Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-09

case OF y. II. NrdlldSHSI against tic Sies
of jefferson, In favor of the defendant
Mr.. Gallagher, the plaintiff, is give1
twenty days in which to file bond FOL
an appeal to the supreme court. Thi
was a very hard-fought case, the ques
.tion at issue being as to whether the
city had the right to excavate the nortl
side of the Gallagher domain to bring
the sidewalk clown to grade, when by Sc
doing the trees skirting the lots would
in all probability be killed The decis
ion holds they have this right and tina
their action preliminary to ordering thi.
work done was legal and In proper form
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THE SUFFRAGE QUESTION.
Rockford Registei..l
And now Mrs. Clara Belle Brown. OF
Washington, has invaded Iowa to lee
ture and break up the women's suffrage
organization. Dear. dear. what trouble
there is! Better the whole. OF them
suffrage and anti-suffrage-ge get back to
their homes, look after their kids and
make home pleasant for husband and
family.
IKeokuk Gate City.]
The campaign for woman suffrage in
this state is beginning to warm up a
bit. In its issue for the current month
the Woman's Stanadrd, the official or.
gan Of the suffragists, says OF Mrs
Clara Belle Brown. who is at the head OF
the movement Of Iowa women in opposi-
ton to suffrage:
'.She Is a traitor to womankind.
She is a foe to purity in politics and
righteousness; in public Office,
She is the enemy OF temperance and
the home.
"she is the friend of the canteen and
the saloon.
'.She is the ally of the Tammany kind
OF men and politics.
..She has the Chinese view Of women,
the medieval view of war. and believes
in the subsection of women to the gov
eminent and service Of men.
''She Is bislated being, atavistic men
tally and belongs to the fourteenth CEN
tury.
Such Is Clara Belle Brown from the
equal suffrage and temperance point of
view"
If we see these things In the green
tree what may we expect of the dry ?
Is it by the manifestation Of envy. NAL
ice and all Observation-Disclosures that women
who are clarnoring for the ballot, In OPP
position to the best judgmen Mt and wish
es of large majority Of their sex, ex-
pect to demonstrate to the world their
fitness for the elective franchise and the
wisdom OF granting it to them? Mrs.
Brown has the same right to oppose
woman suffrage as the woman suffra-
gists have to favor 1t. and her character
and motives should be as far above sus-
nicion ard as free from attack as theirs
The issue is the broad principle of ex-
tension OF the frarchise-.not whether
Mrs. Brown is a traitor or even "a be-
lated being, atavistic mentally" six CEN
turtles behind the times. Discussion to
be edifying and profitable should deal
with the right and expediency of equal
suffrage, and not be allowed to degener-
ate into exhibitions of ilj-temper and
diatribes OF personal abuse. The good
women represented by the Standard will
only injure their cause by giving their
campaign at the outset trend in the
latter direction. II such are to be their
tactics they will need to be saved from
themselves.
THE GOVERNOR AND THE BOARD
OF CONTROL.
Esprit Lake Beacon.J
-Four years ago the legislature
stripped the. governorship OF the moiety
Of its powers. The larger part of the
duties which belonged to the Office were
to the board Of control The
state institutions were transferred al
most bodily"
These are the opening sentences in
a Sunday editorial in the Cedar Rapids
under the caption: RE
create the Governorship.' 1t would be
to read a bill of particu-
lars submitted In support of this state
ment. 1t may be that with the COVER
nor of Iowa is not lodged powers fully
consistent with executive authority.
II might b.. that the stale would profit
by the enlargement OF executive pre-
rogative. But 1t will be none the less
difficult to prove that executive pow
ers have been contracted by the insti-
tuition of the board of control
The powers vested in the board Of
control We're hitherto exercised by the
boards of trustees and in
officials. The governor APP
pointed no trustees save those for the
soldiers home, and these were subject
20 legislative approval. The legisla-
.ure elected all the trustees with this
and also the wardens of the
The legislature sur
rendered all these with other powers
IF it's own to the board of control and
edged its appointment with the gov
.rnor. The act creating the new sys-
.em says specifically:
Nothing herein contained shall limit
he general supervisory or examining
bowers vested in the governor by the
hat are vested by him in any com
nittee appointed by him."
The authority of the governor is
written all over and thru the act.
No expenditure for travelling to 9TH
II states by any member of the board
II anybody under it's direction is per-
nitted without the written approval
". the governor.
The expense bills of the board, its
and employees must have
he written audit of the governor.
The board must report to the COVER
Tor as to any wrongs or abuses alleged
o exist in the state institutions under
is control.
The board may fix salaries Of officers
md employees of institutions only with
written approval of the governor.
The governor appoints members Of
he board. by and with the approval