Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-07

ALSe 10 NAVE CT ASeiSl as SocNs ~ p.
mary law as clashing opinions and in
Chronicle. 1--WE have no faith and little
hope that the change will bring more
good than evil"
Remarking that 1t is said that ~ per
cent of the teachers who took the eX-
animation before the state board of
education failed to secure the certifi-
Gates for which they applied, the
Hampton Recorder asks: LAS the
questions were not particularly diff
cult, is the result not a reflection on
the school system for which the people
are making such liberal appropria-
tons? If these young men and wom-
en-, after years of study, are unable to
pass the examinations prepared when
there is shortage in teachers. it does
seem as If our schools are not doing
what they should do
"rhe legislature had better put an
embalming clause in that perfect pri-
mary bill, for the thing will be found
to be rotten as soon as passed. We
can hardly wait for this ideal legisla-
tive enactment BAH" says the dis
gruntled Clarksville Star. still squeam-
ish from primary defeat Of recent
date.
The Hampton Chronicle has observ-
ed that "a baby is about the only pre-
cious thing a woman possesses that
doesn't excite the envy of other wom-
en-"
Referring to Roosevelt's uncompro-
missing attitude, irrespective of his pop
ularity or unpopularity. the Cedar Rap
ids Republican says: I'VE do not want
that kind Of a man in the presidents
chair all the time, to be sure, but oc-
casonally there is an official house
cleaning necessary, and such a clean
ing can not be accomplished under men
If the type of the late President Me
Kinley. 1t needs something of the
cowboy strain In man to do that sort
of work"
mo" insists the Scranton Journal,
mot all men are in the market Men
who set up the claim that all men are
creatures of merchandise, reason from
diseased brain or disordered stom-
ach. There are men who as members
Of legislative bodies sell their services
and votes as really as merchants sell
calico, but they are the exceptions.
There are scores Of men who will go
upon the witness stand and deliberate
ly perjure themselves-but this is the
exception and not the rule"
To the Hardin County Citizen ut n
pretty evident that the standpatters are
going to fight a straight primary law.
Last winter" it recalls, part of them
We're openly against such a law, and
part of them claimed they wanted such
a law, but every measure that came up
did not suit them. This winter they
are all going to claim that they want
such law, and then kick on every
specific measure that promulgates a
straight primary law. Perhaps they
want to go thru another 1906 fight"
suggests the Citizen. IF they do, this
paper is in favor of them having their.
wants gratified. There Is nothing like
a man having what he wants."
Just why every bum, thug and plug
ugly, swindler and murderer, should
have the right Of unlimited appeal from
adverse decisions Of the courts, even
when the merits of the case are clear
and appeal must be taken on techni-
calities, while the state can take no APP
peal and can make no motion for new
trial, is past our comprehension"
breaks out the Traer Star Clipper.
eve are heartily in sympathy with the
proposition that appellate courts shall
make no reversals and grant no new
trials on technical grounds except when
1t is clear that substantial injustice has
resulted, but why not give the state
equal chance to show miscarriage of
justice and secure reversal or retrial?"