Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-04-19
Important Decisions

Important Decisions
Gx1o following noses q cases are
Srom tho West Publishing Company,
CORRUPT PoLTICs.
- recent case entitled Ford VI. Hop
k1ns,i Isl Southwestern Reporter, b42,
br1ngf 70 Light almost every Imaginable
device known to the corrupt politician
70 attain the desired election result.
1 Ono ground for contest is that the re-
h publican managers induced one Brown
20 run - q democratic candidate, and
70 adopt as his emblem the usual en-
blem OF the democratic party, a game
cock: this being done to mislead the
nltterate democratic voters, who, being
IN the habit Of voting under the en-
II blem Of their party. would do 30 in this
case when they saw the rooster. and, as
. result. their votes would be diverted
from the fusion ticket, to the manifest
advantage Of the republican candidates
Fraud and bribery ruled the, day, and
\ We're as openly carried on by all par
ties and with as little apparent desire
6or concealment as religious services
are conducted in chur9hs& One party
was as guilty as the ott@ b. tho the re-
publican party, which Was victorious,
had the largest corruption fund. The
Kentucky court Of appeals says:
There d no room in this case for the
4 philosophy of the political casuist, who
having accepted money from both sides
Cor his vote. jusufies his finally voting
Tor the one who paid the smaller sum
by saying that he desired to uphold the
party which was least corrupt There
~ no more dangerous enemy to gov
i ernment by the people than the crime
or bribery. The corrupt use of money
not only saps the moral integrity of the
weak and vacillating, but 1t discoura9es
the upright and strong A good citizen
can not well be blamed il he ceases to
be interested in an election where his
vote can count for nothing, or be Off
set by the vote OF the purchased chat
tel OF the political corrupt1onist." The
judgment of the trial court setting
aside the election as invalid was af- 4
firrned.
PRAYING NOT PRAcr1cING.
The statute OF California contains
an act for the regulation OF the prac.
ttee Of medicine. concluding with a nro.
ytso that nothing herein shall be held
to apply or to regulate any kind Of
treatment by prayer" In Elk narte
Bohannon, Ill Pacific Reporter. 1893.
the validity Of the statute is assailed
on claim that the exemption quoted
makes che whole act unconstitutional
because 1t gives to those. who treat
pnys1cA Ills by prayer privileges and
immunifes not granted to all citizens.
The court OF appeals holds that, If this
can De regarded an immunity, the act
allows every person such immunity. for
every one has the same privilege or
practtcing such treatment, so the stat
ute IS not unconstitutional. Quoting
the court: 1T has been said More
things are wrought by prayer than this
world dreams Of Those who believe
In the teachings of holy writ attach
great importance to the efficacy Of
PRAYER. Many examples of 1t are given
In the New Testament. For instance,
where Peters wife's mother lay sick Of
8 fever we are told that the Saviour
touched her hand and the fever left her
and she arose and ninistered unto
them The proviso or exception was
evidently put into the act to p,event
/ any fnterference with the right OF any
one to pray for the sick and afflicted. .,
II 81 AND RIHI EsON BALLOT.
A 1ecfiltAr election contest 10 found
in Conley VS.. Hardwick. 1872 South
western Reporter, 40. At local OPP
tfon election in Powell county, Ken
lucky, on each OF the ballots used there
was placed over the word Eyes" (the
local option side) an open book, with
the words Holy Bible" printed across
Its face, and over the NO (the side
opposed to local option) a whisky bottle
and a glass beside it, with the head Of
snake protrllding from the mouth of
the bottle. A number OF voters testi-
fled that they voted dry because they
could not go against the bible. One
negro said: Il had to vote under the
bible: the Lord God Almighty would
strike me dead If hadn't" Other evil
dence was introduced that one of the
clerks Of election said to the negro
voters as they approached: IT you
want TO 90 TO hell, vote under the
snake; II you don't vote under the
btble,' The court Of appeals of Ken
lucky holds that q ballot is a means de-
vised by law to secure fair express
sion Of the will of the people, and 1t |
should never contain devices that give
to one side an undue advantage over
the other. In this case the device used
gave to those favoring prohibition the
sanction Of the word of God. while 1t
held up to those on the other side all
of the ynspeakable horrors OF delirium
trennens. Since the use of Tire emblems
materially affected the result Of the
election, they were improper and abso-
lutely inexcnsable. and rendered the
& election invalid.
J. stalking Out Boundary.
ThA Canadian Shoundarv nreaants fte
idiosyncrasies and eccentricities The
eastern part Of It follows naturally and
spontaneously the regular water line
formed by the Great Lakes and their
outlets Thence from the Lake Of the
Woods on the north Of Minnesota a
more direct course, man made and
.saac1, nicai In &alen thru f1,o .,uilGar.