Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-14
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By BOOTH HARRINGTON,

HARPER & BROTHERS.
tried the case of Happy Fear in ad-
vance, had convicted and condemned
and every day grew more bitter. Nor
was the urgent vigor of its attack with
out effect.
Sleepy as Main street seemed in the
heat, the town was incensed and rous.
ed to tensity of feeling it had not
known since the civil war, when, on
occasion, it had set out to hang half
dozen knights of the Golden Circle"
Joe had been Kissed on the street
many times since the inimical clerk
had whistled at him. Probably dem
onstrations of that sort would have
continued had he remained in Canaan,
but for almost month he had been
absent and his office closed, its thresh.
old gray with dust. There were peo'
pie who believed that he had run
away again. this time never to return,
among those who held to this opinion
being Mrs. Louden and her sister, Joes
step-aunt. Upon only one point was
everybody agreed-that twelve men
could not be found in the county who
could be so far persuaded and befud.
died by Louden that they would dare
allow Happy Fear to escape. The
women of Canaan, incensed by the ter
rible circumstances Of the case, as the
Tocsin colored TIA man shot down In
the act Of begging his enemy's >for-
Unconstitutional as loudly as the
men. There was only the difference
that the latter vociferated for the
hanging of Happy; their good ladies
used the word punishment"
And yet, while the place rang with
condemnation Of the little man In the
JAN and his attorney, there were voices
here and there uplifted on the other
side. People existed, it astonishingly
appeared, who liked Happy Fear.
These were for the greater part OBJ
scure and even darkling in their lives,
yet quite demonstrably human beings,
able to smile, suffer, leap, run and to
entertain fancies; even to have. ac.
cording to their degree, certain rudi.
mentary sense of right and wrong, In
spite Of which they strongly favored
the prisoners acquittal. Precisely on
that account, it was argued. an &C.
quittal would outrage Canaan and lay
It open to untold danger. Such people
needed lesson. u
The Tocsin interviewed the towns
great ones, printing their opinions OF
the Nervousness of the crime and the
character of the defendants lawyer.
seThe Hon. p. ]. PARROT, who so ably
represented this county in the legisla-
ture some fourteen years ago, could
scarcely restrain himself when ap-
preached by reporter as to his senti.
ments anent the repulsive deed. i
should like to know how long Canaan
is going to put up with this sort OF
business, were his words. I am law
abiding citizen, and / have served
faithfully and with my full endeavor
and ability to enact the laws and
statutes OF my state, but there Is
point in my patience, would state,
which lawbreakers and their lawyers
may not safely pass. OF what use are
our most solemn enactments, may
even ask of what use Is the legislature
itself, chosen by the will Of the people,
If they are to ruthlessly be set aside by
criminals. and their shifty protectors!
Tho blame should be put upon the law
yers who by tricks enable such rascals
to escape the rigors of the carefully en-
acted laws, the fruits Of the solon's
labor, more than upon the criminals
themselves. In this case II there Is
any miscarriage Of justice will say
here and now that in my opinion the
people of this county will be sorely
tempted, and. while do not believe in
lynch law, yet If that should be the
result 1t is my unalterable conviction
that the vigilantes may well turn their
attention to the lawyers or lawyer who
brings about such miscarriage. I am
sick Of it,"
The Tocsin did not print the inter-
view it obtained from Louie Farbach-
the same Louie Farbach who, long ago
had owned beer saloon with little
room behind the bar, where a shabby
boy sometimes played dominoes and
seven up with loafers: not quite the
same Louie Farbach. however, in out.
ward circumstance, for he was now the
brewer Of Farbach beer and making
Canaan famous. His rise had been
Teutonic and sure, and he contributed
one-twentieth Of his income to the Ger
man Orphan asylum and one-tenth to
his party's campaign fund. The twen-
tieth saved the orphans from the coun-
ty, while the 1.-THE gave the county to
his party.
He occupied a kitchen chair, enjoy
ing the society of some chickens in a
wired Enclosure behind the new Italian
villa he had erected in that part Of
Canaan where he would be most un-
comfortable, and he looked woodenly
at the reporter when the latter put his
question.
"Hef you any Acquaintance of Mister
Fear?" he inquired in return. with no
expression decipherable either upon
his Gargantuan face or in his heavily
EMBODIED eyes.
mo, sir" replied the reporter, grin
ming. II never ran across him."
dot ISIS goot ting fer you" said
Mr.. Farbach stonily. HE iss not Q
man poebles bedder try to run across.