities, the Nez Perces on the eve of a rupture in consequence of the flocking in to their country of so many miners, we need a man our people have confidence in. A man who unhesitatingly changes his party to obtain office and enrich himself is not to be trusted.