Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-14
"a BAs LIE REPuBLl0uE.,

ITO SGuetl Iletkiill Ilt1up!iIeill u,
much exercised over the removal of the
Marengo mayor who was convicted Of
drunkenness and set aside under the
Cosson removal law. The Republican
sees subversioin of popular rights in
the removal. 1t believes "the people Of
Marengo might have been trusted 20
defeat him for office" and is ready "to
give up the republic" quit having cleo
tons and 'look to Des Moines for
government"
In order that bygones may be by
cones let us refrain from suggesting
that 1t were as we'll to look to Des
Moines as to Burlington for govern
ment and that the Republican has
never been troubled with near sight in
the matter of government" that gov
,erned according to its desire or adj
vantage. Let's let that so with the by
gones Also let us in the interests of
complete and pleasing harmony put
aside the suspicion that the Republican
hates the removal law more because
it dislilkes the attorney general most;
that anything that might array any
class, crowd or faction against Web
Byers and Webs probable future in
to do business with. Let US stay away
from all discord. The piano has been
tuned. Be easy with it,
However few will be able to agree
with the Republican that the consul
tuition follows the Turing trail of a
drunken mayor and that freedom
shrieked and expired when the Ma
rengo mayor fell. She didn't even
squeak. She smiled in approval of the
faces of the people of Iowa and said
\ good radiance to bad rubbish Lii
cellse screamed and scratched like a
drunken scarlet woman in the hands of
the police. License is raving now and
swearing like a pirate in her cell. The
republic is going on, government at
Washington and Des :Moines still lives
and nobody is particularly sorry for
the drunken mayor who lost his office
because of his own weakness and hab-
its of disrepute except the mayor him
self, the Cedar Rapids Republican and
few others who fear the law as indi-
viduals and whose business is ecceler-
ated by mayors who favor drunkenness
in themselves and in others.
And let US keep on having elections
government because one crooked little
pinion must be removed and replaced
with another wheel that will run true
Anyway why make so much fuss over
the removal from office of a man who
gets drunk and shanes public decency
Why. tall" over backward and allege
that the world has come to an end be-
cause plain DRINKS, if they happen to
be mayors must face inquiry as the
plain drunk who isn't a mayor must
face the police court.
1t is to be feared that the Repup-
lican is growing emotional, even musn-
lily emotional. But it is not to be con-
ceded that it's emotion is primarily
aroused by the woeful case of the vot-
ers of Marengo who have been de-
frauded of their right to elect and re-
tain a drunken man as representative
of their city. They don't feel that way
They are glad he is ousted The Re
publican doesn't care whoop one way
or another. From neighboriy ex-
perience and association with the Re-
pubhcanis editorial page, 10, these
many years, it might be asserted that
the Republican would be tickled nearly
ITO death over the dumping of a drunk
ard out OF an office ne disgraces-it
Web Bye1s and the Cosson laws were
not acting as ushers.
Anyhow let us keep ON with the re-
public Let's avoid chaos and anarchy
Let's have at least another biennia
election and see if we don't feel better